Ick! It just feels crappy and bad and cheap. Plastic things make creaky noises and fall apart, and they feel bad to interact with. Idk if it’s a sensory thing or I’m just an asshole, but I fully believe that under FALGSC I would never have to touch this shit.
They don’t make glass and metal TV remotes or game controllers. I can never replace my Kindle Oasis because every other e-reader is made of the cheapest, worst plastic.
How can I just …not have to touch plastic anymore?
Right? There are so many different kinds of plastics, and they don’t all have the same undesirable properties that capitalism optimizes for. So I would expect that even under a different economic model in a more advanced future, we would still have a considerable amount of plastic. It might have a very different composition and purpose and lifecycle, but you wouldn’t get to stop interacting with it.
It would be pretty tough to never need plastics of any sort. I’m fine with it being around in places where the properties of the material make it genuinely the best choice. I just want most of the household things we use and touch daily to be not plastic.
there are even valid single use scenarios (most examples that spring to mind are medical waste) but yes that was where I landed