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Playtime = 0?
Then player hasn’t played the game.
Duh.
Playtime = 0?
Then player hasn’t played the game.
Duh.
Sure, let’s work on it.
Believe it or not, I haven’t had any milk in years. I’ve probably had a few burgers and meatballs with spaghetti a few times over the years, but those meals have been few and far between.
Cattle products aren’t that important to me, I can do without. So yeah, fuckit, double the prices, might actually make people think twice…
Edit: I occasionally do eat pizza, so maybe a little more milk product in my diet, but even that isn’t often. Fuckit, I can give it up almost no problem, I’d just be sad to give up pizza…
That scenario doesn’t sound too far off base either. Still, nobody gonna bat an eye with a €0.10 increase, while either/or the government, the farmers, or the milk compamy CEO just gain profits.
I just see it as a gradual way to slowly increase prices, at such a slow rate that people don’t tend to care, while both the farmers and the government collect more profit.
Nothing will change with such a slow method. Wanna make a difference and make a real change, just double the price of milk and beef overnight.
I did some math and logistics on the subject. Rather than repost it again, I posted it as a top level comment in this thread.
Doesn’t Steam keep up with the amount of time people have played their games? Or is it up to the individual games to track that?
I have no idea to be honest, I don’t use Steam and haven’t purchased any games since the 90s…
Reposting my deeper level comment as a top level comment…
Let’s do some math here…
100 / 365 ≈ €0.274 per day.
You really think that’ll put much of a dent in a farmer’s wallet?
Let’s do some more math. Let’s say they raise the price of a gallon of milk by €0.10. Nobody will bat an eye, they’ll just chalk it up to general inflation.
A good healthy dairy cow produces ~ 9 gallons of milk per day.
So, €0.10 * 9 = €0.90 per day extra, per dairy cow. That would actually yield the farmer an actual net gain of ~ €0.626 per day, per cow, subtracting the daily tax.
That would actually end up with the farmer gaining ~ €228.50 per year per cow, after the tax.
Ain’t nobody gonna bat an eye if they raise the cost of milk by €0.10 per gallon. Nothing will change, except the farmers will jack the prices around just enough that nobody cares and they actually profit from it.
Let’s do some math here…
100 / 365 ≈ €0.274 per day.
You really think that’ll put much of a dent in a farmer’s wallet?
Let’s do some more math. Let’s say they raise the price of a gallon of milk by €0.10. Nobody will bat an eye, they’ll just chalk it up to general inflation.
A good healthy dairy cow produces ~ 9 gallons of milk per day.
So, €0.10 * 9 = €0.90 per day extra, per dairy cow. That would actually yield the farmer an actual net gain of ~ €0.626 per day, per cow, subtracting the daily tax.
That would actually end up with the farmer gaining ~ €228.50 per year per cow, after the tax.
Ain’t nobody gonna bat an eye if they raise the cost of milk by €0.10 per gallon. Nothing will change, except the farmers will jack the prices around just enough that nobody cares and they actually profit from it.
Cows don’t disappear when there’s less demand. Cows disappear when people eat them, if they’d just regulate the breeding side of the cattle industry.
Cows don’t just magically disappear when there’s less demand. They need to regulate the farmers cattle breeding rate, and place hefty fines on them for exceeding that rate.
A measly €100 per cow per year ain’t gonna do all that much, they can pay that off with just a few days worth of milk from the cow.
And then still turn around and jack the price of milk up beyond the rate of their losses, and the farmers might likely end up profiting even more, despite the tax.
The only practical way they’re gonna reduce emissions from cows is to reduce the number of cows. How do you do that? Place restrictions on farmers breeding cows, place hefty fines on farmers that exceed those restrictions, and eat more cows.
Taxing the farmers a measly €100 per year per cow isn’t gonna do all that much. You have any idea how much a good healthy cow is worth? Especially dairy cows, they just keep on delivering milk, for years.
That’s basically my point, taxing the farmers what adds up to chump change in the cattle industry is not going to reduce the number of cattle.
People pay ridiculous prices for name brand products that they don’t even need. $800 for a phone, no problem. $2500 for a TV, no problem.
If the little brats want some milk for their cereal, well mom is gonna just go out and buy a gallon of milk, even if it costs $20, just to shut the kids up.
Might as well throw common sense economics out the window when everyone and their cousin thinks they need that fancy 62 inch curved screen 8K television, PlayStation 5, the latest MacBook and iPhone, etc.
People piss money away on useless shit, you think the cost of a gallon of milk or a steak is gonna make a huge impact. Yeah sure, it’ll make a little impact, but I don’t think it’ll be as drastic of an impact as you’re thinking.
It’s called sarcasm.
That’s why I don’t buy shit I ain’t gonna use. Well, save for emergency supplies, I hope to never have to use those.
You wouldn’t? Good, more for me 👍
No, it’ll just end up raising the cost of milk and beef. The cows are still gonna fart and burp at the same rate, they don’t give a fuck about taxes.
I choke my turtle almost every day. It never fails to cough up this white creamy substance…
Ah yes, that’ll reduce emissions, TAXES!!!
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We do need some bananas for scale, yes.
The percentages of my math still add up. Who TF is gonna bat an eye at €0.10 or $0.10 price increase?