@breadandcircuses i work with plastics. Most things made out of metal are made of metal for a good reason these days. every material has limitations and best applications. That’s why i said i worry that we’ll see a rise in more environmentally difficult materials like carbon fiber. It’s a really good metal replacement in a lot of cases, but has been difficult to automate making it rarely cost effective. The rise of plastic use isn’t some grand conspiracy, it has advantages that people wanted to tap into (and externalizes many of its drawbacks to be problems for people not making those decisions). But without some kind of paradigm shifting technology, plastics use cannot grow exponentially for the next 25 years because we simply already use an absolute shitload of the stuff