Name: EconPop - WALL-E的經濟效益 (EconPop - The Economics of WALL-E)
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Hey there, Captain. President Heaton here.

After we sent off your ship, we realized we could use the infinite energy drive and

super robots we built your vessel with to clean up the planet.

I mean clearly if we can build flying solar-powered laser robots we can figure

Our bad. Sorry. Hopefully, you haven't been drifting through space for seven hundred

Oh, also, according to our calculations human life on your spaceship will become

unsustainable once your robot's achieve sentience and

Now, if you'll excuse me, technology has become so

awesome in your absence that I'm gonna go play X-Box with a holographic dolphin and

Hello! I'm Andrew Heaton and you're watching EconPop,

the show that scans the ravage wasteland of a popular culture to find the seedling of

Today were diving into my favorite romantic film, WALL-E.

Of course, the fact that I can only relate to the romantic feelings of a cartoon

just to robo romcom. It's also a tragedy. A tragedy

of the Commons. WALL-E opens in a post-apocalyptic landscape of abandoned

rusting machines and towering piles of garbage but this isn't modern-day

It's Detroit in the year twenty seven hundred. Or it could be.

In Pixar's vision of the future, the entire earth has been transformed into a

ravaged by pollution and the excesses of consumerism.

What you know, rising toxicity levels have made life unsustainable on Earth.

But it isn't all doom and gloom on Planet Pixar. WALL-E has an adorable,

He has a hobby collecting shiny junk. He even has a VHS copy of the 1969 musical,

Hello Dolly. Which he learns essential life skills like dancing,

Now, WALL-E the robot is a technological wonder just as WALL-E the movie is an

However, the film's dystopian vision of overpopulation, resource depletion and

is centuries old and has been repeatedly refuted.

Too much garbage in your face? There's plenty of space out in space.

BNL Starliners leaving each day. We'll clean up the mess while you're away.

For example, in the 1890s economists predicted that if New

it would literally drown in pony poop in 30 years. Back then, shipping,

transportation, and glue production all relied on horsepower.

Experts envisioned canals of manure criss-crossing Manhattan and

exorbitant still prices to boot. But they failed to imagine automobiles

and electric streetcars and flying recliners, which as everyone who has watched

will be an integral part of our future transportation infrastructure.

Humans are great at projecting today's problems into tomorrow,

but we're terribly at foreseeing the solutions we will ultimately come up with

USB drives have saved more trees in the last 10 years than Arbor Day campaigns have.

History teaches us that technological progress doesn't just make us richer it

Does that mean everything's hunky-dory? Not quite.

In real life, we do see garbage in gutters and public parks and

pretty much every reality television program. Yet you hardly ever see litter in

Why? In a nutshell people tend to take better care of things they own.

Have you ever washed a rental car. Not me. I use rental cars to transport exotic

I don't clean up after the emu when I'm done. Whenever one owns something collectively

nobody has an incentive to take personal responsibility for it.

Imagine a common room in a dormitory or the stairwell at

Earth's orbit is littered with space junk. Nobody owns the exosphere so

When a resource is commonly shared there's nothing to stop me

or you or anyone from exploiting it. This is known as The Tragedy of the

everyone takes nobody has an incentive to be a steward. The result is a world

And it's in trouble. I can't just sit here and

do nothing. That's all I've ever done. That's all anyone on this blasted ship has ever done.

One solution is to introduce private property rights.

Logging companies don't cut down their trees without planting new ones.

Cows are plentiful despite the popularity of hamburgers.

Whereas lions and unicorns are in danger.

Property and the opportunity to profit from it

actually promote sustainability. Another big theme in WALL-E is consumerism.

You can feel free to lambast consumerism if you're watching this

do it yourself hand-carved on Amish smartphone. Otherwise, let's just admit we

There's nothing wrong with buying books or shoes or fun movies about robots.

Do I believe that gadgets are the most important thing in life?

No. Am I glad I have a microwave? Of course.

I'm a bachelor. I would starve to death without one but the film imagines that

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