Show 893: Something Innocuous in the Sitcom Credits

You go back with your empty recyclable plastic bottles to the shop now.

You put them in a machine, and it gives you a voucher for your deposit, and you're supposed to spend it in there on more bottles.

So you buy more bottles, and you pay a deposit on them, and then you go back with the empty bottles later, and you put them in the machine, and it gives you another voucher, and you spend that there.

You never get out of it.

One day you're going to die.

No matter how efficient you are, you're going to have some empty bottles in your house in a bag somewhere, waiting until there's enough for your next trip to the bottles deposit system, and you're never going to get that back.

Whoever's in charge of your estate isn't going to go into the house and say, "Oh, there's a load of bottles there.

There's not enough really to be bringing down to the shop.

It's only half a bag.

It'd be wasteful to go down with half a bag.

As this person's executor, I'm not going to bring half a bag of bottles down to the supermarket.

That's a waste of fuel to go down and drastic.

I'll be charging the fuel to their estate, obviously.

So that'd be wasteful and irresponsible.

So no, I'll just chuck them in the bin." No matter how good you are with your bottle recycling, you're going to end up losing out at the end of your life.

There's gonna be half a bag there that you never get your deposit back on, and whoever owns this deposit system is going to profit from that.

It's like a second death tax.

It's a stealth tax on you.

I suppose it wouldn't really worry you that much.

You'll be dead, and may you rest in peace.

So I suppose there's no point worrying about these things.