I'm very impressed with your thinking korrosive. But we're all speaking in theoretical terms within the boundaries of our own experience. Only when your ideas are tried in the real world will we have the "proof of the pudding".
The main problem I see, speaking from my own experience, is that this really isn't feasible internationally (the scope of this forum) or nationally. It has to be implemented on a local level... within a 100 miles or less.
But the concept is transportable to all locales.
So I see the challenge as being creating the basic concept, addressing the problems that will arise in the course of implementing the concept, and making a knowledge base available to those who want to implement the concept in their particular location.
I don't think it's a matter of "herding" cats. I think it's more a matter of cats realizing it's in their best interest to cooperate. Not only is there leverage in larger quantities but there's value in a broader range of knowledge --something this forum makes abundantly clear. Scrap yards get better prices than we do because they deal in larger quantities and they have a direct line to better markets.
Isn't what we're talking about, essentially, a scrap yard by, for, and of the scrappers? Rather than one based on profit for a small circle of people? Call it what you will but wouldn't you rather get more profit from your sweat and give less of it to someone who simply takes what you have to sell and sells it to the highest bidder?
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