dinnerware

I own $10 dinnerware (and very cheap shoes) but the notion that fine dinnerware is the reductio ad absurdum of materialism gets to me.

You can rent all kinds of tools from Home Depot, and there are lots of places which rent dinnerware.

Folks used pots for tens of thousands of years, and used them mostly like disposable dinnerware.

My father has some plastic camping dinnerware that has been heavily used since the 60's.

There are ways to fix this, from waste disposal fees to dinnerware subscription services[1].

If you eat in a restaurant or at a house you are more likely to have reusable options available (ie washable plates and dinnerware).

Despite a significant language barrier my mother tried to explain the dinnerware was unbreakable and they didn't need to worry about it too much.

After dinner was served we went around and collected the used dinnerware from the patrons there.

You can even replace human-centric objects with ones that are both human-friendly and robot-friendly (say, dinnerware that the dishwasher can easily grasp, move and clean).

Why to scale from 20 to 200 engineers we only need to add more tubes and none of that pesky dinnerware!

No, someone fell on broken dinnerware and received a cut(s).

Specialised treatments are the ultimate consumable - like fine porcelain dinnerware, what was once available only to the wealth gradually becomes more affordable to more people.

I cannot take anyone seriously who thinks people care about "Made in USA" more than $10 sweatshirts and $50 dinnerware sets.

"Run the program" is eventually generalized into "Run the $1" and someone assigns it "plate", and I as an i18n end user obtain to rotate apertures on escaping dinnerware.