It isn’t THE solution, it is A solution. The title is wrong.

Put a high upper limit only. Don’t touch the bottomline.

For example, no more than 4 cars per person: Average Joe won’t even know this rule exists but it will still reduce mineral mining due to people who collect cars.

Possible problems with my shitty example: Now a car is a controlled substance. Who decides the limit and how? What if there is a mental disease (with a better example this would make more sense) which requires a person to have 20 cars?

“Germany bans this already illegal thing”… So they double banned it?

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