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| Topic | Do you agree with those nyc sanitation workers throwing out all that produce? |
| Zeus 10/02/21 9:24:42 PM #21: | adjl posted... Which is why I'm baffled by the people that genuinely expect businesses to enact mask mandates and the like of their own volition. In truth, I'm guessing most of them don't actually expect them to and are just saying that because they want masks to go away and they want to pretend they have a nobler guiding principle than that, but it's still a blatantly absurd suggestion. ...what? ParanoidObsessive posted... The entire economic system period is built around the idea of waste. We're a conspicuous consumerist society with planned obsolescence as a common business model. While waste is a byproduct of consumerism (and industry in general), it's a FUNCTION of the food economy >_> adjl posted... Taking such measures to secure dumpsters is overwhelmingly a matter of making sure people pay for the products on the shelves instead of "stealing" something almost as good from the trash. Wha? ParanoidObsessive posted... It's part of what makes conservationist mandates to help combat climate change such an uphill battle - nearly every facet of modern existence is predicated on a complete lack of efficiency or resource responsibility/conservation. When it comes to efficiency regarding food, mistakes going over tend to be less disastrous than mistakes going under >_> --- (\/)(\/)|-| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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