Carter Stevens started reselling discarded items from dumpsters around Nashville, Tennessee, in March 2024. Months earlier, he'd been living in his car.
He’s putting in the work for the “reuse” part of reduce, reuse, recycle. Calling that bottom feeding is pretty short sighted, there’s no reason to just throw away functional items.
Agh, a solid counter, i should have thought this through more thoroughly.
If you didn’t see it happen personally, it isn’t happening (obvious in hindsight)
That is my bad.
…wait…you don’t see many?
Implying a non-zero amount of occurrences when you did personally see a recycling centre going through your neighbours trash ?
…was it like a whole building transformer kind of deal or like a swarm of employees in uniform just sweeping over the adjacent land, clearing discarded re-usable materials, like recycling locusts?
Why do you look down on people who touch garbage as they work? PPE and bathing exist. It doesn’t taint someone or make them immoral to look through discarded items to find a new use for them.
Would you feel this way if he was just looking through Goodwill? Picking up ‘curb alert’ items (things discarded on the curb for trash pickup)? Is it the contact with a dumpster?
Is English your second language? When you use “bottom feeders” to refer to people that has a negative connotation:
bottom-feeder
noun
bot·tom-feed·er ˈbä-təm-ˌfē-dər
1: a fish that feeds at the bottom
2: one that is of the lowest status or rank
3: an opportunist who seeks quick profit usually at the expense of others or from their misfortune
1 clearly doesn’t apply, these are people. 2 doesn’t make sense as an objection against them doing it unless you hold lower ranking people in contempt, and 3 also shows a negative view of them. If you didn’t mean any of these things you should choose a different phrase. You can also explain what you actually meant, if you didn’t mean for what you said to have any negative connotations.
That’s good for him. But we are not going to normalize bottom feeding. Reign in the economy.
He’s putting in the work for the “reuse” part of reduce, reuse, recycle. Calling that bottom feeding is pretty short sighted, there’s no reason to just throw away functional items.
If you’re digging through trash you are a bottom feeder. It doesn’t matter how much money you make off it, you’re still bottom feeding.
That’s a really shitty take.
What a childish thing to say, and doubly so for typing it out. For shame. You poor thing.
Wahhh
Wish I was this certain about something.
No room for nuance or context?
Recycling centres, industrial composting from household food waste?
I don’t see many recycling centers digging through my neighbors trash.
Agh, a solid counter, i should have thought this through more thoroughly.
If you didn’t see it happen personally, it isn’t happening (obvious in hindsight)
That is my bad.
…wait…you don’t see many?
Implying a non-zero amount of occurrences when you did personally see a recycling centre going through your neighbours trash ?
…was it like a whole building transformer kind of deal or like a swarm of employees in uniform just sweeping over the adjacent land, clearing discarded re-usable materials, like recycling locusts?
Ok
I admit that’s funny
Why do you look down on people who touch garbage as they work? PPE and bathing exist. It doesn’t taint someone or make them immoral to look through discarded items to find a new use for them.
Would you feel this way if he was just looking through Goodwill? Picking up ‘curb alert’ items (things discarded on the curb for trash pickup)? Is it the contact with a dumpster?
I think it’s more telling that you consider it a bad thing. I never said how I feel about it.
You called them “bottom feeders” twice and you believe that doesn’t have a negative connotation?
Shrimp are bottom feeders and you believe that doesn’t have a negative connotation?
Is English your second language? When you use “bottom feeders” to refer to people that has a negative connotation:
bottom-feeder
noun
bot·tom-feed·er ˈbä-təm-ˌfē-dər
1: a fish that feeds at the bottom
2: one that is of the lowest status or rank
3: an opportunist who seeks quick profit usually at the expense of others or from their misfortune
1 clearly doesn’t apply, these are people. 2 doesn’t make sense as an objection against them doing it unless you hold lower ranking people in contempt, and 3 also shows a negative view of them. If you didn’t mean any of these things you should choose a different phrase. You can also explain what you actually meant, if you didn’t mean for what you said to have any negative connotations.
You clearly care about this more than I do.
Enjoy
Which way of making money is bottom feeding?
Conceivably you could do both, if you can hide the dumpster diving income from the welfare income verification.
The fact is he’s still climbing through garbage. Idc how much you make doing it, it’s literally bottom feeding.
Plus you’re missing the point entirely.