Carter Stevens started reselling discarded items from dumpsters around Nashville, Tennessee, in March 2024. Months earlier, he'd been living in his car.
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.
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
Hope you learned something 😘
Not from you kiddo. Cheers
That’s sad, I hope someone else can help you with learning English!