Carter Stevens started reselling discarded items from dumpsters around Nashville, Tennessee, in March 2024. Months earlier, he'd been living in his car.
        • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          1 day ago

          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.