I posed the question to any comers on a note left in an office environment to which I received one reply from an undergrad at UGA. The question was, "Can you have capitalism without waste and poverty?" Her answer, though lengthy, simply stated that waste and poverty had always existed alongside capitalism. Therefore, they will continue to do so.
I beg to differ, and this guy apparently agrees. This article does not address the issue of poverty, but trash is a form of poverty as it relates to goods. The unusable portion of a product, either as a by product, or in it's packaging is waste. Not to mention the huge percentage of usable product just dumped in the trash each day from people eating at restaurants, or people who refuse to eat left-overs, and such. This wasteful mindset is BIG part of the problem that is often accepted as normal.
If normal is to be wasteful, so be it. Nobody is perfect, but when you read statistics indicating Americans throw over 40% of their food away, we must confess we are very far from perfect and filled with delusions of grandeur as we stomp on the gas pedal and slam on the brakes before stopping at the next red light.
While this new reality show is to "redefine the meaning of trash television", hopefully it will redefine trashy behavior and the need to fight wars over oil we use beyond reason for the lazy lifestyle we have created with this precious blood of the earth we vampirically extract, lackadaisically spew and endlessly defend with military force only to return as addicts for more, more, more.
"about a trash-less future and his goal to "eliminate the concept of waste."
https://tv.yahoo.com/news/trashy-reality-tv-show-focuses-recyclers-050524780.html
I beg to differ, and this guy apparently agrees. This article does not address the issue of poverty, but trash is a form of poverty as it relates to goods. The unusable portion of a product, either as a by product, or in it's packaging is waste. Not to mention the huge percentage of usable product just dumped in the trash each day from people eating at restaurants, or people who refuse to eat left-overs, and such. This wasteful mindset is BIG part of the problem that is often accepted as normal.
If normal is to be wasteful, so be it. Nobody is perfect, but when you read statistics indicating Americans throw over 40% of their food away, we must confess we are very far from perfect and filled with delusions of grandeur as we stomp on the gas pedal and slam on the brakes before stopping at the next red light.
While this new reality show is to "redefine the meaning of trash television", hopefully it will redefine trashy behavior and the need to fight wars over oil we use beyond reason for the lazy lifestyle we have created with this precious blood of the earth we vampirically extract, lackadaisically spew and endlessly defend with military force only to return as addicts for more, more, more.
"about a trash-less future and his goal to "eliminate the concept of waste."
https://tv.yahoo.com/news/trashy-reality-tv-show-focuses-recyclers-050524780.html
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