first dumpster dive this month

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Originally Posted by potsmokingnome

Yep it makes me sick in this day and age when we need to recylce, reuse, and reduce the most. All we seem to be doing is making inferior products, that are more exspensive to fix then just throw out and buy a new one. We need better qaulity products on the market! Not the junk that is sold now a days!

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we need to abandon capitalism.

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Originally Posted by BizzleLuvin

thanks, you flatter me. but this is why i do these kinds of things, to make the world a better place. people should try it some time. i'm making up for those who sit idly by, wasting wasting wasting

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You kick major ass, I'd love to get high with you one day! :D

wait....iPod story? did i miss something?

i think that would work if everyone was giving, charitable, and communal. heck, everywhere in the world is a blur between communism and capitalism. understand that when i say "communism" i mean the ideal, theoretical idea of having everything in common, everyone helping each other. "communism" as it has been used by countries such as russia and china, is just a farce, an excuse for oppression; a critical distinction

i've gotta say though, as much as i'd love to abandon capitalism (and hope to do so to some extent, living with friends and fam. in a communal, semi-agricultural fashion), i think that capitalism is the most feasible way for folks to have a high standard of living (and by that i mean good food, water, health care, and some comfort, not shitloads of fucking hummers) in this world of imperfect folk.

still, i admire where you're coming from

yeah socialism and capitalism are unfortunately one of those ideals that are genious yet have very little hope in aplication to our sociey nowadays. capitalism has its benefits but at the same time has severe drawbacks. i'd just like to see people learn from the mistakes of capitalism and take from the ideals of communism and socialism to create a more responsible economy and way of living. it is possible. abandoning capitalism NOW would indeed be catastrophic, but that doesn't mean we can't change how we run. and this is why (among other things) I dumpster dive. why i would love to live in a socialist utopia, i dont see it in my immediate future but I DO see folks re-thinking our economy and looking into other alternatives, gradually making small changes.

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Originally Posted by mattks1

you know what, i double checked on this yesterday while i was working. the popo that i talked to said that once the trash hits the dumpster, it is then property of whoever owns that dumpster, such as GDS or whatever trash company you have there. i dont know about there, but my gov't doesnt pay to have dumpsters put behind Dollar General. and to think that it is resourceful to dumpster dive is a good way to make yourself reason with jumping into a recepticle for trash. for some reason this hits a nerve. i cant stand to drive down the road and see some redneck and his 2 kids in a station wagon with shit piled to the roof inside, pull over on the side of the road and start diggin through peoples trash. if you want it, you should have got a job and bought it to begin with.

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are you privileged? cuz i find this sort of thinking despicable; i am a privileged white kid from a safe, clean, middle class community. i've never wanted for anything. but i understand that i'm lucky, and i'm grateful, and i try to have some compassion for all the folk that didn't have all the shit that i did and still do. don't be so quick to judge. you don't know someone's situation. you might have talked with that "redneck" and found them to be a very soulful person, dealing with hard times.

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Originally Posted by whitestalkslongwalks

are you privileged? cuz i find this sort of thinking despicable; i am a privileged white kid from a safe, clean, middle class community. i've never wanted for anything. but i understand that i'm lucky, and i'm grateful, and i try to have some compassion for all the folk that didn't have all the shit that i did and still do. don't be so quick to judge. you don't know someone's situation. you might have talked with that "redneck" and found them to be a very soulful person, dealing with hard times.

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have you been reading the WHOLE damn thread??? p.s. i never thought this thread would be so huge

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Originally Posted by Billionfold

Sorry, I'm agnostic.

And if there is a passage in the bible that says God approves of dumpster diving, I'm going to put it in my signature.

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blessed are the divers, for they shall inherit the forgotten riches of the unsatisfied

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Originally Posted by BizzleLuvin

have you been reading the WHOLE damn thread??? p.s. i never thought this thread would be so huge

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working on it :) trying not to post, but too much good stuff here ;)

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Originally Posted by whitestalkslongwalks

working on it :) trying not to post, but too much good stuff here ;)

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keep posting dude, you agree with me so therefore I like you. HA!