<![CDATA[People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires.]]>People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires.

I just listened to someone complaining about how "the garbage union" has schemed so that there are always two people operating NYC garbage trucks to "waste my tax dollars" and I guess making too many wealthy sanitation workers... oh no the horror.

I like that there are two people on each truck. It's more efficient and safer. But, even if it was somehow a waste I promise you that's not who is wasting your money bud.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/f97274f1-ef60-4556-97f9-f4286c644c46/people-are-cheapskates-with-poor-people-but-spendthrift-with-billionaires.RSS for NodeFri, 05 Jun 2026 21:26:05 GMTSat, 30 May 2026 11:43:39 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 17:37:02 GMT]]>@Illuminatus Probably more like Calvinist ethic. I've never heard German Protestants complain about two-person garbage collection teams, and there's plenty of Protestants around, and garbage collection has been done by two people every time I've seen it done. One drives the lorry, the other one picks up the yellow sacks or empties the containers into the lorry.

@baishen @futurebird

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.cat/users/riley/statuses/116664737651538895https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.cat/users/riley/statuses/116664737651538895Sat, 30 May 2026 17:37:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 17:33:11 GMT]]>@baishen Well, you know how a common trope in cop-speak is replacing common nouns with formal-sounding slightly more generic ones, like car -> 'vehicle' ?

In this case, this very same pattern applies, the stupid person just thought that 'doing anything' is the formal-sounding slightly more generic euphemism for 'murder'.

@futurebird

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.cat/users/riley/statuses/116664722465659225https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.cat/users/riley/statuses/116664722465659225Sat, 30 May 2026 17:33:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 17:32:16 GMT]]>@futurebird exactly!

Besides a driver upfront & two workers at the rear are the standard even in Europe, because most garbage trucks can take 1 big or twovregular/small containers at the same time and they do workflow to maximize the amount of containers they empty per time.

  • There's a reason this job even has a traineeship program in Germany, and it's not just due to safety reasons, but because it is a demanding job.
    • And the people doing this filthy job certainly deserve their paycheck, if not a hefty raise on top of the "Filthyness Premium".

Cuz unlike value-removing Billionaires, they do provide a vital service and prevent cities from choking in their own filth!

  • Everyone who claims otherwise is a useful idiot who ate up classist propaganda.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/ap/users/116655881384112498/statuses/116664718882066201https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/ap/users/116655881384112498/statuses/116664718882066201Sat, 30 May 2026 17:32:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 17:10:58 GMT]]>@baishen @futurebird
Meatloaf Proviso - When a statement of dedication contains specifically exempted forms of service to be defined at a later time.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://dice.camp/users/PTR_K/statuses/116664635100403523https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://dice.camp/users/PTR_K/statuses/116664635100403523Sat, 30 May 2026 17:10:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 17:08:32 GMT]]>@gimulnautti @futurebird If your first response to hearing about children being killed is to ask who's kids, there's something wrong with you.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/baishen/statuses/116664625534794754https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/baishen/statuses/116664625534794754Sat, 30 May 2026 17:08:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 16:55:30 GMT]]>@futurebird When the rules change based on who it is, Wilhoit’s law demonstrates that it is conservatism, it’s essence.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.green/users/gimulnautti/statuses/116664574306940922https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.green/users/gimulnautti/statuses/116664574306940922Sat, 30 May 2026 16:55:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 16:52:28 GMT]]>@imikotoba @futurebird One garbage company here tried it with one worker per truck but they quickly went back to two. I don't know why; maybe you need fewer trucks with two workers, or maybe people refused to work solo like that.

The truck is the expensive item here, not the workers.

The people who are upset about two workers per truck have likely never done heavy labor before.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/gkemp/statuses/116664562366409940https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/gkemp/statuses/116664562366409940Sat, 30 May 2026 16:52:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 16:32:02 GMT]]>@futurebird @DavidM_yeg @billiglarper @david_chisnall

In the video, the part about the US prohibiting a Chinese radio telescope in Argentina is infuriating.

If MAGA wanted to compete with Chinese science they wouldn't have defunded all the US science. They just don't want any science anywhere.

'Anything good must be destroyed, even if it's none of our business.'

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Phosphenes/statuses/116664482006219714https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Phosphenes/statuses/116664482006219714Sat, 30 May 2026 16:32:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 16:31:46 GMT]]>@futurebird
If one person takes three times as long to do the job, getting rid of one of them is not a sound financial decision.

Trash is usually thrown in the back, opposite end as the cabin. Putting one person at each end saves a lot of walking back and forth.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/ap/users/116216635389955538/statuses/116664480957217128https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/ap/users/116216635389955538/statuses/116664480957217128Sat, 30 May 2026 16:31:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 16:21:37 GMT]]>@futurebird everyone knows rich people are motivated by getting more money and poor people are motivated by getting less money. (/s)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sfba.social/users/MyLittleMetroid/statuses/116664441090474893https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sfba.social/users/MyLittleMetroid/statuses/116664441090474893Sat, 30 May 2026 16:21:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 16:18:16 GMT]]>@futurebird wait there are only two workers per truck?
We* usually have 3-5, one driver with the rest collecting bins

* were I am in Germany, no idea for the rest of it

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://unfug.social/users/4censord/statuses/116664427905192216https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://unfug.social/users/4censord/statuses/116664427905192216Sat, 30 May 2026 16:18:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 16:06:21 GMT]]>@stuartb @webhat @futurebird @Illuminatus @baishen yes. You can't pay your bills with Thursday night eight o'clock clapping can you. However kindly some people meant it. Of course, some only used it as a photo op "see. See how much we care and how we're just like you" (yes, I'm looking at you, farage, johnson and company)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/users/capnthommo/statuses/116664381070103357https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/users/capnthommo/statuses/116664381070103357Sat, 30 May 2026 16:06:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 16:06:16 GMT]]>@Illuminatus @baishen @futurebird if you follow the trail backwards to the root of all these selfish, capitalist, power-hungry mindsets, you always end up at the same place: the desire for domination.

all human interaction is rooted either in domination or cooperation. having power over someone versus sacrificing control in order to work together. even Wilhoit's Law (which remains undefeated) is rooted in this: the desire for in-groups and out-groups is a mechanism for exerting dominance.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://phpc.social/users/dirtside/statuses/116664380743202376https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://phpc.social/users/dirtside/statuses/116664380743202376Sat, 30 May 2026 16:06:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 15:59:34 GMT]]>@futurebird It's a constant refrain with the subway too. Sorry, the conductor checking the doors before the train leaves the station is not the reason for the TA being needlessly expensive, it's the billions handed out to machine connected contracting firms and I'm so sick of every "urbanist" with a youtube/substack laundering this shit

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/serverlessaoife/statuses/116664354358231433https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/serverlessaoife/statuses/116664354358231433Sat, 30 May 2026 15:59:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 15:59:16 GMT]]>@Linza @futurebird absolutely. Worked for a few months in the waste management department of my county council once. They employed a chemist full time to advise, monitor, test and enforce control of what went into simple landfill to ensure there weren't any 'unfortunate' reactions. Because people will try and get away with all kinds of sketchy, and ultimately deadly, shit. And that's just with burying it underground. (Back then that was where most of it went)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/users/capnthommo/statuses/116664353183444810https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/users/capnthommo/statuses/116664353183444810Sat, 30 May 2026 15:59:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 15:50:06 GMT]]>@futurebird
Same idiots would definitely complain if it took twice as long to get the garbage picked up (if it happens at all) when the second person goes away

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/notthatkindofdoctor/statuses/116664317153579130https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/notthatkindofdoctor/statuses/116664317153579130Sat, 30 May 2026 15:50:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 15:43:22 GMT]]>@futurebird That person is an ignorant fool. No surprise in a nation full of them.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trashed-inside-the-deadly-world-of-private-garbage-collection

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/the_blackwell_ninja/statuses/116664290675121979https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/the_blackwell_ninja/statuses/116664290675121979Sat, 30 May 2026 15:43:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 15:42:41 GMT]]>@futurebird I find it useful to assume that the US has a caste system and these people think they’re a part of the upper caste. It’s the same with guns, for example. It all comes down to expressions of power and the expectation that others should suffer as a part of the natural order. It’s a fundamentally vibes-based perspective.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/complexmath/statuses/116664287991311500https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/complexmath/statuses/116664287991311500Sat, 30 May 2026 15:42:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 15:38:01 GMT]]>@EricLawton @futurebird

Yeah, that is tough. I think we get three bin men round our way: one to drive, two to do the bins.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.space/users/CppGuy/statuses/116664269634493861https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.space/users/CppGuy/statuses/116664269634493861Sat, 30 May 2026 15:38:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 15:33:19 GMT]]>@futurebird @billiglarper @david_chisnall

Stealing public space is a looong tradition… and most people become peculiarly blind to that space. Case in point: all the valuable public space eaten up by the automotive industry and private cars

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/DavidM_yeg/statuses/116664251161213804https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/DavidM_yeg/statuses/116664251161213804Sat, 30 May 2026 15:33:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 15:26:24 GMT]]>@futurebird @DavidM_yeg @billiglarper @david_chisnall
Idea: robot bench networks. wanders the city looking for people to sit on it, learns to find where the largest number of people want to sit and only leaves there when that region is saturated with bench robots. As soon as empty, robot wanders in search of more sitters. Bench robots dispense media about how to build more bench robots.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cyberpunk.lol/users/dirtwizard666/statuses/116664223949788128https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cyberpunk.lol/users/dirtwizard666/statuses/116664223949788128Sat, 30 May 2026 15:26:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 15:23:44 GMT]]>@capnthommo @futurebird When I was a kid we had blokes who emptied our 'bucket and chuck-it' toilet that way. My parents relied on that until they died in the 1980s. One reason I loathe aristocrats and am sceptical about the National Trust who took over the estate in the 70s and failed to modernise the cottages.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.wales/users/pthane/statuses/116664213460204720https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.wales/users/pthane/statuses/116664213460204720Sat, 30 May 2026 15:23:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 15:14:52 GMT]]>@billiglarper @futurebird
The dumpster are smaller, but we have 3 of them - one for paper, one for plastic and metal and the general one. 😄 Means 3 different trucks though (usually on 3 different days).

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://norden.social/users/nachtet/statuses/116664178583818251https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://norden.social/users/nachtet/statuses/116664178583818251Sat, 30 May 2026 15:14:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 15:10:54 GMT]]>@DavidM_yeg @billiglarper @david_chisnall

My big concern is the same as Fran talks about in this video. When companies try to implement these systems they find ways to do it that steal public space. Why can't the robots park inside of your business and charge there? No room? Huh. Interesting.

Looking at the robots the first thing I think of is that in NYC people would sit on them. (which will be very funny) So that design won't last at least.

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