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by relaxing 1643 days ago
1. Cans need to be collected

2. Everyone needs a living wage

Hope this helps.

2 comments

> 2. Everyone needs a living wage

I think everyone would agree with this, but phrased slightly differently I don't think everyone would agree:

"Every method of making money must be capable of generating a living wage for the person using that method"

>> 2. Everyone needs a living wage

> I think everyone would agree with this

Are you kidding? You'd have to be insane to agree with that. Some people are already independently wealthy. Some people -- a really large number of people -- are supported by other people.

I think everyone would agree that, barring rich people, at the end of the day everyone needs to be supported by someone making at least a living wage.
And it should be illegal for those people to have jobs themselves?
If the value of having the cans collected is less than the cost of having someone collect them, then it turns out the cans don't need to be collected after all.