I call it The Treadmill. If you're white, able-bodied, educated, motivated to play the game, etc. you can keep from falling off with what feels more or less like an easy walk. Until they speed it up. Or you get sick. Or stop playing the game.
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Food insecurity isn't always about lack of food, more like lack of logistics.
All that old growth wood furniture.... It always makes me so sad knowing that it's essentially a semi non-renewable resource
I live in a very, very rural part of the country. Land is CHEAP; you can buy 100+ acres of forest for under $2000/acre. There are a lot of vacant houses. Why? Because no one wants to live here. (Obviously not no one, since I chose to move here, but still.) There aren't jobs locally; part of the price I pay for living where I want to live is spending 3+ hours in a car commuting each day. The vacant houses are vacant because the people that lived there either died, or moved because they couldn't get work. They're not vacant because some venture capital real estate company is buying up rural homes just to hold on to them as they rot away.
The issue isn't vacant housing; the issue is where the housing is, and whether it's actually habitable or not.
Can you live on that land without having to pay taxes or anything?
Because in my country, any cheap land in a place with no employment isn't viable due to needing employment to maintain 'ownership' of the land through fees to the state.
Also even if the issue is location, there is huge amounts of abandoned empty housing in cities with jobs. Squatters are constantly trying to live in such places and getting chased out by cops.
You have found the rub, there is always taxes. The issue is you need internet or local jobs and guess what outside of starmlink there was nothing in the places you can afford. The extra fun part is there are people who move to low COL areas after selling their property when retiring just to make it work. This is a reason that these locations sometimes have a lot of elderly people. Now the real fucked up part is that even this strange retirement tactic does not work if you never are able to buy a place.
It's fueled by greed and the desire to control others.
how much food gets thrown away just because it isn't picturesque?
I've tried growing tomatoes, and bub let me tell you, they look nothing like the pristine samples you find in grocery stores
I hate it here. We have answers to all of life's problems, and yet we humans continue to choose the hard way.
Because the rich will lose profits, greed is the corruption we deal with. Enough is never enough.
It’s infuriating because we out number them to such a scale that it’s not funny, but so many of us are trapped into the system that they would never dare do anything about it.
https://www.misfitsmarket.com/
Buy food that was rejected because of its appearance. It's super cheap, it slows food waste, and it helps out a small company.
What’s also weird is that if you want to get rid of perfectly good things nobody wants it or anyplace that might be able to use it makes it prohibitively difficult to get it to them. Got a functional fridge? Sure, you haul it out of your house, rent a truck, take it to the receiver - oh, and it can’t be more than 10 years old.
I find these posts that complain about waste kinda performative. While they’re not wrong, they ignore the logistical issues, both deliberate and indirect, of getting those things to the people that actually need them.
FWIW I’ve found that putting a “curb alert” for free good items with pictures and a location works pretty well. Some industrious person will usually pick something decent up 75% of the time.
We should be intercepting the landfill
dumpster diving is a thing. food not bombs.
Yeah I was thinking more along the lines of repurposing, repairing, and medical piracy. Like people take batteries out of vapes to make power walls and all the aspirin can be converted into other drugs
Capitalism working as designed
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