<![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.

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It’s usually the one person pickups that miss bins here and there, requiring return pickups that cost more money. Also, one person pickups cause longer truck idling times, using more fuel in the short term, higher maintenance costs in the long term.

The logic of cheapskates is full of holes to begin with.

@regendans

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kolektiva.social/users/micchiato/statuses/116663986294379107https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kolektiva.social/users/micchiato/statuses/116663986294379107Sat, 30 May 2026 14:25:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 14:25:52 GMT]]>@futurebird

Over here we call that "bicycleing".
Buckeling to the top and stepping on those at the bottom.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.tchncs.de/users/jesuisatire/statuses/116663985917627442https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.tchncs.de/users/jesuisatire/statuses/116663985917627442Sat, 30 May 2026 14:25:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 14:25:22 GMT]]>@cshlan

Remember the old days, when at least they thought they had to pretend to be "job creators"?

@futurebird @billiglarper

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kolektiva.social/users/EricLawton/statuses/116663983979726472https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kolektiva.social/users/EricLawton/statuses/116663983979726472Sat, 30 May 2026 14:25:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 14:25:06 GMT]]>@futurebird @thejessiekirk

What chain is that so I can avoid it.

Not that CVS here has much if any competition other than the lil pharmacies in Safeway Stores.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/MedeaVanamonde/statuses/116663982925815408https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/MedeaVanamonde/statuses/116663982925815408Sat, 30 May 2026 14:25:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 14:24:23 GMT]]>@dartigen @futurebird @ehproque
Now that you mention it our guys probably ride inside the trucks now, too. I mostly see them walking behind the truck through the neighborhood. It's been years since I remember seeing someone on the back of a garbage truck on a major street.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://dawdling.net/users/cshlan/statuses/116663980081218048https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://dawdling.net/users/cshlan/statuses/116663980081218048Sat, 30 May 2026 14:24:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 14:22:12 GMT]]>@futurebird Carl Icahn and Milton Friedman. It used to be that business management, for all its faults, was about stewardship of the institution rather than pleasing the most sociopathic of its short-term shareholders. Those two psychos very quickly created a meme (in the original sociological context) that infected a generation of people who were out to maximize their own pleasure. It changed the culture as a whole.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/ShiitakeToast/statuses/116663971498556147https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/ShiitakeToast/statuses/116663971498556147Sat, 30 May 2026 14:22:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 14:22:02 GMT]]>@futurebird @Karen5Lund @Nerts
I want an ant opera now.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JoBlakely/statuses/116663970826044771https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JoBlakely/statuses/116663970826044771Sat, 30 May 2026 14:22:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 14:19:24 GMT]]>@billiglarper @futurebird
We have single operators most trucks here, city trucks. And the guys (it’s always guys) are rushed and are often seen driving away and dropping bins while moving fast

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/MedeaVanamonde/statuses/116663960499062189https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/MedeaVanamonde/statuses/116663960499062189Sat, 30 May 2026 14:19:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 14:18:40 GMT]]>@futurebird Do you remember the NYC garbage strike? To this day it blows my mind that “nobody” learned any lessons from that very powerful action.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/Moss/statuses/116663957596288417https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/Moss/statuses/116663957596288417Sat, 30 May 2026 14:18:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 14:17:52 GMT]]>@EricLawton @futurebird

Obviously a system based on having an endless stream of disposable workers.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/angelastella/statuses/116663954478704177https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/angelastella/statuses/116663954478704177Sat, 30 May 2026 14:17:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 14:16:39 GMT]]>@futurebird we only get one sanitation specialist for most trucks.

Back in the day there would be three burly guys

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/MedeaVanamonde/statuses/116663949708202507https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/MedeaVanamonde/statuses/116663949708202507Sat, 30 May 2026 14:16:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 14:16:08 GMT]]>@doctormo

At some point I really wonder... if it's so "easy" to do those jobs or get "extra" benefits or be poor...

My brother in christ, then, why oh why don't you just go and *live* that life? Go on! Take the advantages. I will not judge you for it. I want you to succeed. Have at it. What is stopping you?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/116663947648343816https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/116663947648343816Sat, 30 May 2026 14:16:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 14:14:00 GMT]]>@futurebird I'm astonished how often I hear people complain about the laziness of people who are visibly working hard right in front of them.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.coop/users/foolishowl/statuses/116663939240251357https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.coop/users/foolishowl/statuses/116663939240251357Sat, 30 May 2026 14:14:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 14:13:02 GMT]]>@futurebird

There's this thing that happens where people are riled up by perceived injustice. Then this anger blinds them.

Take benefit fraud. An absolute devil worshipper level evil according to the uk press. A frenzie of hate. Yet look at the consequences of a handful of people in your local town getting a few extra bob they "weren't supposed to"... your town has more people spending money.

Compared to the profligate fraud of billionaires where our money disappears into tax havens.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://floss.social/users/doctormo/statuses/116663935481612875https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://floss.social/users/doctormo/statuses/116663935481612875Sat, 30 May 2026 14:13:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 14:06:24 GMT]]>@futurebird
Every Christmas I get the garbage guys a card and a coffee card as thanks for their service. I couldn’t live without the garbage man!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ottawa.place/users/Pinchy63/statuses/116663909379405048https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ottawa.place/users/Pinchy63/statuses/116663909379405048Sat, 30 May 2026 14:06:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 14:04:46 GMT]]>@futurebird i think in Germany most garbage trucks are manned by three persons. One drives the others get the trashcans and mount them on the truck for emptying. Very efficient.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://rollenspiel.social/users/Leendaal/statuses/116663902935287184https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://rollenspiel.social/users/Leendaal/statuses/116663902935287184Sat, 30 May 2026 14:04:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 14:03:37 GMT]]>@futurebird

I happened to be out on the road when our garbage truck came by.

I said "hi" and he immediately concluded that I had gone over to complain about something.

I said "no, I was just thinking about how tough your job is now, there used to be a driver and someone on the back picking up the garbage/recycling".

They'd cut it down to one guy who had to stop the truck, climb out, go round the back, collect the stuff, get back in the cab, drive down to the next house, repeat.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kolektiva.social/users/EricLawton/statuses/116663898413296127https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kolektiva.social/users/EricLawton/statuses/116663898413296127Sat, 30 May 2026 14:03:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 14:01:24 GMT]]>@futurebird @Karen5Lund @Nerts

Passerby: "Why are you looking at those?"

Myrmepropagandist: "Cause I'm an ANT FAN! 𝅘𝅥𝅮 Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop... 𝅘𝅥𝅮 "
[ parody of Scatman John's work, earnestly detailing the fascinating qualities of family Formicidae, continues for 5 minutes and 11 seconds ]

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://dice.camp/users/PTR_K/statuses/116663889723676968https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://dice.camp/users/PTR_K/statuses/116663889723676968Sat, 30 May 2026 14:01:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 14:00:40 GMT]]>@futurebird @alda In Paris the sanitation workers strike regularly just to make sure everyone remembers.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kamu.social/users/Linza/statuses/116663886824907811https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kamu.social/users/Linza/statuses/116663886824907811Sat, 30 May 2026 14:00:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 13:59:35 GMT]]>@pattykimura

"impatient aggressive New Yorkers" I can't imagine what would give people this impression. LMAO.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/116663882573272128https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/116663882573272128Sat, 30 May 2026 13:59:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 13:58:09 GMT]]>@futurebird Hmm. The person who complained has: 1. Never emptied other people's garbage 2. Has never driven a commercial truck in narrow alleys or city traffic.
My wife used to drive a tractor trailer (53 feet) in NYC to deliver pallets of food. And had to navigate between park cars, unaware foot traffic, speeding cyclists, and angry drivers trying to block her or unsafely cut her off.
Since she drove alone, she had to take chances without any help when trying to back up or turn or get into/out of driveways. The city is not for faint-hearted inexperienced drivers. Commercial drivers get a premium to deliver in NY because it's not designed for commercial traffic, and well, because of impatient aggressive New Yorkers. Boston is as bad, with tiny winding streets and lots of Massholes.
After that person's car gets smashed or sideswiped by a one-person city garbage truck with one person, tell them "you got what you wished for, and don't you dare sue the city and raise our taxes."

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/pattykimura/statuses/116663876966961609https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/pattykimura/statuses/116663876966961609Sat, 30 May 2026 13:58:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 13:51:49 GMT]]>@futurebird hi I was in an adjacent industry for some years

TRASH IS FUCKING DANGEROUS. It's not just that there could be sharps, there definitely ARE sharps. There are pressurized cannisters and car batteries and gas cans improperly disposed of. There are live animals with diseases. There's heavy shit and gross shit and actual shit shit. Illegal shit and shit packed so it moves unexpectedly and could collapse. Falling shit and flying shit. The second guy is there to save the first guy's life.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kamu.social/users/Linza/statuses/116663852056307221https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kamu.social/users/Linza/statuses/116663852056307221Sat, 30 May 2026 13:51:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 13:47:14 GMT]]>@futurebird Garbage collector is a job with lots of hazards, and they deal with angry idiots all the time. They absolutely earn those wages

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/leeglidewell/statuses/116663833986305407https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/leeglidewell/statuses/116663833986305407Sat, 30 May 2026 13:47:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. on Sat, 30 May 2026 13:45:04 GMT]]>@Karen5Lund @Nerts

I guess they maybe thought there was a broadway show in there or something. LMAO.

(but, in a way, there is a broadway show in the sidewalk crack. Ant drama is high drama.)

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