You make more money from stuff people throw away than I do with my full time job (which is even less than my socialist country would give me for being umemployed), while putting stuff on the street is highly illegal. Brave new world.
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The cost of living is super high here, but generally speaking, yea, it's nuts. On top of that, the wastefulness and laziness of wealthy people is obnoxious. From the perspective of humanity, I wish it was illegal to put stuff out on the street here. You can't even imagine how much there is. I'd trade having people be more eco-friendly/less wasteful any day.
Admittedly, it is incredibly clean in my city, including several very good recycling companies (they got really good after they were privatized and not run by the government anymore). Most houses have bio-degradable, paper, plastic/tech and general waste bins. Extra glass containers are in every other street. Clothes containers for the poor as well. Each street has multiple waste bins with extra cigarettes departments and many different, smart/funny slogans, to make people use them. Dog poop goes in there as well in extra little baggies.
This is all good stuff and I am happy to have that. I guess I was just a bit bitter earlier this morning. Berlin is awesome. Except for the government in Germany. That is just as bad as in the USA - or nearly everywhere else in the world.