Krampus

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Putting a quarter into a cart is a thing in Canada but it's only ever at the low income grocery stores. The ritzier stores use a locking mechanism to lock the wheels if they leave the parking lot.

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I dunno about nowadays but where I'm from Cart Boy was totally a single function job in retail stores. You'd be hired just to gather carts. My friend liked it when people left them further away cuz they'd have an excuse to dawdle a bit and not interact as much with annoying customers.

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Funny I never see such hatred for people who leave their garbage on movie theatre seats or not clearing their trays at fast food places.
Some people have disabilities and sometimes it's just tough enough to shop and they are too tired or worn out by the end of their monthly shopping trip to bring the cart to the cart shed. I feel like everyone shitting on people leaving carts out of the cart shed are fully able bodied healthy young people who will one day do the thing they are complaining about, and realise they were being wieners about it. It's not the end of the world to leave your cart 10 metres from the shed.

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I mean, most people are digesting animals, unless they're vegan.

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Didn't someone make an audio file that can lock/unlock them at will?

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Forgot the health insurance company CEOs.

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Is that why they stole their money?

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Stole whose money? My money? My stove broke, they replaced it, pest issue, they paid for the exterminator, roof leaking, they paid for it to be fixed, many other examples but you get the idea. I didn't pay utilities in some places. I've had bad landlords and I moved house because of them and didn't do them any favours when I left. The good ones I made sure I was a good tenant for.
I think a lot of renters don't understand how expensive owning a place is with upkeep. We wouldn't be able to replace a furnace or roof repair and all that jazz in our income bracket.

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Landlords buy an essential good just so they can squeeze money out of their renters. Housing should never be seen as an investment, yet these parasites do.

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Just get your lazy ass to walk a couple of meters. Jesus Christ. This is another of these issues only present in America yet americans pretend like it isnt their fault.

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Fuck off and walk a couple of meters. Seriously as a non american this level of egoism is unfathomable for me

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Are you suggesting landlords make zero profit off of the property?

The money we put in is more than the cost of the exterminator, roof not-leaking, many other examples but you get the idea.

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No wonder coal as a fossil fuel isn’t going away. The rich folk get so much during Christmas!

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I am offended on behalf of the good people I know who made it so we could have housing when we can't afford a mortgage or the housing upkeep costs. They were investments to them sure but they cared about their tenants. Call in the middle of the evening because the toilet wasn't working and they came quickly with a brand new toilet. Couldn't make that months rent till the middle of the month , no problem, pay when you can type thing.
Every single landlord aren't the devils you want them to be.
I agree some of them are bad because I've had that experience too. I think maybe you should be kre angry with the banks and the giant conglomerates who pay you shitt wages making you too poor to afford a mortgage or the upkeep for home ownership.
I am not willing to lump all landlords in the same shit pile. I've seen second hand what being house poor is like. House is falling apart because they can't afford to maintain it. Wearing winter coats inside because the furnace broke and can't afford to fix it, not having a working toilet and shitting in a bucket with a trash bag.
Also imagine having to buy a new house everytime you moved to a new town or different area of a big city. Renting a home or an apartment has a place in society.

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No, I'm not suggesting that at all. Don't know why you are suggesting I am?

The benefits of renting is that we are too poor, we do not have emergency funds to buy a new stove or what have you, but we are able to afford monthly rent. Repairs and stud, that falls on the landlords. They charge an amount that will cover the cost of any repairs or appliance or plumbing replacements in the future, along with (if they don't own the house outright) their mortgage payments on the house.

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Some day, if you are lucky, you will be at an age where you are able to walk the grocery store very slowly and feebly, relying on your cart to stand up and lean on, but too old and tired to to bring it to the cart shed.

It's really not that big of a crime.

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All people are digesting animals because humans are animals who digest food.

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There is a huge difference between a private owner, and a corporation. Anyhow they might have a common approach, I would say estate ownership should be limited to a certain number through incremental taxation the more you own the larger the tax bracket, like we do for income

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Slovenija too. It's probably a thing in a large part of Europe.

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In a classless stateless utopia where food was free and no one had to work it would still be considered polite and common courtesy to put away your shopping cart when you're done using it at the local food co-op.

The floor shitting analogy is that we shouldn't have people doing something rude just because it creates or maintains another job. Everyone can agree on the floor shitting analogy and it maps perfectly onto this argument. If you want you can add a preamble of "in this world, everyone used to shit on floors and there was a janitorial staff to clean it up."

They put on self-service tills in the hope that folk would do it free. When they used to hire 30 checkout staff, they now hire 2 per 12 tills, so they save on 20 checkout staff per shift. Of course they weren't redeployed to shelf stacking, as they already had shelf stackers. They just went to the job centre.

So by this logic you want gas station attendants back at gas stations, and for people to stop using ATM machines in favor of tellers? Maybe we shouldn't use computers because of all of the stenography and data management jobs that were lost, not to mention all of the paper mills that were shut down as people moved away from using so much paper. As you see, jobs appear and disappear all the time. Why do you want people doing meaningless redundant jobs for the sake of their employment? That's just cruel.

Maybe we should bring back the lamplighter guild and get back to using horses. Gas lights and carriages created a lot of jobs that were rudely snuffed out.