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jaschen@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

This is mostly an American thing. They/we tend to be more entitled and very selfish. Often making excuses for bad behavior with lines like “I’m keeping people employed”. No stupid, you’re increasing our groceries because of your selfishness.

Now I live in Taiwan and have visited many countries and found out that this is not the norm. Most people care about the community their live in and oftentimes put back their carts.

Another example of American entitlement. Americans often throw trash on the ground in parking lots because the trash cans are too far away or they can’t find one. Again the same excuses, “Keeping these people employed”.

In Taiwan(and Japan), if you can’t find a trash can, you take your trash home with you. You actually have a hard time finding a bin in public here. But our streets are typically very clean. Because we care about the community and the people here are less selfish.

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Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Where in the US? It’s pretty common where I’m from to put shopping carts back in their corral.

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- jaschen@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Issaquah WA which is an affluent area east of Seattle.
  
  I also lived in Los Angeles and some of these people take the carts pass the corral and all the way to their neighborhoods.
  
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  - Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I’ll take your work on Issaquah being affluent and blame it on that and LA is just LA.
    
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frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
And you’ll be heavily fined if you don’t carry your trash home. Personally I prefer public trash cans, especially when I’m visiting a place hours from home.

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- jaschen@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  We are not encouraged to carry our trash home because of “fines”. We do it because it’s the right thing to do if you can’t find a trash bin.
  
  I have carried my trash for hours before I found a bin. It’s the norm to do that and we even have methods to carry it more effectively.
  
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  - frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Gross
    
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    Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Gross? Are taking dumps in trashbins or wtf?? Carrying basic trash (packaging? Plastic? Paper?) in a bag isn’t gross if done properly.
    
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    ZeffSyde@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Just institute a back seat compost system like I did as a teenager. You just have to stir it up every once in a while.
    
    Bonus is nobody asks you for a ride or for help moving, and eventually, you can just leave your windows down and the raccoons will do most of the work for you.
    
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- frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Wow downvoted for public trash cans. What a gentleman.
  
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  - jaschen@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I countered your downvote with my lone upvote. Thanks for commenting.
    
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    frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    ❤️
    
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Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Creating jobs for the sake of creating jobs is the stupidest anyway.

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finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
You absolutely won’t have the savings passed onto you if the store fires one of the cart managers. That’s the same logic as thinking self checkout makes store prices cheaper. Maybe if every store were locally owned it might work that way, but we’re far from that sort of system.

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- jaschen@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Nobody said the savings will trickle down to consumers. But best believe it will INCREASE if enough idiots do stupid things.
  
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- Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  They didn’t ask for an example of American broken thinking but you provided it anyway because it’s another thing Americans excel at.
  
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  - finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I return the carts and I don’t litter, but lets not lie about the effects of cart returning on socioeconomic outcomes. That’s bullshit and you know it.
    
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