Comment on Just another "we are all going to die" prediction
Agent641@lemmy.world 3 days agoWell he’s already divorced, collects all sorts of weird shit, and he has a giant scrapyard full of steel junk. Ancient bus from the interwar period. Pile of garage doors but no garage. I don’t pretend to know why.
over_clox@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Coming from my late father, that’s all perfectly good stock metal material, once the welded sections are cut apart into desired lengths anyways. Can be reused for whatever purposes, plus the material probably came way cheaper, if not perhaps free, compared to purchasing raw stock from the metal foundry…
Mesophar@pawb.social 3 days ago
Doesn’t sound like they are actually using it. How much stock metal do you need to store if your consumption of the stock metal is (near) zero? Don’t think that theory holds weight here.
over_clox@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You never met a hoarder have you?
They probably caught a hella fat deal on the material, but the deal might have come with the catch of ‘You gotta take it all for this cheap deal’ sort of thing from some construction site or something like that.
My late father ran across such deals sometimes. Hell, he picked up an entire Pizza Hut freezer panel assembly. And I don’t mean like a kitchen freezer, I mean like their main back freezer, enough material that he literally built a fucking storage shed out of it.
Mesophar@pawb.social 3 days ago
That isn’t storing stock metal, then, it’s just hoarding. It doesn’t matter the condition, or purpose, or any deals. It’s just accumulating -stuff-. It possibly being used for xyz is just superfluous
I guess “hoarding” is the answer I expected, not (they think) it can potentially be useful.