Sweden Runs Out of Garbage With Waste-to-Energy

Re:Sweden Runs Out of Garbage With Waste-to-Energy by gvr on Thursday August 01, 2013 @07:41PM (#6144415)

I think you're dead on with the "boo-hoo god forbid I'd have to sort my trash, raise my own kid, pack my grocery bag, carry my luggage mentality."

Whenever I'm offered these services I feel annoyed - what do I look like, a giant baby? I can carry my own bag.

The larger the wealth gap is in society, the more people become obsessed with comparing themselves to others and the more patterns we see designed to enable them to feel they come out on top in this comparison.

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Re:Sweden Runs Out of Garbage With Waste-to-Energy by mattm on Thursday August 01, 2013 @08:32PM (#6144654)

I've never understood porters in hotels. You've just transported your bags for possibly thousands of miles and many hours but they are going to take them the last few meters to your room by elevator on a cart and then they expect a tip for it.

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Re:Sweden Runs Out of Garbage With Waste-to-Energy by jacalata on Thursday August 01, 2013 @09:18PM (#6144814)

In the civilised days when they began, I assume you had just been chauffeured to the hotel and the chauffeur has handed your bags off to the porter.

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Re:Sweden Runs Out of Garbage With Waste-to-Energy by sgdnogb2n on Thursday August 01, 2013 @09:51PM (#6144903)

Maybe you'd still be wheezing from all of the road dust you'd been inhaling in the carriage the entire ride.

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