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there’s a big difference between “food waste” as in “farmers destroy tons of food to avoid exceeding quotas” or “supermarkets throw away this much edible food because it doesn’t sell”
and “food waste” as in “it is not actually within the capacity of humans to perfectly predict and track household food consumption, so a certain amount of food per household inevitably goes bad and has to be thrown out every year”
the idea that food waste is the product of thoughtless consumers rather than corporate greed is really insidious
(via uninucleus)
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Both Squidward and Spongebob can afford their own two-story houses with enough money left over for things like snail food and art supplies, they are both fast food workers with a boss that is shown on several occasions to pay them as little as possible
Furthermore, characters like Plankton can afford his own restaurant, machines, and computer despite not selling a single burger, Patrick similarly has his own place and lifestyle while rarely shown to actually work
In this essay we will examine the idea of a universal basic income that exists in the SpongeBob universe that provides
(via stability)