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Well, I hate to break it to you, but your desire not to see human desperation and to remove the things that make it apparent, does not make it go away.

People do these jobs because there's a market for the items in question, and because they're poor. Taking away a deposit (which helps lubricate the return process of useful materials and gives people a reason to value them) for your conscience sake will not make the poverty go away.

Clearly people do throw away cans and bottles when it's not convenient, and these people who clearly don't have better opportunities in front of them, get some minimal (though unfortunate) employment which they choose to do.

Go work to eliminate poverty. Not the outward indicators of it.




Also, in terms of things that they could be doing, sorting trash is like one of the least bad things they could be doing.

Eliminate that and people would probably switch to something more unsavory and harmful to society.




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