Originally Posted By: Faldage
I believe Max is just editorializing. On the other hand, these freegans, far from rejecting capitalism, are depending on it. Without the culture that would throw food away because it's more costly to keep it than it is to dispose of it they would starve.


I agree.

If they really wanted to absent themselves from capitalism, as Weissman states, they shouldn't be all a-twitter at finding a television (see beginning of article).

Just because the person is the second owner, it doesn't change the provenance of the item (the place of manufacture) or whether or not the employees were paid reasonable wages.

A five-year-old child that is used in slave labour to make a carpet doesn't get any more money because you've picked the carpet up in the garbage.

Or am I misunderstanding Weissman's quote?