Comments on: Affirmative Action http://www.priorworks.com/blog/2007/03/25/affirmative-action/ The Complete and Unabridged PriorBlog Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:20:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: clark http://www.priorworks.com/blog/2007/03/25/affirmative-action/#comment-119 Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:11:37 +0000 http://www.priorworks.com/blog/2007/03/25/affirmative-action/#comment-119 "My novel, The Yoke of the Horde, features one of these can collectors in a prominent role." Well they do say, write about what you know. As to the meta-issue -- whether to give the cans away to the bums -- but *are* they bums when they work so hard to retrieve returnables? -- or recycle them oneself to recoup the deposit investment -- I find that when I'm on my game I can earn $50/hour at Marty's Redemption Center's machines, not counting travel time because I'd be going there to buy some new beer anyway. To waste those good wages on can men is just creepy, besides which, afterwards I feel so... redeemed. “My novel, The Yoke of the Horde, features one of these can collectors in a prominent role.” Well they do say, write about what you know.

As to the meta-issue — whether to give the cans away to the bums — but *are* they bums when they work so hard to retrieve returnables? — or recycle them oneself to recoup the deposit investment — I find that when I’m on my game I can earn $50/hour at Marty’s Redemption Center’s machines, not counting travel time because I’d be going there to buy some new beer anyway. To waste those good wages on can men is just creepy, besides which, afterwards I feel so… redeemed.

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