Freaking people who leave their carts in a parking spot… Straight to the top of the list!
Over here in Germany using a shopping cart "costs" between 50 Cents and 2 €. You have to put a coin in them to release the chain by which they are attached to eachother. Of course when you return the cart and close the lock you get your coin back.
Little metal plates without monetary value but still the right size are common marketing gifts by companies and organizations yet they still provide mostly the same unconscious effect of "I want my coin back".
Of course there are also people who use little gadgets to unlock the carts without putting anything in but I wouldnt know about such things...
That's one of the things Aldi brought with them when they came over to the US. I've always thought it was a pretty cool idea, though as inflation keeps going the 25-cent lock-in becomes less and less of a motivator. Maybe a good reminder, though.
With how rarely I use cash I need my quarter back so I can use it to get a cart next time.
We have these at airports in the US for luggage carts - though they don’t return any of your money if you bring the cart back they l’ve seen, so it doesn’t do much to modify behavior.
Want to know a sad irony? The cart returns are usually really far from the handicap spots. Parking is close to the store. But the returns are halfway down the aisle.
If everyone put them away, the person hired to put the carts back would lose their job. Plus, supermarkets may consider having more than 1 trolley area that isn't miles away from the cars parked there so they can ram more cars in there.
"I'm a job creator!" I yell, as I shit on the floor of the DMV. "If everyone did this they would have to hire more janitors!" The police drag me away. "I'm opening new avenues for employment in our police department!"
Just in case you forgot the /s tag, that person's job isn't to collect the carts scattered across the parking lot, it's to move the carts from the cart area to inside the store. The right way to handle the lack of cart areas isn't to make the workers job harder, it's to complain to the store.
If the grocery store didn't have to spend money putting carts away, the same person could be working inside the store where it's warm and dry. Shitty people are preventing everyone else from better service and/or lower prices.
Man, Elon is on that list 7 times.
What makes you think he puts the cart away?
What makes you think he ever uses carts?
By definition he doesn't put them away then.
Exactly
So long as politicians are all painted with the same negative brush, there's no room for anyone with a genuine interest in improving things. There are some truly great, caring people in politics working hard to do the right thing. It's not their fault the public keeps voting for assholes.
I've often felt that genuine politicians can't possibly have it easy.
To even get started, step one is getting in bed with social media.
No wonder coal as a fossil fuel isn’t going away. The rich folk get so much during Christmas!
Many of my landlords were pretty decent people who actually cared about their tenants tho.
Don't forget how many apartment buildings are owned by corporate landlords though. Western Canada has a huuuge problem with the slumlord billionaires at Mainstreet and others.
The out-of-date data I can find has 35% of BC apartments as investor-owned.
I guess that's likely the difference. With the big company owned apartments you usually deal with a super intendant or building manager instead of the landlord directly. So the renter is seen as a faceless number rather than an actual person to the owners you are paying money to. There's a lack of empathy towards the renter.
Is that why they stole their money?
Stole whose money? My money? My stove broke, they replaced it, pest issue, they paid for the exterminator, roof leaking, they paid for it to be fixed, many other examples but you get the idea. I didn't pay utilities in some places. I've had bad landlords and I moved house because of them and didn't do them any favours when I left. The good ones I made sure I was a good tenant for. I think a lot of renters don't understand how expensive owning a place is with upkeep. We wouldn't be able to replace a furnace or roof repair and all that jazz in our income bracket.
Landlords buy an essential good just so they can squeeze money out of their renters. Housing should never be seen as an investment, yet these parasites do.
There is a huge difference between a private owner, and a corporation. Anyhow they might have a common approach, I would say estate ownership should be limited to a certain number through incremental taxation the more you own the larger the tax bracket, like we do for income
I am offended on behalf of the good people I know who made it so we could have housing when we can't afford a mortgage or the housing upkeep costs. They were investments to them sure but they cared about their tenants. Call in the middle of the evening because the toilet wasn't working and they came quickly with a brand new toilet. Couldn't make that months rent till the middle of the month , no problem, pay when you can type thing. Every single landlord aren't the devils you want them to be. I agree some of them are bad because I've had that experience too. I think maybe you should be angry with the banks and the giant conglomerates who pay you shit wages making you too poor to afford a mortgage or the upkeep for home ownership. I am not willing to lump all landlords in the same shit pile. I've seen second hand what being house poor is like. House is falling apart because they can't afford to maintain it. Wearing winter coats inside because the furnace broke and can't afford to fix it, not having a working toilet and shitting in a bucket with a trash bag. Also imagine having to buy a new house everytime you moved to a new town or different area of a big city. Renting a home or an apartment has a place in society.
For profit housing tho is kinda bad don't you think? I'm not talking about one guy making a respectable living off running an apartment complex
I see Luigi isn't on the naughty list. Based Santa.
Krampus should the entire US healthcare industry.
This is a severe attack against people who don't put their carts away.
Their actions just leave a small inconvenience for other people .... their actions don't wholesale destroy the lives of entire groups of people or cause outright war, genocide, death or destruction.
People who don't mind making the world a little bit worse for literally everyone else if it saves them some small amount of effort are the real monsters, because they think they're not.
...
I mean, ok, genocide is bad, too, I suppose.
You are right of course, but that's part of the joke. I think it's provokes such a viseral response because it's directly "against" the reader, not many of us can claim to be directly impacted by genocide for example, even though it's way worse.
Everyone agrees you should put your cart away, but there is no reward for doing so and no punishment for not doing it. Therefore it says a lot about the individual if they will "do the right thing" just because it makes things slightly better for other people, or if they won't bother doing a simple act in order to avoid inconveniencing someone else if they aren't forced to do so.
For such a simple act, it shows an extreme amount of selfishness to not do it.
Add data peddlers on the list.
I would like to add people who don't wipe down gym equipment after using it.
Fucking digesting animals.
I mean, most people are digesting animals, unless they're vegan.
All people are digesting animals because humans are animals who digest food.
Forgot the health insurance company CEOs.
CEOs?
If you are going to make me put a coin into a cart because you don't trust me to be an adult and tidy up after myself without being nannied, then I am going to do my damndest to bypass your lock and leave a mess out of spite.
In the shops where I am trusted and not required to pay a coin (I never even carry cash these days) I tidy up because that is the decent thing to do.
Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.
The rules are simple:
Web of links
