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Why is it okay to pay less than minimum wage and deny benefits to what are essentially misclassified sanitation workers?


Taking bottles out of recycling bins is not doing useful labor.


And no one asked them to or hired them to do the work. It's like calling someone a street sweeper because they picked up a dime off the sidewalk. Sure it's money in their pocket but it's not exactly a job.


They’re definitely not sanitation workers. On my street the homeless constantly empty full public trash bins all over the sidewalk looking for bottles and cans.




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