Nation's Poorest 1% Now Controls Two-Thirds Of U.S. Soda Can Wealth

[OrangeEmpire]

Nation's Poorest 1% Now Controls Two-Thirds Of U.S. Soda Can Wealth | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

WASHINGTON—A report on growing disparities in the concentration of U.S. aluminum-can wealth, released Tuesday by the Department of Commerce, revealed that 66 percent of the nation's recyclable assets are now held by the poorest 1 percent of the population.
According to the sobering report, the disproportionate distribution of soda-can wealth is greater than ever before, and has become one of the worst instances of economic inequality in the nation's history. Data showed that over-salvaging of cans by a small and elite group of can-horders has created a steadily growing and possibly unbridgeable gap between the rich and the mega-poor.

Thoughts?

 

[VolBeef88]

:lolabove:

 

[KB5252]

I want my share of the aluminum wealth! Maybe its time for the gov. to get involved, I am in favor of aluminum redistribution, guess Obama would be my candidate.

 

[SWIL]

this is newsworthy??

 

[OrangeEmpire]

this is newsworthy??

This is a major issue!

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[milohimself]

LOL

There are actually 15-20 homeless people with shopping carts patrolling my neighborhood every night. If I'm too lazy to take the cans to the store for recycling, then I just set them out on my curb and they are gone in the morning.

 

[allvol123]

Alcoa is the group that secretly runs this nationwide network of can horders.