You're welcome!

EDIT: I apparently fell for a fake news Lemmy community. Its explained in the sidebar. I gave the OP the benefit of the doubt that they couldn't link the real new story, but trusted the attribution to APNEWS. If you enjoy participating in OPs social experiment on posters you're in the right place. I'm not, so I'm out.

I'll be the first to say this could go very wrong, but for someone that is already homeless, this might be a step up. Employment usually requires the ability to sleep in a secure location consistently. Next would be bathing facilities I would guess. We don't know if bathing areas are included, but some employers I've seen it. I would imagine it would be difficult for a homeless person to work a job at Walmart without these two things, but if this checks the box allowing them to gain employment, it could be a critical step up from them to get their own housing outside of this Walmart pilot.

Enjoy being walmarts bitch I guess.

So instead you'd rather pay a "nightly fee" from your paycheck to live in a shoebox with no space where you can't access the bathroom when you're not on the clock, and you're stacked with your fellow workers in the back corner of a warehouse?

Have fun with that.

I'd prefer my residence not be tied to whether or not my at-will employer likes me.

This is the test case for your job owning where you live. It always starts as something to "help" the workers. Before long, wages fall / prices rise, and then the benevolent company is there with open arms to welcome you into its new, cheaper alternative.

Don't believe it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTCen9-RELM

Hard disagree. Chop me up after I die. If my eyes can make someone see if my skin can help someone burned take it

That’s some truly evil shit to fuck with bees. Not to mention short sighted and leading to problems the world over.

How tf is ecological collapse an anarchist belief? Either the reporting or Patel really misunderstood their theory

Shut the fuck up and let the 1% choke on cancer offal

Rational actors or no, bodily autonomy should be respected. We shouldn't be taking toenails without consent any more then we should be taking kidneys after they die.

Yeah I don't like that

You mock her but her work will be used in the far future to clone and bring back the homeless.

I think you are vastly oversimplifying a unique interpersonal situation. I'm not certain how much interactions you have had throughout your life with the homeless population. In my personal experience the ones that would need this type of service are not always all the way there. Not always rational actors. I would expect that yes she could take time and explain what's happening with the waste but that would lessen the amount of people willing to receive help. .What people should be focusing on is that this woman is going out there to treat and help these people in a self sustainable manner.

To frame this another way. If this lady was cleaning streets and creating art from trash and selling it, would anybody care?

Ultimately clipped toenails are worthless trash. It's the work she puts into them to make them into jewelry that has value.

Main problem here is about consent. She should have asked/been upfront.

I mean it's icky but she's helping people and paying herself to help the people. That's a win-win in my book.

I am in the minority I guess because I absolutely would wear this. Sign me up!

Is this real?

I'll file this in my head right along with breast milk cheese.

:C

It looks nice, actually.

Not all, but evidently a nonzero percentage.

I was wondering about that. Maybe since the shops he partners with know what he's doing with the hair, they only sweep up long fibers for him?