Ok, the title sounds formal, like maybe I'm gonna throw some empirical research at you or something. Naw. Just thought you should read BadTux the Snarky Penguin on "Gleaners" . To tease you with an excerpt, here's the last paragraph.
In the future there will be two kinds of people: The filthy rich (the top 1%), and the rest of us, who will make our living as gleaners upon whatever junk they've thrown out. Perhaps I should have been making an effort to talk to some of the people gleaning stuff off my street and get some tips, given that I was looking at the future of America, and indeed probably my own future at some point, right outside my front door...
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