• Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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    10 months ago

    I think it has more to do with the fact trees require more maintenance, like raking up leaves and fruit, and having to saw off branches.

    Also those roots can break pavement and pipes.

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      10 months ago

      You really think those massive, experimental water tanks won’t require more maintenance, because you have to trim trees once ever few years? Or because their roots might grow too much?

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      10 months ago

      Well of course, you can’t give working class people any money for working, you can only give them a slave-wage. That’s why all manufacturing was outsourced to very underdeveloped countries when NAFTA was first put into place.

      You can easily get away with exploiting people who have no other choice but to work for a dollar per year, but it’s much more difficult to do that to someone’s neighbor in their community.