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"There’s a child’s pink bicycle helmet that Mr. Orta dug out from the garbage bin across the street from Mr. Zuckerberg’s house. And a vacuum cleaner, a hair dr
by gwern 8y ago
"There’s a child’s pink bicycle helmet that Mr. Orta dug out from the garbage bin across the street from Mr. Zuckerberg’s house. And a vacuum cleaner, a hair dryer, a coffee machine — all in working condition — and a pile of clothes that he carried home in a Whole Foods paper bag retrieved from Mr. Zuckerberg’s bin...“It just amazes me what people throw away,” he said one night, as he found a pair of gently used designer jeans, a new black cotton jacket, gray Nike running sneakers and a bicycle pump. “You never know what you will find.”...In the blue recycling bin marked with Mr. Zuckerberg’s address, there were A&W diet root beer cans, cardboard boxes and a junk mail credit card offer. In the black landfill bin were remnants of a chicken dinner, a stale baguette and Chinese takeout containers."
Zuckerberg and his fellow millionaires/billionaires sure are living it up there.
- leetcrew 8y agoreusing bicycle helmets is somewhat questionable. certainly a found helmet is better than no helmet, but best practice is to discard these after a major fall. not a great idea to use a helmet of unknown provenance.
- germinalphrase 8y agoThis is true and often overlooked. Bicycle helmets are usually designed as a “single impact” device. Does it mean you need to toss them out after any minor bump? No - but if you take a real fall, replace your helmet.
- beenBoutIT 8y agoAny bump, no, but any bump where the helmet provided any service to the wearer, yes.
- jstarfish 8y agoThey also have an expiration date even without impact. Same with child car seats, another popular curbside treasure. Replace them every few years.
- fenwick67 8y agoThere's an amazing documentary titled "queen of Versailles" about a nouveau-riche family in Florida. The family goes to Walmart all the time and they have like 20 games of Monopoly, each kid has 10 bicycles they never ride, it's surprising but rich people also just buy a bunch of crap.
- toephu2 8y agoI don't think it would be a fair assumption that rich people buy a bunch of crap just because you saw one rich family doing it in a documentary.
- jstarfish 8y agoIndeed, the wealthiest people you don't know are the ones who don't do stupid things like conspicuously consume. There are more millionaires among your neighbors than they tend to let on.
- Galaxity 8y agoOk, but the OP's point seems to be that Zuckerberg is not buying a "bunch of crap" based on his garbage. Hence the ironic "living it up".
- achillesheels 8y agoThere needs to be a proper segmentation of wealthy. Your anecdote is of the quintessentially uneducated “get rich or die trying” population, where money is the new solar deity.