Americans would rather see food thrown away than taken by somebody they feel doesn't 'deserve' it.
However, that's less about deserving it, and more about the food being taken for someone's personal profit.
I also think most people would be happy for the food to go to those in need, but then for make reasons we have laws or business policies that forbid it... Starbucks doesn't want to pay 10 million dollars because an employee gave a homeless person food they we're allergic to... We do love lawsuits here..
I remember the last company I worked for that tried the whole "Free food if you stay a little late" thing. They'd buy a few boxes of pizzas and set them out int he break room with the expectation that you'd take a slice or two. Well, of course, eventually one or two people started taking entire boxes home for themselves and then that "perk" inevitably ended.
Yeah this sounds bad. If the company stops giving “free” pizza bc/ someone takes not 1/8 of a pizza but 1 pizza, then you know how much they value, or rather do not value your time.
Hard to see how a manager could be this inept.
You just described most AI companies.
My neighborhood has a small park that features a pear tree and a plethora of frost grapes. My wife and I are of a conservationist bent, so we monitor the plants in the park for any bad news and help keep the trails manicured. I can say that pear tree and grapes are both used wisely and with others in mind, as people from the neighborhood show up to take only what they need. One lady does take a lot, but she makes terrific jams then passes them around.
It's quite a positive culture around this park, and it was in place long before we moved there. It also goes against everything I otherwise tend to experience with my fellow Americans, namely greed and gluttony of consumerism.
Do you think a person who really needs to eat right now and the only option is picked fruit can also be the person who has access to a website with fruit tree map and a car to get there?
By the way if you know how plants grow and spread "get eaten by humans and pooped into sewer" is not always the best reproduction strategy and so throwing away is not always a waste.
And judging that some people don't deserve something is not always wrong unless you are philosophical extremist. If you have so many fruit trees around that anyone in need can pick one any time you probably don't live in an area where a map of fruit trees is useful. It's catch-22 isn't it?
You are missing the point - ofcourse those people exist, some people don’t deserve to breathe, think terrible crimes
The problems are:
1 - you are so preoccupied with that 1 guy who ‘does not deserve’ does not get free fruit, that you make life worse for 1,000 people who do
2 - are you the right person to judge who ‘deserves’ and who ‘doesn’t’. Who is the right person to judge? What if they are wrong? Who judges the judges?
