Garbage
My friend Stephen picks up garbage as he walks along. When he has a handful, he deposits it in a bin.
When you first encounter this behaviour, it seems eccentric, although I don’t think Stephen would mind being thought of as eccentric. However thinking about it a bit more, I can see a powerful logic.
See, a proportion of the people are going to drop garbage as they walk around. The proportion may vary, but we can assume it will never be zero. I guess some other garbage just blows or rolls away when people are looking the other way.
Faced with this, we have two directions we can go: we can be like Greece, where every inch of ground, every street, every national park, every beach is covered in garbage; or a proportion of us can pick up garbage.
The interesting question is; what proportion? And should they be paid employees, prisoners on day-release, or people like Stephen?
