Interview with a recycler in Reykjavik, Iceland. He works four hours a day taking discarded bottles to recycling and says he makes a good living at it. I don’t know exactly what “good” means, but he pays for his “own” apartment —that he presumably lives in without roommates. That alone is huge. In many US cities, you can’t even do that working as a software engineer forty hours a week. He’s done it for eighteen years.
He said he does it because he doesn’t want to work for somebody else. I relate so hard to this. Where is my recycling job??