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Originally Posted by angle_shooter
He earned that 40k by age 14 the old fashion way. While all his classmates were having fun at lunch Rice was tirelessly roaming the playground collecting discarded plastic bottles.
Before and after school he would also go through all the neighbourhood trash in search of valuable bottles that had been foolishly thrown out.
a mere 800,000 bottles
but in all seriousness, my first jobs were in food service and we often did big events with lots of people
everything normally went into the trash but i'd make a special effort to setup big trash cans and label it "bottles and cans" and it worked pretty well as many of the hundreds of people would throw them in there instead of the trash
when work was over, i'd get my parents to pick me up in their minivan, which i'd absolutely fill to the brim with these bags of bottles and cans
i'd then get them to take me into the recycling center and from that huge bonanza get about $30