What's with all the garbage everywhere in america? is gotham supposed to be detroit or something??

Why did this picture make me laugh?

70's new York was so corrupt that when the corporations moved in during the 80's basic infrastructure broke down because all the people who knew how to keep it running were gutted. It was a neccessary part of rebuilding the utilities without mafia influence but you try telling that to somebody walking past rows of garbage on their way to work in the morning.
Not that I'm endorsing what big business did to New York in the 80's and 90's, ultimately the city was trading one kind of corruption for another and the irony is that statistically speaking modern New York isn't any more efficient in it administration of social services than 60's & 70's New York, it's just that wages for the working class have fallen along with violent crime rates in Manhattan (but not the outer Burroughs) while production remains the same. You got to pick your poison I guess.

You've never been to Detroit. Fuck off

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1987 New York produced the garbage barge lmao

I went to NY once and it was disgusting. Smoke comes out of sewers and the rats are cat sized mutants. Shit is disgusting

America is garbage.

>Smoke
That's condensation

Fun fact, in the comics joker acually spends 6 months disrupting garbage mens work(such as calling them to a location but there are no garbage to collect an so on) which eventually pays off as most of garbagemen quit. This is acually why he reffers to himself a the joker because of the numerous pranks e.i. "jokes" he pulls on the garbage collectors

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Cities are like that, only mentally ill people choose to cram themselves together so tightly.

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thanks bro

cuz it looks like some shit from Fallout.

It’s because the bins would immediately get stolen. New York is a shithole with absolutely zero trust in neighbors.

There just seems to be a garbage fire in the middle of a neighborhood and no shits are given.

Thanks nigga, I needed that.

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Nobody else responded so I'm just gonna say: thanks for the neat little bit of history, user.

Is this from Wolfen?

I live in Philadelphia, not NY, but I presume the situation is similar as well as in other old major cities.
Old houses, like 100+ years old or more, tend to have narrow alleyways, and wheely bins are too wide to fit down the alleyways.
If you leave the bins out front, they block the sidewalks, which are sometimes very narrow, and people steal the bins, because they don’t want to pay for one, or need an extra one, or want something to mix concrete in, or other reasons.
Narrow back alleys also don’t have enough room to store the Wheelie bins, where they can wind up blocking the alleyway or back street.
Lots of houses also don’t have a place to store the large Wheelie bins.
In large buildings, you would need a way to get the bins down to the street, and elevators are expensive as hell to fix if broken, and in old industrial buildings, the elevators routinely get broken, because the landlords are sheisters.

The “smoke” is from steam lines, that are used to heat and generate power for large mostly older buildings in the City.
Most major cities used to and still do have steam generating plants that pump steam thru underground pipes to heat and power buildings.
The vost is usually low compared to electric, but you need to own a building along one of the main pipe routes or you have to sign a really long contract.