Originally Posted by goBigtime

But yet it goes without saying that every week he needs to make $x in order to survive. Or does he?

Perhaps there is so much discarded shit in this world (or at least in this country) that is still useable or consumable, that a very small number of people could live completely off of that crap that others throw away.

Sort of like those little fish that live around the mouths of sharks?

They get whatever is left over.