It makes sense when you think of it less as a beurocrat taking issue with cleaning trash, and more like the ruling class making sure the poors don’t get any ideas that the world can be better, since they might decide to hold them to doing something to help.
Emphasis mine. I feel like that’s at the crux of the whole issue and the article doesn’t attempt to dig in.
What did they remove? I find it hard to believe that even the pettiest of bureaucrats would take issue with someone picking up actual trash.
He rented a backhoe and was actually digging up the river bed.
https://youtu.be/Kj9Hvdzu_zw
Organic debris is kinda vague, that could be twigs or a bakery’s worth of white bread.
It makes sense when you think of it less as a beurocrat taking issue with cleaning trash, and more like the ruling class making sure the poors don’t get any ideas that the world can be better, since they might decide to hold them to doing something to help.