Reply 60 of 120, by TheAbandonwareGuy
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The recycling center in my area says all electronics cannot be sold or given away by them because there property of the county. I went to the county's site and it says "All items are not available for local sale or reuse" which I interpret as "we are selling this hardware to someone else far away who happens to be the highest bidder". I'm in Illinois where curbside electronics disposal is illegal so basically this makes scavenging impossible for me. I've found one good machine in two years and it wasn't anything super spectacular.
Western Hobbyists problem is that over here the man with the most money is the man who has what he desires. A poor man can put in as much effort as he likes, he will never have the best or most sought after items and half of what would otherwise be accessible to him his locked behind a chained gate due to some environmentalist bullshit saying that everything must be recycled in a specific manor.
The problem is quite simply put: Capitalism.
There are many things about civilization that make me realize human kind is unfit to govern itself and that our race has survived so long mearly by luck.
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I used to own over 160 graphics card, I've since recovered from graphics card addiction