To me, it seemed less like he thought it was real, and more like he was just being deliberately belligerently obtuse knowing that his followers would believe him anyway.
At any rate, what I was trying to say was that recycling doesn't solve every problem poor people face. I didn't say "Don't recycle if you're poor because it does nothing."
See, I agree with you, but I've also been virtually beheaded because of stupid people who don't understand what I believe to be very clear satire. So it's lose-lose.
The point is that doing little things like reducing reusing and recycling are not the end-all be-all solution to being broke. I'm saying that doing moral things doesn't automatically give you a liveable life; it doesn't magically make everything ok.
Oh that's easy! Just tell everyone you're an investment banker so you're always typing dollars and it just does that now. Of course, then you'd have to live with people thinking you were an investment banker, so... Options.
Oh man I love Gnarls Barkley