I can simply sum up how I see scrappers sort of like this.
In the universe, the world, nature, everything we are involved in there exists chaos and order, one doesn't exist without the other and both are required for life to keep churning. Making order out of chaos is most important when we realize that civilization can be defined by the amount of order that can be applied to chaos. However, as a by-product of order there is waste produced, which is order being returned to chaos.
Scrappers will always be needed, and in greater and greater numbers as more and more of the world becomes more and more civilized, because scrapers take the chaos produced by civilization, the by product of order, and return it back into order, the more civilization, the more waste and chaos produced, the more opportunity, the more need for scrappers to turn it into order.
Scott
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