• Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    13 hours ago

    And not only do they not use any of their money to improve the world, they actually actively use it to buy up every media platform, prop up right wingers and make as many people suffer as possible. More than they already suffer that is, thanks to a system that allows these pieces of shit to amass enough wealth to last multiple lifetimes while others have to work two jobs and still not earn enough to live without hardship.

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    17 hours ago

    Imagine life was a game. You lived for 2025 years. You worked 260 days / year. You made the median US salary.

    You would need to relive that process 3,145 times to match an Oligarch.

    That amount of wealth is unethical while humanity suffers. No one can really fathom “1b dollars.”

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        16 hours ago

        maybe. it might also be that most of the damage is the result of a few particular bad actors… arguably a large amount of the runaway environmental destruction we’ve witnessed is the accumulated result of a very small portion of the population being allowed to do whatever the fuck they want whenever the fuck they want for ~200 years?

        we could test this theory out, empirically. I propose an experiment where we, um, neutralize, the top 1% who directly facilitate eco-cide in pursuit of corporate profits and then we’ll see if nature improves.

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    18 hours ago

    Just remember, there’s no such thing as infinite growth. These people are just getting better at extracting wealth from us.

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    10 hours ago

    thiel not being one of them, how strange, im guessing because he doesnt control a social media platform, he might known this as he wouldve gotten more flak if he had owned one.

  • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.ch
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    18 hours ago

    It’s always jarring to me just how ugly the “superwealthy” are. It’s like their blatant greed and disregard for others can’t be hidden however hard they might try.