Gregory's Server@AlexanderKingsbury I think the majority of us are just flawed humans trying our best, doing some good and some harm, and its overly simplistic to describe most of us as good or bad. But I also believe the people hoarding that much of the planets resources are killing us and that does change my calculations.
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@AlexanderKingsbury I think our problems are systemic and ultimately it's complicated, but if you're hoarding more resources than most of us earn in a lifetime I'm at the very least suspicious of you. You do not get to be one of the richest in this sick system, and stay there, without crushing many underfoot. Simply her and other billionaires use of private jets is killing people. @AlexanderKingsbury @kitoconnell Well put; scapegoating (judging people as a group to blame them collectively for stuff) is not exclusively a right-wing thing. Even though the targets are not nearly as vulnerable (so I’m not *that* bothered) the line of thinking is eerily similar. @mkoek @AlexanderKingsbury as a silent tear falls down the cheeks of all the billionaires on my friends list... @mkoek @AlexanderKingsbury more seriously, there's something fundamentally different to me between lumping the 12 or 15 richest people on earth (or whatever it is now) together into one group, and lumping together an actually vulnerable, oppressed group. Billionaires aren't subject to harmful marginalization. Things can be surface level similar without being the same. |
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Do you have a specific amount of wealth where someone becomes fundamentally a bad person? A billion dollars apparently makes someone bad; is that the exact number? Can you have $500 million and not be a bad person?