Damn, thank god we killed plastic straws for people with sensitive mouth problems. Thank god Musk can ride his jet 24/7.
This infuriates me.
I would actually love to do more to REDUCE my carbon footprint, but it’s prohibitively expensive to.
But billionaires (and millionaires) can literally greenify every aspect of their lives, even be carbon-neutral or carbon negative! But they choose not to.
I think taxing the rich just isn’t enough. We need to CAP the rich. There should be no billionaires.
They can spend millions trying to reduce everyone’s carbon footprints. Like literally they can lobby for trains and shit. But no they won’t.
Some do
Carefully Autopsy their Person?
Sounds good.
So stop eating cows and eat the rich instead?
Whether or not you eat the rich, please consider stopping eating the cows.
Please don’t use this as an excuse for. “It doesn’t matter how much I emit then”.
Use this as motivation for grassroots and political action aiming to stop the concept of billionaire from existing.
Fuck yeah! You get it.
I’m glad you addressed this. As soon as I read the title of the post, I knew there would be people who use it as an excuse not to try to do what they can to reduce their negative affects. Which is so incredibly frustrating. Every! Little! Bit! Counts!
Also I doubt anyone in this comment section is average.
The average sits somewhere between us and the all the people in third world country who emit practically no carbon pollution
I think I just found out I can reverse my entire life’s footprint if I can manage to blow smoke in one billionaire’s face.
Probably two lives, given their security will likely shoot you in the face.
ACAB.
… billionaires’ security are not cops
True, there’s no masking in private security.
Well they both use the threat of violence to reinforce the status quo. So in my mind they are effectively the same.
I feel like that’s missing the point of ACAB.
The problem with cops is that there are good cops who generally behave well and genuinely want to serve and protect their communities. The reason they’re still bastards is because of the unions that they keep (and support). They have some bad apples, and not removing them from the bunch means the bunch gets spoiled.
The problem with cops is that there are good cops who
generally behave well and genuinely want to serve and protect their communitiesdo not report bad cops.They are law enforcement, enforce the law. No exceptions.
Yes, I agree completely. I was just explaining that it’s not ACAB because literally all cops are out there getting away with extrajudicial beatings. It’s ACAB because they don’t throw out the bad apples (aka. don’t report bad cops)
Bargain.
The only way to stop it is when we’re hungry enough, and it’s time to eat.
wow they must be breathing really hard then
Of course… Work hard, breath hard… A million times harder than you or me, based on income… /s
There is no such thing as an innocent billionaire.
There are no innocent millionaires. The threshold of wealth that requires some seriously unethical behaviour is pretty low.
What do you count as innocent? Like doesn’t use products made in factories with human rights violations? I’m never gonna hit a million, but economists are saying we all need to have a Mil or three in order to retire? I know a couple million airs who seem like normal people, they’re just business owners?
I mean there is no way to goss a million a year without directly and knowingly exploiting people on a daily basis.
Millionaire refers to total wealth or cash on hand, not annual salary. Someone making $1M a year is probably worth $100M+ if they own stocks and may be well on their way to billionaire.
That’s not true you can earn a few million from hard work. Its rare these days, but doable. Still pennies compared to Elon et. al. I think the cutoff should be between 50-100 million. After that we name a park after you and you get a trophy for winning at capitalism. Congrats or whatever, but we’re taking the rest.
Whatever the threshold, it needs to be indexed to inflation and COL in the local area.
You definitely can not become a millionaire on YOUR hard work. It takes the hard work of other people working for you. And unless you over charging for their work or under paying them for their work, you aren’t going to be making millions.
I disagree, since the Internet allows indie studios for things like music and games to reach a massive audience. Selling your indie game that you made with your friends for $20 to 300k people makes you a millionaire without exploiting anyone. As long as you can avoid publishers leeching most of that away… Plenty of people also have become millionaires just by selling their house and moving somewhere cheaper.
I made millions by buying bitcoin years ago. Who did I exploit?
You could say others who bought in later than you, but regardless I wouldn’t really classify that as “hard work”.
For perspective, that’s over 400,000x as much. As in 40,000,000%.
When no one was looking, Lex Luthor polluted forty million percent more than an average person. He polluted 40,000,000% more. That’s as many as four tens (times a million)%. And that’s terrible.
At some point, things are gonna get bad enough that the masses will turn on them. That’s why they’re all buying islands and building bunkers. We should do it now, while it can make a difference.
Allowing to self exile to islands will make it easier to trap them. Simply destroy their means of leaving.
Bunkers are even easier, burying them in trash.
Don’t worry, I got this. I went to the shop by foot today instead of driving.
