They don’t care about serving good coffee at affordable prices either. I drink black coffee and their Pike Roast tastes like burnt flavor crystals.
So Starbucks’ CEO commutes to work by private jet? Let’s not pretend the super-rich care about the planet
Submitted 3 weeks ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s an apartheid.
Their wealth can protect them from climate change, so they have no good reason to change their behavior.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Increasingly I think it actually might protect them. Not in a postapocalyptic bunker or a private island but rather in the upper echelons of a less climate-striken country. One where there’s still a functioning society, enough labor to sustain an economy and a compliant political and law enforcement classes happy to maintain some form of apartheid. The Arabian peninsula countries could be a model.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh, definitely. In most countries the wealthy can simply buy citizenship.
veganpizza69@lemmy.vg 3 weeks ago
As long as the markets are open, the “free market” will ensure that they comfortable. That’s the purpose of the free market. They only suffer when markets close (and their money becomes useless).
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Why do you think these creeps are so exciting about building walls and murdering refugees?
Fortress europe and fortress canada must be defended against the desperate masses.
nehal3m@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
You can’t eat money. They might live comfortably for longer but eventually they’ll be just as turbo fucked as we are.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not soon enough, they won’t, unfortunately.
the_tab_key@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I would say I would boycott Starbucks, but that would imply they have a product I desire.
SoGrumpy@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I’ve never been in a Starbucks.The thought of drinking coffee that isn’t does not appeal to me.
Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
You could go into a Starbucks while it’s busy, and when it’s your turn to order go. “I want a … thing. One of those … cylindrical” Basically, try to waste as much of the workers time as possible, without actually ordering anything. An important thing is that there’s people waiting behind you, so that you waste their time as well.
rehydrate5503@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Or just order water? It’s free for you, but costs the company money, while not making it difficult for the employees. Doing what you suggested is all around shitty for the workers who are just trying to get through their day and earn a wage, as well as the people in line wanting a drink. The company will not be affected in any way with your suggestion.
I’ve been boycotting the company for years now, even the items you can get in grocery stores (since at least some of them are made by Nestle, so double boycott points). Anytime anyone suggests we grab starbucks, I offer an alternative and we end up trying a local coffee shop or other non-terrible franchise.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
In Ministry for the Future, one of the major plot points partway through the book is that eco-terrorists (eco-partisans, really, considering the subject matter and general gist of the book) start blasting planes out of the sky. They hit a few civilian airliners, but the vast majority of their targets are private jets.
Do with that what you will.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
My take is that the super wealthy already know there’s no saving this mess, and they won’t survive much longer either, so they’re just squeezing the lemon for whatever juice is left before it all blows sky high.
AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This has been their mentality since late 70s
monogram@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
🧑🚀🔫👨🚀
It has always been their mentality.
thurstylark@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
match@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
we could very reasonably get rid of CEOs
demizerone@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And private jets. And mega yachts.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Remove one. Another CEO will take their place.
Makhno@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So we start beating them in the street in front of their families until they stop ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Piemanding@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I mean, if leaders would start getting mass executed they’d start caring.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
how much carbon dioxide does this produce, expressed in cars/day?
ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I want to know in paper straws per day.
wabafee@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Can you put banana for miles travelled.
ODGreen@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
The commute itself? Hard to say. But according to the article, a billionaire produces emissions equivalent to a million average people.
There are 3,311 billionaires.
Once they are eliminated, that’s the emissions of 3.3 billion people taken care of.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
veganpizza69@lemmy.vg 3 weeks ago
It’s actually difficult to estimate, but there are ways to calculate it. I gave up because I found one part of data expressed in CO2e per mile, another in CO2e per hour, and yet others with CO2 instead of CO2e. If I get into calculating that, I’m going to require funding.
Fixbeat@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Now that is a punchable face.
Grass@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
how do they all do it? It’s like going over a certain threshold of wealth makes ones face take one some subtle traits that increase the desire of others to punch.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 3 weeks ago
“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.” ― William Gibson, Count Zero
drdiddlybadger@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Hope it’s a boeing
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If it’s a boeing, he ain’t going…to reach his destination.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
People don’t achieve ultimate privilege by caring about other people.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Jesus, if I remember correctly, usually travelled by donkey or by foot
If Jesus had access to it, he’d totally be a fixed gear bicycle cat zooming through the alleyways of Jerusalem.
Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
BMX Jesus FTW
Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
But would he take it off sweet jumps?
roguetrick@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Scribbd@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Reminded me of that music video: youtu.be/VQSbIzfcURs
tilefan@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
so does Taylor Swift
Snapz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Starbucks just can’t stop shooting itself in the foot. Just when it had given some concessions to the union. Fuck Starbucks.
answersplease77@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This CEO is getting paid $113 millions a year while their workers live on tips. I hope they face bigger boycotts and bigger losses
deltreed@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I bet every one of his corporate employees has to commute to work though. Hypocrites.
AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They do care about supporting genocide though
timestatic@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
There is no defending this but let’s not pretend they are some homogeneous group!
beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Idk, billionaires are homogeneous where it counts, & for the majority of them, the way they got it or the way they use that wealth & power speaks to parasitic & sociopathic tendencies, SO I’m super frikkin ok treating them as a homogeneous group
timestatic@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Let me give you one example: Yvon Chouinard, the founder of Patagonia. He gave the company away to a non-profit 2022 making him no longer a billionaire. Patagonia gives 1% of its total sales to environmental groups and he started the company himself by selling hand-forged mountain climbing gear. Just because people don’t make the negative headlines doesn’t mean generalizing is a good idea, even if such high positions are more likely to have people with sociopathic tendencies as ruthlessness in business is often rewarded.
DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Starbucks is HORRIBLE for the planet
MutatedHorse@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“Work”
Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Is anyone tracking the location of his jet?
BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I wonder… Who ever pretended that though?
modifier@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
…the super rich themselves?
BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“Let’s not pretend the super-rich care…” is not the same as “the super-rich should stop pretending they care”
BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
When where? Haven’t heard that message for a while. Do you mean Elon just because he sells EVs?
Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Remember when all those politicians, actors, and activists went to that global climate change meeting on private planes?
Rich ppl will do nothing if it even inconveniences them a smidgen.
steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Most people won’t. But rich people especially won’t.
match@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
unlike rich people, most people can be incentivized or compelled to behave
veganpizza69@lemmy.vg 3 weeks ago
Yeah… most people want to be like those rich people.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
People like to point at rich people on planes but really it’s the cars that are destroying the planet.
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
rich people decide whether we can make the changes necessary