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 2 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 2 months ago
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Oh, definitely. In most countries the wealthy can simply buy citizenship.
veganpizza69@lemmy.vg 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Not soon enough, they won’t, unfortunately.
the_tab_key@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I would say I would boycott Starbucks, but that would imply they have a product I desire.
SoGrumpy@lemmy.ml 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
This has been their mentality since late 70s
monogram@feddit.nl 2 months ago
🧑🚀🔫👨🚀
It has always been their mentality.
thurstylark@lemm.ee 2 months ago
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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.
match@pawb.social 2 months ago
we could very reasonably get rid of CEOs
demizerone@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And private jets. And mega yachts.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Remove one. Another CEO will take their place.
Makhno@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So we start beating them in the street in front of their families until they stop ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Piemanding@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I mean, if leaders would start getting mass executed they’d start caring.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
how much carbon dioxide does this produce, expressed in cars/day?
ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I want to know in paper straws per day.
wabafee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Can you put banana for miles travelled.
ODGreen@slrpnk.net 2 months 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 2 months ago
veganpizza69@lemmy.vg 2 months 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 2 months ago
Now that is a punchable face.
Grass@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Hope it’s a boeing
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If it’s a boeing, he ain’t going…to reach his destination.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
People don’t achieve ultimate privilege by caring about other people.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
BMX Jesus FTW
Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
But would he take it off sweet jumps?
roguetrick@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Scribbd@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Reminded me of that music video: youtu.be/VQSbIzfcURs
tilefan@lemm.ee 2 months ago
so does Taylor Swift
Snapz@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
I bet every one of his corporate employees has to commute to work though. Hypocrites.
AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They do care about supporting genocide though
timestatic@feddit.org 2 months ago
There is no defending this but let’s not pretend they are some homogeneous group!
beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Starbucks is HORRIBLE for the planet
MutatedHorse@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“Work”
Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Is anyone tracking the location of his jet?
BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I wonder… Who ever pretended that though?
modifier@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
…the super rich themselves?
BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
When where? Haven’t heard that message for a while. Do you mean Elon just because he sells EVs?
Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
Most people won’t. But rich people especially won’t.
match@pawb.social 2 months ago
unlike rich people, most people can be incentivized or compelled to behave
veganpizza69@lemmy.vg 2 months ago
Yeah… most people want to be like those rich people.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months 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 2 months ago
rich people decide whether we can make the changes necessary