Submitted 2 weeks ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
https://www.commondreams.org/news/19-richest-us-families
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.”
What a monster of a face she has. Sheesh. Faces reflect the person underneath.
Just remember, there’s no such thing as infinite growth. These people are just getting better at extracting wealth from us.
And none of them contribute a fucking thing to society.
If it werent for our oligarch overlords, how would Katy Perry get to space?
All of this extraction will have dire consequences.
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.
Zuckerberg, looks like he has alopecia universalis, like Stan Sitwell from Arrested Development.
While the rest of us got a trillion dollars poorer.
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.
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell
This is definitely worse than the golden age… Their supporters (conservatives) need to realize it, though.
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.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We’re being eaten alive.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The entire biosphere is being eaten alive
stopdropandprole@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 pursute of corporate profits and then we’ll see if nature improves.
hazeydreams@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Capitalism is a parasite.
Humanity when we view nature as equal to us is beneficial to nature.
But we kinda lost the plot once we thought god gave us the earth to pillage
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Worry not, we won’t be alive for long.