silence7M to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.English · 6 months agoWhy billionaires should take the lead and declare their own emissions cutting targetstheconversation.comexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1158arrow-down110
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minus-squaresilence7OPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·6 months agoThe idea that Americans are worse off than French just before the Revolution is bonkers. I don’t see bread riots yet or widespread starvation
minus-squareRivalarrival@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·6 months agoWealth inequality is considerably worse today than at the beginning of the French Revolution. We do have fewer riots today, but that’s primarily because we are much better at quelling them. If you’re not seeing poverty, you’re not looking.
The idea that Americans are worse off than French just before the Revolution is bonkers. I don’t see bread riots yet or widespread starvation
Wealth inequality is considerably worse today than at the beginning of the French Revolution.
We do have fewer riots today, but that’s primarily because we are much better at quelling them.
If you’re not seeing poverty, you’re not looking.