Everytime I look at small problems or big global problems, if you follow the money trail, it all leads to some billionaire who is either working towards increasing their wealth or protecting their wealth from decreasing.

Everything from politics, climate change, workers rights, democratic government, technology, land rights, human rights can all be rendered down to people fighting another group of people who defend the rights of a billionaire to keep their wealth or to expand their control.

If humanity got rid of or outlawed the notion of any one individual owning far too much money than they could ever possibly spend in a lifetime, we could free up so much wealth and energy to do other things like save ourselves from climate change.

  • melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    doesn’t technically count

    well I’m saying billionaires so we absolutely don’t catch any splash damage.

    what are we even arguing about?

    • a lil bee 🐝@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Not sure anybody is really arguing in this entire thread. Just discussion of edge cases and the gray areas on an interesting shower thought.

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        2 months ago

        valid. parton is an edge case, an extreme outlier, or she would be if she counted. which she doesn’t.

        so I feel like its a pretty good validation of the metric.