points by yongjik 1 hour ago | 0 comments
These days I believe the ultra-wealthy are just a fun scapegoat. Sure, they are guilty of many sins, but most of the time people mention them, there's never any concrete plan to make things better, other than a vague "eat the rich," which we all know will never happen. (And it's really unclear how eating the rich allows us to, say, move around without burning more gas.)
These rhetorics have a distinct feeling of "I found another out-group to which I will assign all the blame, which is very convenient, because I don't want to ever hear 'The earth is going to shit and I could have done something about it.'"
[–] fwip 1 hour ago
One nice benefit of eating the rich, is that we're then free to use the wealth they've hoarded in ways that benefit the public.
[–] jacquesm 16 minutes ago
There is a pretty good chance that within a very short few years you'd have new people like that. It's a systemic problem.
We cannot solve/tackle climate change when we don't even have functional governments that actually try to genuinely support their citizens needs.