I wish people were as brave and good as they believe themselves to be. Like what if wealthy executives just decided to be different? It must be such a small and paranoid existence, hoarding money and making sure only other rich people can access the closed eco system in which it circulates. I feel very sorry for them and all the beauty in humanity they are missing out on by not caring.
I would not hold my breath waiting for them to change. Plus I kinda have trouble feeling sorry for them. As far as human connection goes they have "All the friends that money can buy so [they] never have to be alone" as the song says. I kinda get your point though. Poor billionaires. My heart bleeds.
I get your point of view too. It’s hard to have any sort of gentle feelings towards people who make money off the backs of the working class and lord it over us like they’re some better version of human than the rest of us. I guess I feel that when someone has your pity, it takes away a bit of their power, even if it’s only in the ideological sense. It’s a way to free up my mind a bit.
no its not small. super wealthy enjoy their riches, travel all over the world, and more often than not, become blinded by its luxury. And the lefter they are, the more often become philanthropists. Like Bloomberg.
In my opinion, true riches come from genuinely being of service to others. Writing a check like philanthropists do is really helpful, but it’s impersonal. It’s divorced from the actual work that goes into helping other people and truly knowing them for who they are, great and awful. That’s what I mean by small. I know not everyone shares this opinion and that’s okay. “The people I have met are the wonder of my world”
I haven't seen anybody yet point out the similarity of this act to the plotline of Kim Stanley Robinson's 2020 cli-fi novel, The Ministry for the Future. (I can only speak for the first half, because I couldn't finish it, but it features the ideologically motivated assassination of individuals held responsible for climate change, e.g. execs and CEOs of oil companies.)
P.S. New Zealander here, the way billionaire Americans constantly invoke my country as some kind of benign paradise is extremely weird to me.
There certainly is NO WAY with this administration will we get any further on recreating health care in what has become since Reagan, essentially, more and more Radical Capitalist America. Now the most radical of all of Those Sort, are going to be running the show. With ideas to get rid of NLRB and get rid of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, get rid of Dept of Education, lower Overtime, as has already happened in courts. Even take us out of NATO -- Any such thing coming through congress even, would just be canned by right wing judges. And this Supreme court would go along with it. The only reason ACA stands is because it was before we had six right wing (essentially corrupted by Radical Capitalist system they helped to create) judges on the court.
The only reason I have relatively decent health insurance is because I AM IN A UNION. And any severity of illness so far, has been entirely pedestrian and thus covered by law. If not so, I would be owing, minimum, around 28000 right now.
“It is good, at least, that so many disturbed young men will have learned, finally, that true infamy and endless online thirst posts don’t come from school shootings.”
CEO Shootings becoming the new school shootings wouldn't be the worst thing in the world.
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Just ringing someone's doorbell make you an intruder? Boy, these people are fragile.
I wish people were as brave and good as they believe themselves to be. Like what if wealthy executives just decided to be different? It must be such a small and paranoid existence, hoarding money and making sure only other rich people can access the closed eco system in which it circulates. I feel very sorry for them and all the beauty in humanity they are missing out on by not caring.
I would not hold my breath waiting for them to change. Plus I kinda have trouble feeling sorry for them. As far as human connection goes they have "All the friends that money can buy so [they] never have to be alone" as the song says. I kinda get your point though. Poor billionaires. My heart bleeds.
I get your point of view too. It’s hard to have any sort of gentle feelings towards people who make money off the backs of the working class and lord it over us like they’re some better version of human than the rest of us. I guess I feel that when someone has your pity, it takes away a bit of their power, even if it’s only in the ideological sense. It’s a way to free up my mind a bit.
no its not small. super wealthy enjoy their riches, travel all over the world, and more often than not, become blinded by its luxury. And the lefter they are, the more often become philanthropists. Like Bloomberg.
In my opinion, true riches come from genuinely being of service to others. Writing a check like philanthropists do is really helpful, but it’s impersonal. It’s divorced from the actual work that goes into helping other people and truly knowing them for who they are, great and awful. That’s what I mean by small. I know not everyone shares this opinion and that’s okay. “The people I have met are the wonder of my world”
'Human intelligence' seems to be a contradiction. We're simply not intelligent enough to organise 'good' societies.
I haven't seen anybody yet point out the similarity of this act to the plotline of Kim Stanley Robinson's 2020 cli-fi novel, The Ministry for the Future. (I can only speak for the first half, because I couldn't finish it, but it features the ideologically motivated assassination of individuals held responsible for climate change, e.g. execs and CEOs of oil companies.)
P.S. New Zealander here, the way billionaire Americans constantly invoke my country as some kind of benign paradise is extremely weird to me.
There certainly is NO WAY with this administration will we get any further on recreating health care in what has become since Reagan, essentially, more and more Radical Capitalist America. Now the most radical of all of Those Sort, are going to be running the show. With ideas to get rid of NLRB and get rid of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, get rid of Dept of Education, lower Overtime, as has already happened in courts. Even take us out of NATO -- Any such thing coming through congress even, would just be canned by right wing judges. And this Supreme court would go along with it. The only reason ACA stands is because it was before we had six right wing (essentially corrupted by Radical Capitalist system they helped to create) judges on the court.
The only reason I have relatively decent health insurance is because I AM IN A UNION. And any severity of illness so far, has been entirely pedestrian and thus covered by law. If not so, I would be owing, minimum, around 28000 right now.
“It is good, at least, that so many disturbed young men will have learned, finally, that true infamy and endless online thirst posts don’t come from school shootings.”
CEO Shootings becoming the new school shootings wouldn't be the worst thing in the world.