This infuriates me.
I would actually love to do more to REDUCE my carbon footprint, but it’s prohibitively expensive to.
But billionaires (and millionaires) can literally greenify every aspect of their lives, even be carbon-neutral or carbon negative! But they choose not to.
I think taxing the rich just isn’t enough. We need to CAP the rich. There should be no billionaires.
Carefully Autopsy their Person?
Sounds good.Cap them in their knees.
Please don’t use this as an excuse for. “It doesn’t matter how much I emit then”.
Use this as motivation for grassroots and political action aiming to stop the concept of billionaire from existing.
Fuck yeah! You get it.
I’m glad you addressed this. As soon as I read the title of the post, I knew there would be people who use it as an excuse not to try to do what they can to reduce their negative affects. Which is so incredibly frustrating. Every! Little! Bit! Counts!
Also I doubt anyone in this comment section is average.
The average sits somewhere between us and the all the people in third world country who emit practically no carbon pollution
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Whether or not you eat the rich, please consider not eating the cows.
There is no such thing as an innocent billionaire.
There are no innocent millionaires. The threshold of wealth that requires some seriously unethical behaviour is pretty low.
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You definitely can not become a millionaire on YOUR hard work. It takes the hard work of other people working for you. And unless you over charging for their work or under paying them for their work, you aren’t going to be making millions.
I disagree, since the Internet allows indie studios for things like music and games to reach a massive audience. Selling your indie game that you made with your friends for $20 to 300k people makes you a millionaire without exploiting anyone. As long as you can avoid publishers leeching most of that away… Plenty of people also have become millionaires just by selling their house and moving somewhere cheaper.
I made millions by buying bitcoin years ago. Who did I exploit?
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Thanks. I think there are other examples. For example, authors of (best selling) books.
But most ethical millionaires are just extremely privliged or lucky or both.
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Damn, thank god we killed plastic straws for people with sensitive mouth problems. Thank god Musk can ride his jet 24/7.
wow they must be breathing really hard then
Of course… Work hard, breath hard… A million times harder than you or me, based on income… /s
At some point, things are gonna get bad enough that the masses will turn on them. That’s why they’re all buying islands and building bunkers. We should do it now, while it can make a difference.
Don’t worry, I got this. I went to the shop by foot today instead of driving.
But I’m the asshole for not using the public transportation my city doesn’t have. Anyway, I need to get to the grocery store I should start walking now so I can be there before it closes in 2 hours.
