• namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev
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    8 months ago

    He’s right. These people are so fantastically wealthy, but it’s not enough. They still need more, more more. And meanwhile, actual people, real human beings are going hungry, without heat, without a home. Not only do laid off employees suffer, but their families and their children too. All so that millionaires can continue promoting themselves to being billionaires and even more.

    I don’t know of anything realistically that can be done about it (in the short term at least). But it just needs to be shouted louder and louder until there’s enough public sentiment that real change can start to happen. Greed needs to be shamed louder and louder. We know all the institutional power that the wealthiest people in the world have to suppress economic equality in every country and throughout the globe, but if our voices grow loud enough, eventually it will be too loud to ignore.

    Excessive wealth and greed is a mark of shame. Let’s just keep repeating it and hopefully we’ll eventually have enough power to reverse it.