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VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to Work Reform@lemmy.world · 1 个月前

Supermarkets destroy food if it doesn't sell. We can always feed the world. We just don't.

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Supermarkets destroy food if it doesn't sell. We can always feed the world. We just don't.

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VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to Work Reform@lemmy.world · 1 个月前
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    I think also rich people need to have poor people otherwise they won’t be seen to be rich. Also wealth = power

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      you make a good point, but i think of “rich people” as the families who have been unimaginably wealthy for hundreds of years. not musk, not bezos, bill gates, etc. the “old money” doesn’t care if you know they’re rich–in fact they would prefer you didn’t. they just want to control the trajectory of your life in order to keep you in your place, and prevent you from encroaching on their position of power.

      think warburgs and rothschilds, not the idiotic rich people flaunting their wealth on twitter

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        Porque no los dos?

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          i mean, fuck musk and bezos and all the rest too. call me a conspiracy theorist, but i’m skeptical of the notion that these people are actually the “richest” of all rich people

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        Bill Gates didn’t exactly not come from money.

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          While raising their children, Bill Sr. and Mary instilled in them a strong work ethic, the importance of community and the significance of helping others.
          https://people.com/all-about-bill-gates-parents-8624696

          that could all be a lie of course, who knows…

          yes, bill gates’s parents were loaded. i’m talking about families that have been too wealthy to measure for many many generations, since banking was invented

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        Yeah but that’s the power part though

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          money and power are intimately connected, but they are not the same thing

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      Yeah. A rich person can’t exist when no-one’s poor.

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