Hatred often makes you want to hurt people, but people hurt peope in the name of greed more often, and not only with less potential for guilt, but is often the cause of delusional accolades and reassurance both from within oneself and from others.
Hypothetical:
A CEO lays off 10,000 employees that helped that company succeed, solely to increase earnings and not because the company is hurting, not only seriously hurting 9,997 people, but causing 3 to commit suicide.
A bumpkin gets in a fight with someone he hates the melanin of because he’s a moron and kills them.
Who did more damage to humanity that day? They’re both, I want to say evil but evil is subjective, they’re both highly antisocial, knowingly harmful behaviors, yet one correctly sends you to prison for a long time if not forever, while the other, far more premeditated and quite literally calculated act, is literally rewarded and partied about. Jim Kramer gives you a shout out on tv, good fucking times amirite!
Edit: and this felt relevant to post after someone tried to lecture me about equating layoffs to murder.
“Coca-Cola killed trade unionists in Latin America. General Motors built vehicles known to catch fire. Tobacco companies suppressed cancer research. And Boeing knew that its planes were dangerous. Corporations don’t care if they kill people — as long as it’s profitable.”
https://jacobin.com/2020/01/corporations-profit-values-murder-culture-boeing
“The problem is that it’s legal to offer such shitty prescription plans and that insurance is based on employment. So maybe the government is liable if I can’t afford prescriptions.”
That happened because corporations lobbied to keep the standards for insurance that low. Our government is really only as liable as a zombie can be, because that’s what it is, fully captured and continuously bribed legally (thanks citizens united) to legislate for shareholder’s GREED against your NEEDS.
In practice, this is a plutocracy.
Absolutely agreed, but I’m not going to give our elected representatives a free pass just because they were bought out.
That’s competely fair, and I agree, but that’s also going after the manager of the accounting department at Meta instead of Zuckerberg. He does the dirty work, but he’s just a cog, not the one behind the controls.
Im just talking about efficacy and going after the source. If you manage to shame someone out of office, 8 more will vye to get the golden seat that gets all that sweet sweet bribe money they got into politics for because that’s how deeply the American greed disease has rotted us.
Sorry, Im not a little ray of sunshine today apologies if I’m bringing you down.
Oh no, I’m with you. Our government has long since been captured by business interests, to the detriment of almost all of the rest of us.
It was that way before, now it’s just anchored in, ftm.