• @Yokana
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    81 year ago

    Thats a true revolutionary cry. But since being “rich” is quite a relative term, you might wake up in the realization that most of the world considers you rich and your lifestyle complicit in the mass destruction of the global environment.

    • @[email protected]
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      241 year ago

      That’s quite the stretch. Don’t regulate the rich cause we might be caught up?

      I don’t take private flights from one side of a city to another. I don’t own a yacht (or 6). I don’t own a fleet of vehicles with a staff that drives them around. I don’t throw away more food than most people eat. I don’t horde dozens of acres of land that contain nothing but wasteful lawn.

      There’s a pretty stark contrast between the ultra wealthy, and the vast majority of people living in highly developed countries.

      • @[email protected]
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        -41 year ago

        When people get in a rage about “the rich”, those kinds of distinctions generally go out the window.

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          1 year ago

          You’re not wrong, but it’s not likely that a bunch of moneyless people from third-world countries are going to come over and genocide us.

    • @Seasoned_Greetings
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      61 year ago

      This is a form of slippery slope fallacy. Rich in this context refers to portion of society contributing to pollution on a massively higher scale than even an upper middle class American. How many ‘rich’ Americans regularly fly private jets or take yachts? How many average joes own and operate a cruise line or a refinery?

      I think with regards to poorer people in other countries, they’d be on the same page with 99.99% of Americans about who’s considered so rich that they alone pose a threat to global health.