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Aren't we somehow in this boat together?
by folli 7y ago
Aren't we somehow in this boat together?
- reallydontask 7y agoSome of us are more in it than others :)
- folli 7y agoI don't know, some of us might have a more luxurious cabin on a top floor, where it takes longer for the water to leak in, but the boat is sinking nonetheless.
- praptak 7y agoSome of us are reluctant to give up the good seats in order to save the boat.
- blunte 7y agoMore accurately, some passengers are rich enough to afford to buy an extra seat just to carry their extra luggage, depriving a poorer person the opportunity to share the ride.
- esarbe 7y agoAn extra seat? The whole deck.
- esarbe 7y agoI mean, seriously, have you had a look at wealth distribution? It's about 0.7 percent that owns about 46% of all the wealth. (https://interactive.guim.co.uk/charts/embed/nov/2017-11-13T16:11:56/embed.html https://interactive.guim.co.uk/charts/embed/nov/2017-11-13T1...) To stay with the boat analogy; the top half of the boat is nearly empty, reserved for the exclusive use of some few rich people (and maybe their servants), while the lower decks with the machinery is teeming with masses of poor people, crowded by the hundreds into vast rooms right beside the boilers, devoid of any infrastructure or sanitation, barely able to move or breath. The boat is sinking and the poor in the lower decks are drowning. All the while the few rich in the upper decks are trying to cut a way pieces of the boat and make them swim by themselves.
- blunte 7y agoIndeed. And when something like Corona hits, and the mass of poor people get sick all at the same time, then the boat stops moving. We are observing the early stages of a correction in the way of life, and I daresay the near/medium term future will be quite different than things have been for the previous 40 yeras.