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Trickle-down economics are a sham, that's been clear for a long time. But so is this idea that people like Bezos have any duty that we one-percenters on HN don'
by Arnt 5y ago
Trickle-down economics are a sham, that's been clear for a long time. But so is this idea that people like Bezos have any duty that we one-percenters on HN don't also have. "Trickle-down" means FROM people like us. We're the privileged 1%.
(If you think you're not among the one richest per cent: There are about eight billion people on earth, so 1% is eighty million people. Do you really think there are eighty-one million people who earn/own more than you personally do?)
- space_man 5y agoI don't know about you, but I don't make my money by forcing people to piss in bottles.
- darkerside 5y agoIt's not unlikely someone in a sweatshop somewhere pissed in a bottle to make the shirt you're wearing right now 3% more quickly
- ben_w 5y agoNot directly, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the layers of indirection between your (or my) economic actions and literal slave labourers (as in some prisoners in the USA or China, not merely downtrodden working class masses who deserve better) is at most one higher than the level of indirection between Bezos and that. How many layers of hierarchy does Amazon have? 12? And what is made by inmates working for UNICOR or the Texas Department of Criminal Justice? I’m neither resident of nor a citizen of the USA, but I expect no more than 13 steps from my economic actions to the inmates.
- space_man 5y agoMakes sense, just like you and me, Bezos is totally powerless in changing this. Good to know that even the richest man in the world sometimes can not change the evil going on 12 levels below him in his company.
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- Mordisquitos 5y ago> But so is this idea that people like Bezos have any duty that we one-percenters on HN don't also have. If, for the sake of the argument, I am indeed a "one-percenter", I would be more than happy if "people like Bezos" were to follow through with the same duties that I do.