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I guess that’s why nothing is done about climate change in a hurry. We’re told it will affect us all, but obviously, some people believe that with money it wil
by bamboozled 5y ago
I guess that’s why nothing is done about climate change in a hurry.
We’re told it will affect us all, but obviously, some people believe that with money it will affect them less.
Although, it will be interesting to se what people with money do when their air conditioner breaks and the AC mechanic is out due to heat stroke.
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- mindslight 5y agoTurn up their second AC system, pay a different AC technician more to travel further, go into their furnished basement, hang out in their running car, travel to a friend's spacious house, pay someone else to keep up their daily necessities while they fix the system themselves, or it won't have broken due to having better maintenance to begin with. No doubt there will be some schadenfreude. But there is a reason these things affect the poor harder.
- mywittyname 5y agoMoney doesn't solve all your problems, but it sure does solve a lot of them.
- bamboozled 5y agoBut in a way, everything is a little bit connected, if things start to collapse, it will be harder to be rich and comfortable. Who grows your food etc etc?
- mindslight 5y agoPeople generally operate on relative (social) position rather than absolute condition. If the world is going down, it's better to remain ahead of the herd while it does so. I'm not saying this is in any way right, but rather it's what will happen just like Covid. There's also a coordination problem - if an individual rich person decides to slow down climate collapse (and many of them are, albeit possibly ineffectually), they're making their current life worse while not appreciably heading off the disaster.