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Clearly this growing number of folks know some financial angle that I don't. Its a exclusive club and I ain't in it.
by nebula8804 4y ago
Clearly this growing number of folks know some financial angle that I don't. Its a exclusive club and I ain't in it.
- mc32 4y agoClearly, folks with money aren't putting that money where their mouths are with respect to their climate change signaling. Oh, I see people disagree with this take. I'd like to know where it's wrong. They certainly could pressure each other so that only detestable "baddies" are left flying in private jets...
- kybernetyk 4y agoWhat? You mean Prince Harry jetting over to the world climate conference and telling us peasants to keep down the heating during winter ... or else ... is a hypocrite? No way!
- _Microft 4y agoTechnically even that can be net(!)-positive but I doubt that most of the users of private jets are using them for helpful ends.
- bcrosby95 4y agoNot if even more people don't do anything because of their hypocrisy.
- vaidhy 4y agoOnly if the same thing cannot be accomplished if they flew commercial
- lp0_on_fire 4y agoTechnically he could attend these conferences by zoom instead of flying a private jet but somehow that’s never an option for the rich climate-scolds.
- mc32 4y agoWell…. They DID when video conferencing was unique, expensive and exclusive many years ago! (Live via exclusive satellite link from far-away-place)
- _Microft 4y agoBe glad because these are the people that are burning our future.
- inconceivable 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Grapes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Grapes yeah i think i'll take being rich with a private jet instead of being middle class while still burning our future.
- _Microft 4y agoThe average western citizen might emit more than what is sustainable already but we're talking about people that are emitting orders of magnitude more than that.
- inconceivable 4y agowell, you're doing a fantastic job of outsourcing their guilt, i'm sure they sleep just fine at night at 30k feet while simultaneously convincing you to reduce your quality of life.
- oh_sigh 4y agoBut there are orders of magnitude fewer ultra rich than there are average western citizens. Focusing on every westerner reducing their GHG emissions a bit would have far more substantial results than even completely eliminating 100% of the GHG emissions from the ultra rich.
- Mechanical9 4y agoThe ultra rich have orders of magnitude more influence over politics, regulation, and private business than the average western citizen, so I would think that focusing on the ultra rich in one way or another should yield pretty substantial results.
- wahnfrieden 4y agoIf you're working rather than owning, that's your first 'mistake'
- amelius 4y agoHow do you correct that mistake without working?
- voidfunc 4y agoGet lucky or marry into wealth.
- slashdev 4y agoOften you don’t, you likely have to keep working while also working on a transition plan. I’m still working on my transition plan twenty years later. Some things are just not easy.
- wahnfrieden 4y agoThe first step is to take ownership as a worker so that you at least take what you make. You can investigate worker syndicalism, sociocracy, etc for ways to do that with the help of peers.
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