Thread by @caitoz

Billionaires Are Not Morally Qualified To Shape Human Civilization

Nobody who chooses day after day to let millions of people die of starvation has any business making decisions which affect other people, much less decisions which affect everyone.
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Billionaires Are Not Morally Qualified To Shape Human Civilization (Audio)

"They are too narcissistic and dysfunctional to be permitted to have any power or influence whatsoever, much less the ungodly amount they wield today."
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Human civilization is being engineered in myriad ways by an unfathomably wealthy class who are so emotionally and psychologically stunted that they refuse to end world hunger despite having the ability to easily do so.

To get a sense of how insane this is, imagine if you had seen a video clip of me calmly watching a child drown to death in a swimming pool and doing nothing to help. After watching such footage, would it ever occur to you that I am someone who should be in charge of the world?

I'm going to guess no.

Now imagine if instead of letting one child drown, it was millions.

That's how absolutely insane it is that we allow this class to shape our civilization.
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The United Nations has estimated that world hunger could be ended for an additional expenditure of $30 billion a year, with other estimates considerably lower. The other day Elon Musk became the first person ever to attain a net worth of over $300 billion.

https://twitter.com/IGN/status/1454221763974402049

Billionaires and billionaire corporations own our media, influence our thinking, manipulate our economies, interfere in our politics, determine the fate of our ecosystem, and shape our world. And they are the very LEAST qualified among us to be doing so.