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What was ruined by rich people? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by BeAware@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] czarrie@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

frantically gestures at everything

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Aside from everything? The internet.

[–] Efwis@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Everything. They don’t care about nothing but making more money. Greed will be the death of everyone who isn’t already rich.

[–] specialneedz@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

The planet

[–] pr0927@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Society.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

A better question would be what wasn't ruined by rich people?

[–] airportline@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Twitter

[–] livedeified@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

[–] BeAware@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Based.

[–] NosyRock@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I'm going to say dog breeds

[–] ram@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

The environment

[–] what_is_a_name@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Climate.

[–] danieljackson@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It depends to what you mean by "rich people." Yes, climate shambled by the global north, or the to 20% richest citizens of the planet.

I agree that big corporations bear a big burden for climate change, like, for example, Exxon which knew about CO~2~ since the 50s, and tried to hide it, and lobby against any regulation.

But saying that, us the 99% westerners don't bare responsability by buying a new iPhone every year, is a lie.

[–] PostmodernPythia@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Given that the corporations own the politicians who make the laws that structure our lives and allow planned obsolescence and a lack of transparency in things like phones, still going to put 90% of the blame on the rich here. Your perspective might be correct in a functional democracy, but that’s not where most people (nor even most Westerners) live.

[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Pollution occurs at the point of extraction, production and logistics, not at the point of consumption.