• blazera@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    This would send a signal to the world that leaders really are serious and counteract the widely held perception that others aren’t willing to change.

    Jee its like wealthy people genuinely do not care about climate and perceptions are accurate.

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    8 months ago

    Eliminating billionaires is the only thing worth talking about

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    8 months ago

    Billionaires will not do this. They will make excuses about carbon footprint and sharing their private jets with their friend’s cats.

    Billionaires do not give. They take. And eventually they want to look like they give. So they give to what they want to appear to be.

    But 99.999% of billionaires won’t give away anything other than ill-informed opinions.

    And anything we frame to them will be thought of in terms of:

    1. what do we know; we are not billionaires
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    8 months ago

    Billionaires are not leaders. They are takers. They must be forced via the law, otherwise they will do nothing besides further enrich themselves beyond their already obscene levels of wealth.