• TootSweet@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    There’s no way Michael Gusto wasn’t immediately banned from Twitter for that, right?

    (Yes, I refuse to call it “X”.)

  • ceenote@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    He, and all the rest of them, could easily do a u-turn, be class-conscious and fair to the workers and all the hate would go away. They’d still be nowhere close to poor or struggling, just less rich. They just don’t want to.

    It’s like Zuck building a bunker in Hawaii that would, at best, buy him 2 or 3 years of relative comfort in the event of a societal collapse. All because he doesn’t want to moderate his society-corroding websites.

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      9 days ago

      I reckon there’s some tipping point of wealth/power/privilege that totally transforms a person, any person, into something fundamentally different at heart.

      Like, they won’t part with hundreds of lifetimes worth of cash because that would feel like self destruction. To them, they are their wealth. Nothing else remains. The accumulation isn’t pointing at anything other than accumulation.

      …. And that’s not a new idea. Fucking st. Basil raged about this in the 300’s.