• LastYearsPumpkin@feddit.ch
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    1 year ago

    That’s quite the stretch. Don’t regulate the rich cause we might be caught up?

    I don’t take private flights from one side of a city to another. I don’t own a yacht (or 6). I don’t own a fleet of vehicles with a staff that drives them around. I don’t throw away more food than most people eat. I don’t horde dozens of acres of land that contain nothing but wasteful lawn.

    There’s a pretty stark contrast between the ultra wealthy, and the vast majority of people living in highly developed countries.

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      1 year ago

      When people get in a rage about “the rich”, those kinds of distinctions generally go out the window.

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        1 year ago

        You’re not wrong, but it’s not likely that a bunch of moneyless people from third-world countries are going to come over and genocide us.

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            1 year ago

            The “sea people” weren’t a bunch of starving refugees, they were well-supplied and organized military invasion forces, but sure.

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              You sure about that? Some theories concern a changing climate causing them to leave in pursuit of “greener pastures”:

              Existing theories variously propose that they were any of several Aegean tribes, raiders from Central Europe, scattered soldiers who turned to piracy or became refugees, or migrants linked to natural disasters such as earthquakes or climatic shifts.[2][13]

              From Wikipedia