• acosmichippo@lemmy.world
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    30 days ago

    i had to real-life block my aunt and uncle. it was always something about how dumb liberals are and “you’ll understand when you’re older”. nah fuck you, i don’t need this shit in my life.

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      29 days ago

      The only reason they get to say “you’ll understand when you’re older” is because they have something to protect as they got older.

      In other words, they got theirs. And they don’t want to fucking share.

      It’s a shit justification.

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        29 days ago

        That’s always been the easiest way to distill their m.o. – “Fuck you, got mine”

        Sometimes i think of wealth disparity in terms of an enormous game of musical chairs. Maybe I’m being naive, but i at least like to think that there’s enough chairs for everyone on the planet to get a seat. People carrying that “fuck you, got mine” mindset are hoarding chairs. The worst offenders are hoarding square miles of chairs. At the end of the day when the shit hits the fan though, everybody only needs/fits on a single chair. All that hoarding for something they’ll never use while denying folks who couldn’t get one at all.

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          29 days ago

          It just makes no fucking sense to have that much money.

          I’m haunted by a line from Silicon Valley. Rich people use money to keep score.