Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷Jun 13, 2023

It is high time we stopped misusing the word 'elite' to describe the cancer at the apex of our society. Elite should be reserved for top athletes and brilliant minds, people who deserve our respect.

Call the super-rich what they are: PARASITES.

Edit: some have suggested PREDATORS as a better term. They are both!

Show threadRyder
@KimSJ I’m going to say that top athletes don’t “deserve” respect. If I could run a little bit faster than Ghandi, I wouldn’t expect respect for that 🤷
Jul 6, 2023 at 4:07pmMastodon for iOS
Show threadKim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷Jul 6, 2023
@curry_ryder You may be right, but you don’t get to be an elite athlete without mental discipline and hard work, and that is achieved without stealing the work of thousands of other people. Certainly more deserving of respect than people who began their business empire by tax fraud or other law-breaking, or just an accident of birth.