RE: https://mstdn.social/@Npars01/116191613149406682

there are 800 billionaires in the United States. wouldn't it be funny if there were a mapped directory of all their homes, businessses and properties?

let’s assume they consider themselves human. since they don't believe in the human right to privacy, then we should apply their stalking of the rest of us to them.

n’est ce pas?

#privacy #humanRights

@blogdiva

"The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses."

- Utah Phillips

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Don't Kill The Word, Boney M should get an Epic Symphonic Power Metal cover

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Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Sauce for the goose and all that.

#privacy #humanRights

@blogdiva 800 people obscenely rich. Society that comes even close to buggering up fiscal distribution this insanely badly needs a deep rethink.

Just the simple fact that the vast wealth does not make these people proportionally happier. It is likely to have a negative effect on their happiness as they cannot easily have close friendships without suspecting them to want to share in your wealth.

@NicelyManifest @blogdiva

I've seen addresses, telephone numbers of rich people and their businesses (in the UK) published in anarchist publications around 1980s/90s - it probably wasn't legal then and definitely isn't now, but was done deliberately to make it harder for them to enjoy their wealth.

Over here rich people tend to live in houses behind smart gates and outside selected places in London don't flash their wealth around, although there is currently less hostility towards them as neoliberalism has created some short term middle class affluence - for instance its easier to afford a decent car today than it was 30 years ago..

The USA does however have far less privacy legislation than the UK..

@vfrmedia @blogdiva Gated communities almost define the isolation that wealth can bring...
@NicelyManifest @vfrmedia @blogdiva Even the "somewhat gated" like Del Webb communities for the middle-affluent
@harmonygritz @NicelyManifest @vfrmedia aaaah… the people who say they're capitalists but are one illness away from homelessness.
@blogdiva @harmonygritz @vfrmedia Greed and wealth blinds too many to the reality of poverty or just a hard life that is the norm for most. Very sad,.
@harmonygritz @NicelyManifest @vfrmedia @blogdiva Which are jokes because I can defeat them with a roller skate, a coil with long leads and a 6V battery.
@blogdiva to the Bastille!

@blogdiva I would call that inadvisable, for a number of reasons that seem pretty obvious to me. You're going to find out where self-righteous philosophy runs headlong into harsh truths of the world, and you won't like it. You also won't be able to talk your way out of it, because that world doesn't work like the one online.

It's also largely pointless. Billionaires have to have legal addresses, but they don't really live anywhere.

@blogdiva <returns to sharpening pitchfork>

@blogdiva I like the way you think.

Asymmetrical nonviolent disruption FTW!