Indy Richard 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿12h ago

I love this quote. It highlights the absurdity at the heart of our society.

Under capitalism, it's very normal to let children go hungry, let banks force people out of their homes, let sick people die for lack of access to healthcare. But the idea that billionaires could just be less rich, not poor, not struggling, just less rich, is considered insane.

#Socialism
#Capitalism
#WealthInequality

Show threadMiaK 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸
@IndyRichard Reminded me of a post I saw a few weeks ago: "if we put a litre of poison into a billionaire's pool, that's a crime. If they put hundreds of gallons of poison into our drinking water, that's just the cost of doing business."
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Show threadIndy Richard 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿41m ago
@MiaMarkTwo You remind me of that US company in Bhopal in India, that managed to poison half a million people.
Show threadSteve Woods37m ago
@IndyRichard @MiaMarkTwo Union Carbide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster
Bhopal disaster - Wikipedia

Show threadMiaK 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸10m ago
@wood5y @IndyRichard I watched a documentary about that a while back, telling the story of the survivors' efforts to get compensation. It was horrific.
Show threadSteve Woods8m ago

@MiaMarkTwo @IndyRichard People are still suffering.

IIRC the groundwater is heavily contaminated.

Show threadMiaK 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸6m ago
@wood5y @IndyRichard I think that's right. Some of the injuries in the initial explosion were dreadful. IIRC there were generations of birth defects, cancers, all sorts.
Show threadMiaK 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸11m ago
@IndyRichard Union Carbide. I remember that being on the news.