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I have an urge to write up why billionaires dying in foolhardy explorations is funny, actually, but it all amounts to just being *tired* of the billionaires. Exhausted. Fed up.

It's tiresome, that a bunch of grown children get tp have every single toy their shrivelled hearts desire, and the whole world bends and shifts to their wants and needs, while at the same time all around me non-billionaires are suffering and dying for equally preventable reasons.

Yeah, one of those drowned billionaires was basically a kid, but that kid in his 19 years experienced and enjoyed far more wealth and luxury - let alone having his basic needs met - than a hundred other kids would get in their whole lives. Maybe it was his time?

I dunno, I've lost my ability to live vicariously through rich peoples' "accomplishments", because whenever I look at a rich person I see thousands or millions of poor people who sacrificed, toiled, and suffered to make that one person wealthy.

The money spent on a deep sea sightseeing mission, an orbital jaunt, or a little visit to the south pole should have - in a better world - been taxed away from those greedy assholes long before they could even think of leaving their home.

One of the things wealth gets you is an escape from consequences: no matter how much your company degrades the environment, underpays or steals from workers, harms or kills employees, encloses once-public space into private hands, lobbies to remove public funds from social services and into private industry, if you're rich you usually don't have any consequences for any of that, not material consequences. It isn't the rich person's backyard that becomes a tar pit, it's the poor person's.

So when a "tragedy" - especially one that has the appearance of being a *consequence* of a series of bad decisions (whether or not it was a consequence rather than a chance occurance) - happens to wealthy people, it feels like the *closest* thing to justice I can imagine.

Real justice, of course, wouldn't be a series of increasingly ridiculous Final Destination-like deaths for each and every rich person (...or would it?....) it would look like redistributing the wealth, aligning our societies with the rest of nature, and restoring land to its proper stewards while teaching next generations how to be proper stewards themselves.

No, it's not a noble feeling, to laugh at someone else's bad luck, but for me it's the best I can muster. All my empathy is tied up with the fates of poor people, I can't spare even a little for a few rich folks.

decided to shoot my shot and request verification on Instagram, though I highly doubt they'd ever verify a feminist activist who challenges the patriarchy like me. especially with the history of posts of mine they banned for bullshit reasons (always "sexually explicit nudity" even though I pre-censor the sh out of them)

who here will pay someone for being awesome at python and working with undocumented websocket apis to scrape websites and circumvent rate limited rest apis and stuff?

Working remotely should be the norm, not a privilege.

Taraaa! Der neue "Bericht aus Brüssel" ist daaaaaaa...
Künstliche Intelligenz, Korruption, Knaller des Jahres: Wieder einmal alles, was Sie noch nie aus der EU wissen wollten…
https://youtu.be/fDP1dYGCmo0

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/MartinSonneborn/status/1640013212459454465