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It's also psychotic when you think about it .... his family is already worth $8 billion ... but they all have a perpetual need to make even more profits regardless if it means starving people have to pay more for the food they sell.
If I had $1,000 and a box of food and someone with little money came up to me wanting to buy some of my food for $1 and I instead told them it was $2 just because I could .... everyone would look at me like a stingy heartless prick.
A billionaire does it with millions of people every day and it's just called business.
My example is an imaginary hypothetical .... Loblaws and the Weston family do it in real life ... and somehow that is more acceptable than some imaginary story I could come up with.
Absolutely hitting the nail on the head. This is something that isn't being properly discussed anywhere in society; how many billions does a billionaire need before a billionaire has enough billions?
If enough is never enough, then that's not sustainable, it's not healthy for our civilization, and they're absolutely suffering from a form of mental illness that requires social intervention. If a trillion is the number before they'll actually be satisfied; then they need to adjust their goals.
Dare I say it: as long as there are camps full of homeless, as long as people working 60+ hours a week and can't afford both food and a place to live, as long as 50% of the population is one missed paycheck from going broke- there should be no billionaires.
Our economy is dysfunctional and serving the interests of the rich above everyone else. We need an adjustment before the tipping point tips us from untenable into chaos, because these current trends are leading us all into ruin.
“Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.”
beautiful .... great organization and advocacy group to tag too
https://www.badassteacher.org/
We should be celebrating and promoting a world where we encourage those at the bottom rather than giving away our wealth to those who need it the least.
That's why it's called 'obscenely wealthy'. We just got to remind everyone that it is, in fact, obscene.
And to rub it it poors faces they toss out half the food because at the high prices it did not get sold in time
They should get fined for any food thrown away.
I'm visiting France right now and found out that they passed a law forcing grocers to discount or give away expiring or old food. Was great to see