The money from the fountain gets collected and sent to Caritas, a catholic charity that focuses on health, disaster relief, poverty, and migration. I am a Queer atheist person in Spain that uses their services and they haven’t once made my queerness an issue. Nor have they exposed me to their religious views.

So, shrug, I’m not gonna shit on them doing the tradition that many diplomatic events in Rome do.

They are literally the people who can enact change, the fuck do they need luck for?

Just like declining birth rates in the US.

"We need to have more babies! Our population is declining!"

Well we could subsidize child care.

"Fuck you! Oh whatever shall we do?!"

Well we could provide housing programs for people who want to have children.

"Fuck you! Oh we need to think of something."

Oh, I know, we could subsidize fertility treatments for parents that want children but are having difficulties and can't afford 10s of thousands of uncovered medical expenses at once!

"Fuck you! Oh, woe is me, there's nothing anyone can do!"

Punishing corporations for their misbehavior is too much work

Is that Angela Merkel in the middle? If so this must be at least an old photo. She is not the German chancellor anymore. Not that that would make thing any better...

When was this? Merkel and her party luckily aren't in the government anymore.

They did NOT toss coins for "good luck fighting the climate emergency." Maybe some did, who knows. It was not a collective wish for something, just a stage for a nice group photo.

https://www.yahoo.com/video/made-wish-g20-leaders-toss-113600490.html?guccounter=1

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-31/g-20-leaders-pose-by-trevi-fountain-macron-and-johnson-face-off

From the Yahoo article: "Of course the wishes can't be revealed to anyone if they are to become true - so who knows what British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Emmanuel Macron, outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel wished for."

Boris looks confused at the idea of throwing money at anything other than his mates.

Due to reports of misinformation from users I'll post this comment here.

No. They were not actually tossing coins backwards for good luck fighting climate change. No one knows exactly what the people in this picture were actually wishing good luck for.

I don't want to come down too hard on people but one of my jobs as moderator is to prevent the spread of misinformation.

well toss a coin for good luck while we let corporations rape the planet

Oceans 111°

Would like to know how many fetch back their coin afterwards...

Look at the average age of the people in that picture. You think they care for climate change? They know they'll be dead soon enough.

Can't hurt or tell the rich what to do for the 99% /s

This is literally worthy of nottheonion material lol. 🤣

Words fail.