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• @deFractal@infosec.exchange 2026-07-28 20:45

  @JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange There’s “nice things” and then there’s “your jewelry alone costs more than enough to house every unhoused person in the city,” or even “your dozen failed futile phallus rockets cost more than enough to feed every starving person on Earth.” The rich bought a lot less ivory and gorrila-hand ashtrays when everyone else agreed that acquiring such things inherently made one a terrible person. Maybe if the next time someone shows up literally looking like a million bucks, and every time thereafter, the public response were not fanatical screaming but something more like a Kling’on discommendation, they’d become more prone to making more ethical decisions. If a person is flaunting their choice of somewhere between 100 and 300 locals’ preventable deaths just so they can play (read in the voice of playground taunting) “I have something you can’t have, so I’m better than you are,” that person deserves, at best, to be shamed and then ignored, not idolized like too many do. In a world where anyone starves, no one could ever deserve, and no decent person would ever want, a megayacht or any other such waste of money. Those who hoard and waste so much for themselves are indecent, and everyone else ought to start seeing them as such. Maybe then they’d go back to paying for schools and libraries and hospitals, not absurdist displays of status, in order to regain the attention they crave.

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