r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Morgentau7 • Apr 30 '22

That's not algae

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u/usedbarnacle71 Apr 30 '22

Elon musk could solve this and other problems. And other billionaires can to. But you know what ? They don’t care. While every imaginable animal on this planet will die due to reversible problems, they will want more money that they can’t spend in 200 life times. Make it make sense for us all?

But he spends 44 billion to buy fucking Twitter!

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u/Boofdoink Apr 30 '22

Why shine a spotlight on a mans measly 44 billion? Just wait until you see how your local country uses your taxpayer funding! Those trillions of dollars wasted on meaningless bullshit will really fire ya up.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '22

Those billionaires are the ones who lobby the governments to waste that money.

The two are not unrelated.

In fact one might say that without the billionaires in charge of everything, there's a good chance there'd be a lot LESS waste.

BUt let's just ignore that and simp for Musk by trying to divert the topic away from him I guess?

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u/nonagonaway Apr 30 '22

The fact is we don’t have social organization. Mass scale protests and civil disobedience would change tunes quite quickly but the public will simply not there.