• joel1974@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    When are they going to do the same thing for gun manufacturers and cigarette companies?

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      9 months ago

      No one with power gives a shit and congress is just showboating. Maayyyybe they’ll fine him .001% of his worth.

      Is a single child’s life worth a billion dollars? What about 10 children? 100?

      Not to them. Until business leaders are held accountable for the crimes that are allowed to happen, nothing is going to change. And I doubt that will ever happen. People are far too easy to bribe.

      How many deaths would you all be willing to leave unpunished for a million? What about a billion? One, at least. Don’t lie. Think of all the lives you could save with that money. Exactly. Now we’re all accomplices.

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        9 months ago

        I don’t think I’d be willing to overlook the deaths of young people for an amount of money. The reason your comment seems reasonable is because a lot of us need money to survive in this hellscape. People in power don’t need the bribes. Yet they take them anyways.

        Make no mistake of how deplorable these people are. They don’t overlook deaths to help people or pay off their car or eat this month. They do it so they can buy stocks that they unfairly trade and then make millions for a third home and sports car. Would the average person do this? No because the average person isn’t insane and doesn’t want to be a politician.

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          9 months ago

          Greed is greed regardless if you have money already or not. And also you’re a lair. You have a price.

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            9 months ago

            Weird assertion to make. I don’t feel that my life would be improved by having unimaginable amounts of money. Would I like enough to comfortably retire? Yep. Would I trade someone’s life to retire right now? No. Other than that I wouldn’t really care to have more money.

            This is why rich people are psychopaths. It isn’t normal to put greed over peoples lives. But it’s also what the US mentality encourages which is why you think I’m wrong.

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              9 months ago

              Anyone’s life? What about a billionaire. You get all their money, to do whatever with. And they drop dead.

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                9 months ago

                You’re asking a different question. If I were to want them to die, it wouldn’t be because I want their money. It would be because I view their lives as a moral negative which causes incalculable harm.

                If obtaining their money was a side benefit of their death, I would spend almost all of it promoting and enacting humanism. I really don’t need what they have.

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      9 months ago

      Does it matter? Do you think this will have any effect? This is the yearly ‘drag the social media CEOs in front of congress and berate them’ showboat. Literally yearly. And nothing changes.