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  • I think i disagree. ‘Bilionaires’ makes it seem seem like a nebulous group of individuals, like

    ‘oh <insert random billionaire who hadnt been in the news lately for something evil> just happens to have a ton of money, you can’t hold that against them without evaluating their actions as an individual’

    The problem is that they are a class, or rather that the class exists as a class and that they are use their power, act as and are catered to, as a class.

    If there were 100 individuals around the word who just happened to have assets valuing 1,000,000,000$ or more, even if they owned shitty companies companies and were all assholes, that would be one thing.

    Assuming they not associate with each other, conspire together to warp society and governments to their shared wills etc, it would be a far different world.

    If they were seen as just rare individuals, governments would not bend to their whims; one billionaire threatens to offshore his buisness unless he gets favorable laws, to ignore taxes etc, the country threatens to nationalism his buisness, or just locks his ass up. I one guy is found to be bribing one or countless politicians, thats a treasonous scandal.

    When a couple dozen are making these threats in lockstep, they are holding the country’s economy hostage. And when between them they are bribing all the politicians, that becomes the staus quo.

    its when they act as a class that its a real problem.









  • AxExRx@lemmy.worldtome_irl@lemmy.worldme_irl
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    9 days ago

    My parents bought a house for 75k in 1985. My nan put down 35k, and they lived in the MIL suite of the house for the summers for 3 years, and rented the main house for 5k a season, and my dad paid the last 25k out of his salary.

    That house is worth 3.5 million now. Cheapest property ive seen go to market in my town was 950k and that was a literal 2 room beach shack with the only shower being outdoors.



  • I think i ahould preface the following because it sounds more neutral than I meant it to. TBC I condone neither of these positions, nor do I mean this to be argumentative with your possition, but rather collaborative:

    I suspect the objection is to the calling out of / reminder that destruction of water facilities as a war crime, which seems to be something both sides have done/ been threatening in the Iran war, as well as the call out to allow UN/ other humanitarian aid groups unfettered access in warzones. Which seems like it conflicts with Israel’s contentions with UNRWA.










  • Try a smoother shake or a stir if you want to avoid a foam.

    I also used to do a demarara gum syrup for a blinker cocktail I was making a raspberry simple syrup in this case, but it still works without- and should work with agave (just heat it up stir some of the gum Arabic powder in, then let cool)

    I was doing it as a stirred highball anyway, (stir all but the soda thouroughly, add the soda, and give 3 more slow turns of the spoon to incorporate but minimize decarbonation) but when incorporated, the gum syrup gave the drink a silky feel, and kept the fruit flavors present on the tongue just a little longer, so they outlasted the bourbon.