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sorry but Mark Twain already made the perfect reply to this bullshit line of reasoning about 150 years ago
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I mean.. Yes? To an extent.
The issue here is that there are grades of this shit. And comparing the CEOs of healthcare companies to the average person with ten thousand dollars to excuse it is extremely bad faith. They aren't comparable in the slightest. We're talking about world level Olympic sprinter athlete level of social murder vs the dude at the pub who jogs every now and then.
This basically feels like the environmental individualism defence. Where they try and offload the ills of the 10 biggest industries in the world onto the average person who doesn't recycle all their plastics. If we address all the megacorps doing it then the individual level will be hardly anything to resolve afterwards.
More to the point, if we do the job right with the 10 corporations, there will be no unnecessary plastics for the one guy to fail to recycle.
Yeah exactly. If all the healthcare CEOs and whatever else are sorted out, john $10k won't need to help others because they'll already be helped out.
The problem isn't the little individual it's the big dickbags.
John $10k probably saved that just in case he falls victim to an accident that should be free with a functioning healthcare system. People who can, save money because the next once in a lifetime capitalist financial crisis is just around the corner.