[ExI] dead weight

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 10:57 PM Will Steinberg <steinberg.will at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, May 15, 2019, 10:33 <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
>
>> If 8 people have more gold than 3.8 billion poor, that isn’t a problem.
>>
> Oh stop.  Gold is viciously fungible.  Gold = money = power = work/time.
> If 8 people can do more work in a second than 3.8 billion, something is
> very fucked up.
>
> And... something is very fucked up.  Just ask Gaia how the cancer is going.
>
>> _

### Let's run with it for a moment: Who produces more pollution, these 8
evil rich or these 3.8 billion friends of the planet? Who poaches more
endangered elephants, the execrable Mr Gates or the 500,000,000 Africans
that are his equivalent? Who has a bigger carbon footprint, the monstrous
Mr Bezos or a half billion Green sympathizers?

Ask Gaia.
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