<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 15, 2019, 23:26 Rafal Smigrodzki <<a href="mailto:rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com">rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 10:57 PM Will Steinberg <<a href="mailto:steinberg.will@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">steinberg.will@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 15, 2019, 10:33 <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="m_4518448545704748220gmail-m_161439479687164539m_-3741380006035459046WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt">If 8 people have more gold than 3.8 billion poor, that isn’t a problem.</span></p></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto">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. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And... something is very fucked up. Just ask Gaia how the cancer is going.</div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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_</blockquote><div>### 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?</div><div><br></div><div>Ask Gaia.</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Well now that you ask, tiresome-right-wing-yin to JKC's tiresome-left-wing-yang,</div><div dir="auto"></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Who mines the coltan that enables all the smartphones running Bezos' apps? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Who makes the cheap products he is the middleman for?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">You really think the first world could exist without the third?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Maybe some need to suffer. Maybe that is life. It is brutal and as it has always been. Maybe it is silly to think otherwise.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But it's definitely silly, too, to pretend that Bezos' riches aren't fueled by suffering.</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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