I’m thinking about social justice and cancel culture lately, where society forces someone to lose their job, social status, erc. for shitty things they have said or done that aren’t technically illegal but are unpopular. One thing I’ve noticed is that social justice never focuses on billionaires.

Bill Gates could end world poverty with a fraction of his wealth, yet we throw praise on him for spending money on research to block out the sun and oral vaccines that actually increase infection rates when entering the water system.

Billionaires are morally reprehensible people and we spend our time instead focused on cancelling celebrities and people for saying stupid shit. Are we just being manipulated again to focus on the wrong thing?

    • Nevar@lemmy.mlOP
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      5 years ago

      He wasn’t a billionaire though, I believe he peaked at $70 million networth. Multimillionaires still get cancelled frequently, since many celebrities are. Travis mentioned petit bourgeoisie, that’s probably what Martin is. I’m talking about the disgusting people who have more money than they could possibly spend. Bezos, Gates, Slim, Poreshenko, Ma, etc.