With each disaster, it is important to say: This is happening because it makes some people rich, and those people are planning to escape on their own lifeboat without you. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/lifeboat-c... - ThreadSky

hamiltonnolan.bsky.social • 49 days ago

With each disaster, it is important to say: This is happening because it makes some people rich, and those people are planning to escape on their own lifeboat without you.
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/lifeboat-capitalism

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lilithgnosis.bsky.social•49 days ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L99-t5OvSbk

ericspiegelman.bsky.social•49 days ago

Why not wait until homes stop burning and people stop dying before you use this tragedy for your own personal content mill, you piece of shit

urbfuturistdem.bsky.social•49 days ago

Sorry, how are rich people advantaged by, say, the Palisades fires? Money makes them more resilient, sure. They have less to worry about, big-picture. But they're still incurring losses. Insurance giants are already doing less business by pulling out. Not sure who's quietly raking in a pile

urbfuturistdem.bsky.social•49 days ago

I certainly agree with the point in your essay on toxic individualism, combining with climate denialism, etc. But your topline here seems off

sporkredfox.bsky.social•49 days ago

Understatement.

harshrealmpress.itch.io•48 days ago

What conditions led to the fires? Think about it just a little perhaps.

grumble.social•49 days ago

They are enriched by continuing to prop up fossil fuel dependence and right-wing governments. Those two things are directly related to these fires. It's not off-base to say that the rich people are advantaged by allowing these fires to happen.

castlebravoli7.gobirds.online•47 days ago

I think we’re talking about the kind of rich person who owns a billion dollars in ExxonMobil stock, not some mid-level Paramount executive. The latter type of rich person is going to find out they’re stuck on the deck of the sinking ship with the rest of us slobs while the former kind rows away

peter-butler.bsky.social•49 days ago

"villainy in action" is too accurate

https://www.newsweek.com/california-insurer-canceled-policies-months-before-los-angeles-wildfires-2011521

hannahburner.bsky.social•49 days ago

📌

grundiinheaven.bsky.social•49 days ago

leavingfilmstrk.bsky.social•49 days ago

Brilliant essay. Only thing I'd take exception with is I wish taking care of the vulnerable was mocked as utopian. I'm afraid it's considered wrong now, let the vulnerable die, is Trump and his cronies thinking.

sporkredfox.bsky.social•49 days ago

Oh fuck all the way off with that shit right now

elnosnusk.bsky.social•49 days ago

Why do you think they want greeenland? Lifeboat..

bikeengineer.bsky.social•49 days ago

📌

drunctioningfunk.bsky.social•49 days ago

"Escape on their own lifeboat" to where??? These greedy morons have been burning down the entire planet for decades now.

There is no escaping this, for any amount of money.

sussuarana.bsky.social•49 days ago

Oh, but they will find a place, not all of them, but the billionaires.

illfatedpupulon.bsky.social•49 days ago

Why do you think billionaires love yachts?

ds00n.bsky.social•49 days ago

There’s a reason Thanos isn’t on the list of people who get dusted in his plan.

icetech.bsky.social•49 days ago

I'm pretty sure god controls everything and has a plan.. this is just god doing his/her thing...

or was that all a lie?

darwinwoodka.bsky.social•49 days ago

Yeah, well, some of those rich people just saw their houses BURN

drunctioningfunk.bsky.social•49 days ago

I predict that zero lessons will be learned

hamiltonnolan.bsky.social•48 days ago

Talked about this piece on the American Prestige podcast today:
https://americanprestige.supportingcast.fm/listen/american-prestige-1/special-the-la-fires-and-lifeboat-capitalism-w-hamilton-nolan

rubdirtinit.bsky.social•49 days ago

Like, a literal lifeboat, because no land will be safe

gladysdoodles.bsky.social•49 days ago

My dude, Pacific Palisades is mostly very well/ rich community.

Altadena/Pasadena is not as rich, but they’re better off then middle class.

Sylmar area are paycheck to paycheck households.

WHO IS BENEFITING HERE!?!?

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