At a weekend long NYU seminar on ancient Greece, I learned one of the city/states held a popularity contest once a year. The 'winner' of this contest had the choice of exile or execution. The Greeks did this because they didn't want anybody to have such influence and power.
Can't laugh at that because I really do believe that's the only solution for this insane and unfair hell that global society has become.
I see a lot of people everyday, none of them billionaires, spending a lot of money on non-essentials, and none of them seems to deserve the comfort they have.
At the same time, I see a lot of workers working their asses off and always struggling to pay for rent and food, or people that live on the streets, and none of them seems to deserve this amount of suffering.
I can only imagine how horrible millionaires and billionaires are.
Not me giggling silently from the sidelines of a high school volleyball tournament, imagining certain billionaires being “yeeted into a volcano”. We are going back, all the way to Mayan human sacrifice. 🤭
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I see a lot of people everyday, none of them billionaires, spending a lot of money on non-essentials, and none of them seems to deserve the comfort they have.
I can only imagine how horrible millionaires and billionaires are.
This must change.
I love that!!
"I'll take an S, please"
"No, sorry, no S's. That's $400 billion of your assets out the door!"
And so on. But they have to spin again, they have to lose, because it's The Wheel of Misfortune and they won a spot on the show.