Cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/34117495

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  • ImplyingImplications
    7·
    20 hours ago

    I quoted the Bible because the image in the OP is Luigi in the style of a saint. I’m not religious.

    If I said “the Sun is hot” and you said “if you live on Earth you experience temperatures hotter than most of the universe” you also wouldn’t be wrong. You’d be Neil deGrasse Tyson. Most of the universe is -270°C. Earth is 15°C. The sun is 1,000,000°C. No matter how you look at it, the Sun is hot. The Earth is only hot if you purposefully compare it to cold things.

    1/3 of the world make $2 a day. I made about $137 a day. Thompson made $27,945 a day. I am $135/d away from the poorest and $27,808/d away from Thompson. I’m not sure what the goal is of saying I am rich compared to the poor when I am 205x closer to being the world’s poorest than I am to being a multi-millionare, let alone one of the approx. 2,700 billionaires in the world.

    • Willy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      25·
      17 hours ago

      my goal isn’t about ignoring the super rich. it was more about spending one day, Xmas day, thinking more about the poor.

      • Krauerking@lemy.lol
        3·
        9 hours ago

        Don’t use them as props in your arguments then and speak about them with compassion and how to raise them up then.