Napain@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.ml · 8 months agocan we be all rich together?lemmy.mlexternal-linkmessage-square69fedilinkarrow-up1672arrow-down18file-text
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minus-squarenonentity@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·8 months agoI want wealth to be an indicator of a well-rounded member of society, instead of its current role as a proxy for sociopathy. Also, how about relabelling excessive financial accumulation as something along the lines of ‘financial obesity’.
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoObesity used to be a sign of wealth, and confer higher social status. So oligarchs would be introduced as “the biggest, the fattest, the most corpulent of them all, Richie Apartheington!”
I want wealth to be an indicator of a well-rounded member of society, instead of its current role as a proxy for sociopathy.
Also, how about relabelling excessive financial accumulation as something along the lines of ‘financial obesity’.
Obesity used to be a sign of wealth, and confer higher social status. So oligarchs would be introduced as “the biggest, the fattest, the most corpulent of them all, Richie Apartheington!”