• Aatube@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    To pre-empt possible reports: This is plausibly uplifting, and it’s the votes that represent how we respond to this news. With these downvotes I doubt it’d show up in any feed, and that should be enough.

  • reluctant_squidd@lemmy.ca
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    9 days ago

    I get the “eat the rich” sentiment, but they could have given none I suppose.

    Of course, 9/10 chance this is mostly for tax breaks and PR.

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      9 days ago

      aren’t they still bombing about in private jets all over the fucking place as well?

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        9 days ago

        I read somewhere recently that in the Uk, the rich managed to get private jets classified as “Green Investments”. So now we can all just relax about that I guess.

  • marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today
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    9 days ago

    This is the exact same as the median American giving their rent check to charity one month.

    Not nothing, technically, but clearly a PR stunt for the industry plant.

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      9 days ago

      Absolutely not the same. You have to include cost of living in the calculation. They have significantly more expendable income.

      Spending $100 is easier for me now than $10 when I was broke and I’m not making 10x more