I know we all hate people like Bezos and Gates, but the real leeches on society are the people who directly own capital responsible for natural resource exploitation.
While tech billionaires are bad, the capital that they own is all tied to R&D or software, the resource barons on the other hand, own and control vast swathes of land and infrastructure that exploit natural resources.
Oil barons, real estate tycoons, Coal barons are the greatest evils.
Know your enemy comrades.
I agree and disagree. Amazon is built on exploitation at every point in the supply chain. Ppl make all that junk that ppl impulse buy, and all material is exploited from the land.
Computers made Gates rich, and their production depends on really terrible mining. Like the same capitalist-coup-supported open-pit lithium mines in Bolivia, and the 'artisanal' child-worked cobalt mines of Uganda that made Elon rich off of lithium batteries.
The economy is, fundamentally, material. And all material is from the land.
I agree, tho, we would do ourselves a service to focus less on the popular billionaires and pay more attention to the machinations of oil corps, and exploitative american mining companies plundering other countries' resources and the like.
This is what I wanted to say, I'm just kinda drunk rn, and it came out wrong. Now that I read it, it sounds like I'm a lowkey bezos apologist. None of that lol I'm just upset we don't talk about the other kind if billionaires
Ahahah no worries, I get you. Drunk posting is praxis, comrade. And so is reminding leftists that maybe we shouldn't only focus on the billionaires that the billionaire-owned media wants us to o7