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Mark Zuckerberg lost $119 Billion dollars on the stock market today (7/26/18). This is the largest loss of wealth in a single day in modern stock history.
This will literally not change his lifestyle or effect his livelihood at all. He is still a multi-billionaire.
If I worked every single day, for the rest of my life, at $15/hr - which is more than twice the national minimum wage - I would never make even 1/1000th the amount of just the money that Zuckerberg lost today.
If I worked every single day, for the entirety of the time that anatomically modern humans have existed (200,000 years) - at $15/hr - I would still not make one tenth of the amount of just the money he lost today.
And he is still a billionaire and will lose literally zero luxury or well-being from what happened today.
You want to know how absolutely grotesque modern wealth inequality is?
There you go.
And THAT is why you can’t just say “well those billionaires obviously worked hard for that wealth”, because they literally did the exact opposite
I think gentrification is a good thing, the only criticism I have is that it always benefits white people the most. I don’t see anything wrong with pushing away hood niggas who would never change their attitude, mindset or lifestyle. Changing up those neighborhoods will slowly push these niggas away farther from a civil society that doesn’t function on “walk straight with your head low.”
You have a racist and wildly incorrect view of how gentrification works.
And if you’re a person of color, you have allowed White people to teach you what they want you to think gentrification is, and not what it actually is.
The most glaring part is that you seem to think gentrification only affects “undesirable” Black people.
A long time ago I posted an article about how gentrification in Oakland is absolutely tearing apart Chinatown. At this rate, Oakland’s Chinatown district will cease to exist because contrary to popular belief, some Asians are just as financially vulnerable as Black people.
BUSINESS OWNERS are being forced to leave. [Source 1] [Source 2]
The entire culture of a diverse city is slowly being erased. Gentrification doesn’t do anything to help crime, it simply displaces everyone who doesn’t make enough money to assimilate into it. And that includes many different races of law abiding citizens.
There’s a new AC transit project happening in East Oakland, and this project thats designed to help tech worker millennials has absolutely destroyed the future of some local small businesses in East Oakland because it erased all of the street parking in front of their establishments.
The idea that gentrification only pushes out “undesirables” is such a wildly racist and inaccurate statement. Gentrification displaces mothers and fathers and children and just everyday people who are already struggling to make rent as it is.
Gentrification doesn’t “improve” these areas they simply diplace families and force people to move into even worse more crowded places.
The fact that this person would rather see black People displaced, “thugs” or otherwise, rather than addressing the root causes of violence in the hood (which is usually poverty and a lack of decent education options) is astonishingly sad.
New trend or trope I would KILL to see in sci-fi novels:
Rich industrialists fund space travel and gain the means to leave the planet and colonize Mars to leave a ‘dying/depleted’ Earth behind. Only the 1% have the means to afford a ticket on board the ships and ‘start fresh’ on the red planet in domed cities or whatever.
And then with the people most responsible for destroying the planet and depleting its resources gone, the remaining 99% of people ‘left behind’ on Earth construct new socialist societies, implement clean energy and redistribute the existing resources while of restoring the planet’s renewable resources and healing the damage done by pollution and irresponsible waste management.
Cut to a few hundred years later where Earth has a thriving population on a thriving planet that is not at all the doomed and dying and ‘used up’ place the Mars colonists thought it was when they left for the planet they’re still attempting to terraform so they can step out of their scattered little bubble cities that don’t allow for any real growth, innovation or exploration.
Earthborn character to a Martian: “Guess the grass isn’t always greener on the other side, huh? Oh wait, you guys still don’t have grass over there yet, do you? Whoops, my bad.”
assuming Mars society hasn’t collapsed in on itself when a bunch of billionaire entrepreneurs discover they don’t have the skills to plump a toilet
