Today I Learned

Having billions generally means not having to explain yourself

Having to rely on people to do things for you, even if you’re super rich, can be annoying. People that work for you take time off, get sick, so now you need other people to manage the other people to ensure that someone is always available, then you start to dislike some of those people, but managing who is around you all the time also takes effort, etc. etc. You can’t pay your way out of everything. Plus sometimes you just want to do things for yourself, and sometimes you just want to be alone.

The single biggest difference in the treatment there is, is based on wealth: in other words, one's wealth is the single biggest factor for discriminatory treatment there is.

Anybody genuinelly wanting to end the unfairness of descrimination on things which people did not choose would be focusing most efforts (not all, but the largest fraction) on ending or at least reducing that which is the largest and most impactful discrimination there is (and which is often a pathway through which other kinds of discrimination end up affecting people: i.e. a group is marginalized on some visible trait, so many more in it are poor, and then most of the actual suffering comes from the differentiated treatment dependening on wealth).

Instead, "strangelly", in those countries with voting systems that enforce power dupolies, the mainstream "left"-side party (which alternates in power with the "right"-side party) will at most loudly rage against a few other discriminations, never against wealth discrimination.

That's a circuitous path to class consciousness, but if it works I'm not complaining.

I saw a post once about how discrimination law doesn't recognise combinations.. so a company was found not guilty of discrimination against a black woman because they employ lots of white women as secretaries and black men as labourers, and were therefore 'diverse'.

That's true

People like this have money. That creates a barrier between them and "other"people. With enough money you never have to think about anyone below the line.

To be honest I don’t know. I’m continuously surprised by how few politicians and rich people are shot by people they have wronged.

Like if it was your only kid or something I don’t know how you hold yourself back in the face of this kind of injustice.

Wonder what the French would do?

You would have a great deal of difficulty just getting near them. Billionaires don't hang out at Walmart - ironically enough in this case.

I'd watch that movie

If you look deep, deep down (approx. 12,500 feet down) I'm sure you can find something nice to say.

It's not like it was an abortion or anything......

Drunk driving seems to be severely under prosecuted for well to do and connected people.

I think it’s changing partially due to body cams now. But it’s still pretty bad.

If anything, justice doesn't come if you can pay the price

It would take a whole awful lot to keep me from climbing a fence.

All except the families, I'd assume. The families they just had their representatives casually mention how it would be a shame if their children should somehow end up sold to wealthy men in Russia with particularly young tastes in girls.