• Lauchs@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Indoor plumbing has actually done wonders in the developing world.

    It’s weird though, when the argument is billionaires should give up their stuff, that’s fine but when it’s we who might have to make sacrifices, that’s morality preaching? Seems incredibly conveniently selective.

    I get that no one likes thinking of themselves as complicit but that seems a pretty poor foundation for ideology.

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      2 months ago

      Nobody is talking about billionaires “giving up their stuff” or making a “sacrifice”. This is about wresting ownership of the means of production away from the capitalists. I don’t know exactly what you mean by “complicity” in this particular discussion, you’ll have to clarify.

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          2 months ago

          Unclear. Are you referring to human rights abuses in cobalt mining? Are you talking specifically or abstractly? About a specific industry or generally? Individually or at the national level?