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in line with that, for me the humanizing thing about cracking jokes in this situation is that it highlights the law that "actions matter," a law that many people are flouting today, causing very real damage to a great number of people, species, etc. sure most of us are complicit to an extremely small degree or whatever, but we're all going to need to believe in "actions matter" if we want to believe in ourselves and our future here imo. a billionare paying 250 million to go undersea in a broken tin can is funny, their death is funny, and it feels good to joke about it because the balance there is sooo far off of "actions matter" that it feels good to see the pendulum swing the other way for once, because there is a great amount of energy in the world today being dedicated to making it seem like actions don't matter, that only the market matters. the cynical side here is the one that begs us to keep suspending our belief in actions mattering, to deny the material reality and limits and wealth we all share together.

ꙮ (map), Saturday, 24 June 2023 18:49 (ten months ago) link

Good discussion. I am also starting to remember something else I take issue with, a certain prominent strain of religious opinion that it is just as bad to think something or by extension to say something as to do it, and it fact is worse if one is not right with the man upstairs as who among us etc.

Johnny Bit Rot (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 24 June 2023 23:27 (ten months ago) link

And so making fun of the arrogant I Know Better Than the Experts sunk CEO is in fact even more arrogant, DO U SEE?

Johnny Bit Rot (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 24 June 2023 23:32 (ten months ago) link

Every day as Warren G

sad Mings of dynasty (Neanderthal), Saturday, 24 June 2023 23:44 (ten months ago) link

We might need a thread devoted to making fun of billionaires killed doing risky/dumb shit:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/26/business/james-crown-obit/index.html

Is this a trend? Let's hope so.

il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Monday, 26 June 2023 19:51 (ten months ago) link

Among his many roles, Crown was chairman and CEO of his family business, the investment firm Henry Crown and Company. In addition to serving on the JPMorgan board, he was also a board director at General Dynamics. Crown had served on JPMorgan’s board since the early 1990s.

il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Monday, 26 June 2023 19:53 (ten months ago) link

The longer I ponder this trend, the more I find that I'm agin' it. Billionaires stupidly killing themselves en masse seems like a net positive on the face of it until you consider the billions that will then be siphoned to their Blink*182 fail(step)sons. It's an imperfect world but it can always be imperfect-er.

Fish Sticks in the Fanny Pack (Old Lunch), Monday, 26 June 2023 20:29 (ten months ago) link


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