If some of you are so against the wealthy becoming wealthy,...nobody is making you support them by purchasing their products and services. It is you, after all, that is making them wealthy. Move along,...you are free to make other choices.
Actually, for the most part, it IS unavoidable. That's the true deviousness of how the ultra-wealthy became what they are: By being unavoidable.
You want to buy simple food? Just food and water? That's IT? Guess what: You're stuffing money into one of THEIR pockets. That supermarket, that fast food place, even that seemingly simple place that offers "organic" foods... yeah. It goes towards THEM.
Same with your electric bill, for instance. Gotta have heat to get through the winter? Guess what: using that heater to warm your house, you're making some ultra-rich guy richer.
That's the system these useless toads have set up.
Oh sure, you COULD avoid it... by going out into the frosty wilderness, chopping some trees down, building a little hut, and then sitting perfectly still in it and doing not much of anything. Provided, of course, that an area where this is even possible actually exists near you. For many, it doesnt.
That, I think, is part of why people get frustrated by hearing of these fools. They know full well that jerks like Bezos are almost incomprehensibly nasty... yet in every direction, it's essentially just another Bezos.
That being said, I've never seen anything hugely wrong with someone being wealthy. There are 2 important things though: 1, how they got there, and 2... what they do with it. There are those out there who can be good, and those who can be bad, it's not exactly a "well every one of these is bad" sort of thing, even if it can seem like it.
But with someone like Bezos... yeah, it's not exactly hard to figure out why some cant stand him. Particularly if you hear what his company is *really* like. But, there are others who might be very rich, but they arent walking piles of awfulness.
Best thing I think most people can do isnt so much to go out of their way to avoid supporting these guys... as seriously it's mostly impossible... but instead, put in some real effort to support the little guys. Go to your local mom & pop store, for instance. Stuff like that, and buy from them. You cant ALWAYS do that, but... doing it is good.
I would rather see raw materials mined from outer space
For whatever reason this idea is just awesome and satisfying to me. I dont even know why. In reality it would probably be remarkably boring, but still, there's just something darned appealing about the idea of mining SPACE ROCKS.
Which is odd, I have like, zero interest in space stuff. But that idea still fascinates me.
