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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2024 15:41:04 JST Aral Balkan

   The only reason we listen to billionaires is because because they have a billion dollars. The only reason they have a billion dollars is because they were willing to profit obscenely from an unjust system and accept the role of being the standard bearers for inequality. Think about that.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2024 15:48:04 JST Aral Balkan

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     • CyberFrog

     @froge Clearly you haven’t benefitted financially from exploiting enough people and/or habitat yet. Would you be open to destroying a rainforest? I think that might help.

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     CyberFrog (froge@social.glitched.systems)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2024 15:48:16 JST CyberFrog

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     @aral@mastodon.ar.al this is why it rubs me the wrong way when people ignore my technical advice
     
     am I basically nobody? yes
     am I still offering sound and important advice that experts should listen to? also yes
     
     often when I'm ignored for long enough people begin realizing that despite my lack of status I know what the hell I'm saying still lol

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     Jorge Toledo :mastodon: (eldelacajita@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2024 17:21:17 JST Jorge Toledo :mastodon:

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     @aral As Argentinian cartoonist Quino once wrote, "you can't amass* a fortune without turning others into flour".

     * In Spanish, the word for "amass" in this context is "amasar", which means "to knead".