• peoplebeproblems@midwest.social
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    1 day ago

    I think maybe the point about the Kid is being missed.

    Yeah super rich. Yeah didn’t want to be there.

    But to change things you need people with resources on your side. The young are significantly easier to do this with.

    If we demonstrate that we have empathy for all of the vulnerable (as we should) those young ones can see the power of empathy.

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      13 hours ago

      “Then I stepped back and gave them space to set [Suleman] up, because he really wanted to go,” she said."

      This is from the mom in a BBC article. And he was 19 not a kid.

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        12 hours ago

        In older articles they stated he did not want to go and they never gave his age. Were they early attempts at propagandizing sympathy for the rich?

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      23 hours ago

      Yeah, no. Kids want to be cool and respected, making it clear billionaires are hated will do so much more to wake them up

      And once a billionaire gives it all away to become just a normal person (with a few million in the bank as a safety net), we make them a hero