Jackiejackielovescompchem32@scicomm.xyz
Oct 13, 2026, 1:51 AMThe entire opulence and splendor of the rich is financed by your austerity, by you going without
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- Jackiejackielovescompchem32@scicomm.xyzOct 13, 2026, 1:54 AM
It's not jealousy though. I'm not jealous of the Epstein islands and the Diddy parties. I'm not jealous of the white house dinners, where they sip on expensive french wine while they laugh about the forever wars we're paying for. I'm not jealous of the elite lifestyle or the celebrity lifestyle. They all seem miserable, exhausted, and isolated from human connection.
I just think the common person should be able to, like, enjoy local food, and be able to go to fun events, without it costing 40 dollars just to bowl or eat a burger.
And I resent the fact that transportation is so expensive.
Like, I'm a college kid, and it wasn't like this for college kids in the past!
Oct 13, 2026, 4:25 AM@jackielovescompchem32 I'm an Old PErson.
We can figure out to share those burritos.
We can sing John Denver songs about being a country boy. John Prine songs about blowing up our TV.- Oct 13, 2026, 4:26 AM
@jackielovescompchem32 (but you're right. It wasn't like this for colege kids of the past.
HERE, you can still ride your bike and take the bus. Come to Champaign-Urbana!) 
Naomi ElizabethNaomiElizabeth@chaosfem.twOct 13, 2026, 4:10 AMAnd because of that, every billionaire is a mass-murderer by a million paper cuts.
Because of the sheer number of choices that the majority of us are forced to make - through being made to fear for our livelihoods - in favor of some distant billionaire investor's privilege, over the well-being of the millions of others like us.
They live opulently within other people's means, like parasites or cancers (preventing their hosts from living comfortably within their own), not just corrupting and deregulating the functions of one body to steal from it to serve their own ends, but by rotting the whole of society from the inside out.