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Bratty Billionaires Are Baddies
Consider the true cost of Amazon products and rocket-teering
Very Unpopular Strong Opinions Blog by Christyl Rivers
Don’t order anything, just take a walk outdoors
Don’t buy their stuff. When you do you enrich them more, and they will deliver it via a million carbon-monoxide pumping trucks on the roads that taxpayers fund (never billionaires) and you may never see a quiet, lovely suburb again.
You will also find all your attention and time is given to objects and false online lives, not to the real world we must get out and rescue if we are ever to thrive.
Having instant gratification and tons of stuff that pollutes the air, water, soil, and landscapes is much like being addicted to crack cocaine. There is an instant payoff followed by an enormous long-term cost. In fact, our serious addiction to fossil fuels is indeed, killing people every day.
However, we are killing more forests, animals, grasslands, and oceans than we are killing people, at the present moment; maybe because we are so distracted.
The richer a few become, the less likely it is for you to have your rights, votes, and even a voice. All these things are now tampered…