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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago

The old men who run the world don't care because they'll be dead soon anyway.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Normal old people still care, because they care about the world and the people they love, whether or not they're still around. Sociopathic corporate and political leaders, however, don't care. The issue is not so much the age as the pathological selfishness that got them into those positions in the first place.

[-] markr@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Plus they understand that they will be safe while the peasants go through the polycrisis’ genocide .

[-] krashmo@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

People who think they'll be safe while everyone else suffers are just as deluded as those who think there is no climate crisis.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I read an article a while back about tech bros talking about surviving after "the big event" and they couldn't figure out how to stop their security forces from rebelling and not kowtowing to some wimpy tech bro after society collapses. They came up with ideas like restricting food access and, I'm not joking, exploding collars. These people are idiots.

[-] const_void@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Yep, age doesn't matter here. Just look at Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos. They're young-ish and have no problem with watching the world burn.

[-] Rhaedas@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Much more than watching.

[-] designated_fridge@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Pff, this has to do with people caring more about their polling numbers than the environment.

Actually saving the environment requires some hard sacrifices and it's hard to be the elected leader who tells their voters that they're going to pay more and get less.

But in non-democratic countries you're right of course.

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