Over several articles recently - mainly the ones detailing Big Pharma's blatant lies about why drug prices are so high, but it's here too - I've seen more than a few posters (QQQ, unshavenyak, etc) defending the vampire squid position of acquiring money/wealth to the detriment of literally everything and everyone else, and, uh...well, that's certainly a take.
I mean, they decry the problems because there's no rational way they can deny them...but it seems like they have invested directly or indirectly, and so anything that threatens their investments must be denounced as "not the perfect way to solve the problem" or just "it's too hard, so let's leave things as they are" type of perspectives.
It brings to my mind the French nobles who cared not a whit about the problems of their lessers, and the fact that it got so bad that the lessers let them know about it in no uncertain terms.
So...will no one rid us of these turbulent, money-grubbing vampire squids? Asking for friends.
