I think we also need to put the fear into the rich.
Like, if the result of someone having their factory dump mercury into the town drinking water was that guy was beaten to death, then the rich would maybe behave a little better.
If the guy who steals his employee’s tips got up one morning and found every window in his house was smashed, maybe he’d think again.
Some people operate only at the most basic level of moral reasoning: “Will I be punished?” They don’t care about other people. They don’t care about laws.
At the end of the day, might makes right. If you can’t enforce your will, there’s no cosmic ref coming to call a time out. Unfortunately, the rich have a lot of might via the police and such. But they’re still just bags of meat like everyone else.
We need more Luigis, and we need enough solidarity that no jury would convict.
We need to get money out of politics.
I think we also need to put the fear into the rich.
Like, if the result of someone having their factory dump mercury into the town drinking water was that guy was beaten to death, then the rich would maybe behave a little better.
If the guy who steals his employee’s tips got up one morning and found every window in his house was smashed, maybe he’d think again.
Some people operate only at the most basic level of moral reasoning: “Will I be punished?” They don’t care about other people. They don’t care about laws.
At the end of the day, might makes right. If you can’t enforce your will, there’s no cosmic ref coming to call a time out. Unfortunately, the rich have a lot of might via the police and such. But they’re still just bags of meat like everyone else.
We need more Luigis, and we need enough solidarity that no jury would convict.