I personally like to reserve “parasite” for the investors, the ones who will literally send you to court if you try to be human to your employees.
It’s the same picture
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True and the worse the people are the higher up they go, great for the inverters tho, bad for society as a whole (https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=STYgeA9VSc) (the video goes over how the biggest investment companies stagger society as a whole, and how the normal person buying shares in a company DONT use their voting power to change the company for the better.)
Parasite species at least actually require resources from their host to survive. I think it might be too generous of a label
Normalise saying “fossil methane” instead of “natural gas”
Just Methane will do, fossil methane implies there’s a better methane out there
On one hand, synthetic methane is set to be rather important in the medium term future. On the other hand, bio methane is probably the worse greenhouse product at the moment.
I mean, if it’s methane but using another process to create it, it’s still methane, a very potent greenhouse gas, that’s so far hard to regulate and very easily leak unnoticed. It’s “better” than obtaining from oil, but still, it’s methane.
[insert methane is methane meme here]
Specifically synthetic methane will be efficiently burned, and much of it will be burned outside the atmosphere, so it’s hardly a greenhouse risk.
@naturalgasbad@lemmy.ca would have to change nickname
I’ve been calling all fossil fuels ‘artisanal energy’. It will eventually become as practical as other handmade, small batch products.
+1 for parasite
Hoarders don’t take things from others (not explicitly). So this term is too kind, and inaccurate.
They are stealing from us, folks. They’re fucking criminals.
I like “Robber Barrons”. I just wish it didn’t sound so cool.
Following the people from another comment thread - oligarchs. It might sound post-Soviet and old-fashioned to some, but it is a rather apt description - the power of few, if you translate literally
I’ve become personally partial to “landleech”.
Parasitic wealth hoarder, If you’re looking for something a little shorter, assholes works.
Or just oligarch or power addict. In the eyes of most people, wealth is about luxury, material goods and fancy toys. Of course that’s part of it, but at a certain point, wealth is no longer about luxury and toys, it’s about power and having control over resources everyone else depends on.
Another facet (at least specifically in America) is to de-stigmatize discussing personal income among the working class. We’ve been melt-brained hard to think it’s as private and taboo as discussing one’s most deep and darkest sexual kinks when really it’s just a tool of the owners to keep workers indentured in the wage-slave economy.
I’m doing my part! I’ve been bringing it up at lunch.
or oligarch, wait nvm how could i forget only the other has those, silly me how could i forget.
It is long past time we got over our child-like worship of billionaires.
Indeed, there’s nothing inherently exceptional in
billionaireswealth hoarders, according to many studies of this phenomenon. They are literally just lucky enough that they managed to get their hands on such a ludicrous amount of money, they really aren’t anything special.I never understood people instantly behaving differently the second they smell money in a person. It gets uglier the more they smell. Noone with money will ever deal with them. Never ever.
It’s epitome is this cult-like following or even worshipping of silly ass-clowns like musk.
I tried to look as poor as possible when i last dated. Golddiggers quickly leave then. I don’t get the followers and i even less get the rich fucks boasting around so they can never trust anyone ever anymore. Great tactics 😁
‘Money pervert’ also works
I like this but I can see them leaning into it and taking it as a badge of honor.
Wealth predator. It has more of that negative connotation it deserves
“Wage slave master”?
Sometimes I use the term “psychopathic hoarder class” when referring to this group of people.
“dragon”
Not incorrect. Makes them sound way too cool, however.
We might be in need of a Dovahkiin
I think it isn’t going to be that effective a phrase. People don’t understand why having lots of money (hoarding wealth) is a bad thing, necessarily, and it sort of implies that, if they were to just spend it it’d make the initial hoarding fine.
Gotta also focus on the fact that they essentially stole that money from workers through labor exploitation. The bare fact that they got the money to begin with is the problem, not just them holding onto it. If they were to spend it all on horrible capitalist enterprises rather than hoarding it, that’d be even worse. Even if they spent it all on “philanthropic” efforts, that’s still worse than the workers having their fair share and the government being able to actually have that money to spend on social programs through taxes.
