Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

I'm *really* excited by initiatives on this scale from people like Bezos, because he at least has the money and talent (people). Government is absolutely loaded but has great difficulty identifying and retaining talent. (Don't get me started on ideas...)https://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1168375858832084992?s=20 …

tbh, the cynicism is annoying enough for the undergirding "meh" sentiment alone — like, the second Bezos decides to take a real crack at it climate change is no longer an all-hands-on-deck imminent existential threat, but more of a checklist item post socialist revolution

What really irritates me is just that I don't think very many people actually care. This isn't how people act when they care. When your house is on fire, you don't start asking around to figure out whether the firefighters are pure enough of heart to put the fucking thing out

I also feel a lot of irritation at this. However, if try to get in the mindset of a True Believer, I get the following: Climate change and inequality are generated by the same thing. Corrupt capitalist systems that reward immoral billionaires and no one else

If you think Billionaires are *the enemy*, responsible for the evils of climate change and inequality, then you see any effort by this class to address one without the other as a dangerous distraction at best. They believe the only solution is deeply structural, and that any...

...efforts short of this are doomed to fail. Yes, this all or nothing philosophy is deeply destructive, especially to efforts to mitigate climate damage, but it *is* internally consistent.

I'm not saying that most people criticizing Bezos are True Believers who have thought deeply about this. But I do think they are taking their social cues from those that have. It's unfortunate.

I don't want to say that someone who truly fits this characterization is *impossible,* but I think they're roughly as feasible as someone who thinks that the proper way to respond to their house currently being on fire is to start fixing their sprinkler system.