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Let's make this simple.
Elon for example is worth 180 billion. His private jet, which costs $17k/yr to refill, is worth $62 million, or 0.03% of his net worth.
The average person, maybe lower middle class to middle class, is let's say worth about $250,000. If they bought or leased a car worth $45k, that would be 18% of their net worth.
It is probably the equivalent, or LESS than the equivalent of someone in the middle class, buying a candy bar. And they can do it over and over again with no repercussions.
And jet fuel is incredibly pollutant, and billionaires pollute millions of more times in general than the average person.
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/billionaire-emits-million-times-more-greenhouse-gases-average-person
I'm fully in support of these protesters and hope they don't stop.
He is rich as fuck but "worth" is a stupid metric since he could never liquidate all that money.
He couldn't "even" afford Twitter that's why he tried to back out of the deal and had to get investor help to buy it when he was forced too.
This is a dumb and irrelevant argument sorry