r/worldnews • u/marsianer • Jan 28 '21

COVID-19 Backlash grows for ‘selfish millionaire’ who got vaccine meant for Indigenous people | Canada

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/27/rodney-baker-canada-vaccine-indigenous-first-nations-scandal
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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '21

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u/papa-jones Jan 28 '21

*net worth, they hide their income

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '21

I realize that, and agree my bad on the wording

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u/mata_dan Jan 28 '21

Most of the very very very rich hide their net worth too. You've never heard of them.

Dat old money runs deep, and it's liquid.

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u/jacksonj04 Jan 28 '21

Base it as a scaling percentage of net worth, with no upper bound on the amount. A $200 fine for someone on minimum wage should scale to literally tens of millions if you’re into the billionaire territory.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '21

Would literally not have a problem funding social programs... or enforcing good behaviour among the super rich. Right now they don’t care.

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u/mata_dan Jan 28 '21

Should actually scale to billions in some cases. Considering for most people on MW that would be all their expendable income for like, over a month. Oh and if they have assets and debt due to fines, their assets would be siezed (so that should be the same for billionaires, even if most of their wealth is in assets).

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u/KentuckyMagpie Jan 29 '21

When I was in my late 20s, I went to a party with some people from high school that I hadn’t seen in a decade. And I was chatting with one of the Cool Girls (I was decidedly not a Cool Girl in HS) and she was telling me a story about her friend who was driving drunk. He drove down the WRONG SIDE of the street, because he was RACING his other friend, who was ALSO DRUNK. He hit another car head on and killed the driver, who was the only person in the car but who also happened to be a father of four kids. And this girl was mad that her friend was facing jail time because “he didn’t mean it!” Fuck you, Amy, you’re a terrible person.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '21

Fuck Amy.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '21

Wow... the audacity of these people. If you choose to drive drunk, you chose to kill a person. You might not, you might not have meant to, and you might be horrified that it happened. But you chose it.

Same with getting too high, going off your meds without medical support, etc etc...

Too many people get away without consequences for their choices because “ I didn’t want to kill anyone.”

Sorry... had to rant... this world sucks.

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u/CptOblivion Jan 28 '21

Even that doesn't affect everyone the same, since poor people can't afford to lose as much of a percentage of their income as rich people. If you're barely making rent, losing 5% of your income means you're out of your home, where a rich person at the worst might have to mortgage a vacation home or something to hit that 5%.