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Why would I be mad at corporations stealing trillions when there are poor people getting dozens of dollars!
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while this is correct in a vacuum, it's like saying "You can be mad at somebody who accidentally walked into you while looking somewhere else, and you can be mad at somebody who shat on your rug, kidnapped your pets, and burned your house down."
clearly there's very, very different levels of anger involved here, and they're very, very different problems. so much so that if somebody came to you complaining about both of those things, like "God fucking damn it, a guy walked into me in the train station today, he said sorry but he should have been more aware of his surroundings. Like, holy shit, people are just so inconsiderate these days. I was having a bad day at work as well, so that just made it ten times worse. Also, somebody burned my house down and my pets are gone and there's a big turd on my rug, that also kinda sucks." then you would also be very confused at their reaction. I, personally, wouldn't be like "Yeah dude, both of those problems suck, I feel you" I would instead be like "...what? Holy fucking shit dude, we've gotta get you a new place and call some people! Why do you give a shit about the guy who walked into you? Come on, let's go!"
people doing whatever with whatever money they can scrounge up is infinitely less of a problem than an entire class of obscenely, just absurdly rich people stealing all our surplus value, enforcing a system of harsh labor for billions, refusing to redistribute sufficient resources to even allow people to have their basic needs met (which would still leave them billionaires), destroying the world's ecosystems for profit, etc etc, and so using your time and potentially effort to campaign against both these problems (the former being caused by the latter, even!) is just deeply silly and worthy of a dunk.