Lol. The idea that you think individual people making 60k a year where they are largely traveling nowhere other than to work and back are the ones that decrease their emissions by 97% is just bonkers.
That metric in the article, in conjunction with the OOP’s article, which quite likely accurate, doesn’t accrue enough accuracy on where the weight of blame lies imo.
The correlated idea borderlines on original sin nonsense. And yes, while simply existing in the inefficient system that is the US rises your carbon footprint, there are far more significant measures that could be made than telling people edging the poverty line to reduce their emissions.
Also your link you keep posting around doesn’t seem to account for cost of living, PPP, taxation etc, or if it does, it doesn’t seem to source it. It would be interesting to see how those numbers change with those variables accounted for.
Does Valve employ people at minimum wage? I’ve only heard good things about how much Valve employees make.
You know what was the original point right? About how Amazon makes its money off the backs of others being unfairly paid low wages.
And for arguments sake… I agree billionaires shouldn’t exist, and that any successful enterprise in a capitalist system is built on the exploitation of unfair wage distribution somewhere down the line (Steams could be it’s hard 30% fee); but I don’t think either of those were the implied point of the original post.