I think that directly participating in a system that prices people out of homes by purchasing a multi-million dollar unnecssarily luxurious home is absolutely blame-worthy.
"Every month a notable company goes public. Every week a hot startup raises millions of dollars. And every day moms, pops, and teens check on their stocks."
"Once the shoeshine boy and the taxi driver offer stock tips, it’s time to sell."
If your immediate reaction to statistics (which I am not claiming the accuracy of, by the way, since you provide no sources) is "oh, it's because they're black" then congratulations, you're a racist!
Furthermore, the protests have not died down, there have been events that sparked more protests in more places. They're just not being reported as much because "oh well that's old time to move on to the next thing", says the media.
It brings my heart such great joy to know that there are people out there like you who are willing to argue about trivialities that don't actually matter.
Not everything is a deep philosophical discussion that needs to get down to absolute true statements.
Sometimes it's just someone, like me, who is sick of black people being literally murdered by police and thinks it's absurd that white assholes get more worked up over some property than over black lives.
I literally don't give a single shit about absolute ethical principles.
Stores already do tons of stuff to try to thwart these.
I worked at a store years ago and we had all these things implemented:
- Limit on gift card purchase amounts per customer, per day.
- Stopped stocking Western Union cards because they were such a scam target.
- There was also a scam where scammers would call the store itself to pose as a "corporate employee" who was "trying to verify that the gift card redemption system was working" and would have the cashier activate a gift card, run it as cash, and read off the numbers. And apparently that worked well enough that every time we activated certain gift cards, a massive box popped up on the POS screen saying "IF THIS TRANSACTION IS HAPPENING OVER THE PHONE, HANG UP IMMEDIATELY AND CANCEL THE TRANSACTION."
At a certain point there's only so much that can be done by the store itself.
So are you saying you're so quick to argue against points you might agree with because of this fallacy you're proposing? Or do you only use it to discredit anyone you disagree with by providing an absurd counterexample that actively insults the intelligence of the person you're talking to?
all 0 requests to stop, just constant downvotes for telling people, rightfully, how much boot they're guzzling