Or just oligarch or power addict. In the eyes of most people, wealth is about luxury, material goods and fancy toys. Of course that’s part of it, but at a certain point, wealth is no longer about luxury and toys, it’s about power and having control over resources everyone else depends on.
‘Money pervert’ also works
Wealth predator. It has more of that negative connotation it deserves
I like this but I can see them leaning into it and taking it as a badge of honor.
Fecal dragon?
Normalise saying “fossil methane” instead of “natural gas”
I’ve been calling all fossil fuels ‘artisanal energy’. It will eventually become as practical as other handmade, small batch products.
Just Methane will do, fossil methane implies there’s a better methane out there
On one hand, synthetic methane is set to be rather important in the medium term future. On the other hand, bio methane is probably the worse greenhouse product at the moment.
I mean, if it’s methane but using another process to create it, it’s still methane, a very potent greenhouse gas, that’s so far hard to regulate and very easily leak unnoticed. It’s “better” than obtaining from oil, but still, it’s methane.
[insert methane is methane meme here]
Specifically synthetic methane will be efficiently burned, and much of it will be burned outside the atmosphere, so it’s hardly a greenhouse risk.
@naturalgasbad@lemmy.ca would have to change nickname
I think it isn’t going to be that effective a phrase. People don’t understand why having lots of money (hoarding wealth) is a bad thing, necessarily, and it sort of implies that, if they were to just spend it it’d make the initial hoarding fine.
Gotta also focus on the fact that they essentially stole that money from workers through labor exploitation. The bare fact that they got the money to begin with is the problem, not just them holding onto it. If they were to spend it all on horrible capitalist enterprises rather than hoarding it, that’d be even worse. Even if they spent it all on “philanthropic” efforts, that’s still worse than the workers having their fair share and the government being able to actually have that money to spend on social programs through taxes.
Property is robbery
Hoarders don’t take things from others (not explicitly). So this term is too kind, and inaccurate.
They are stealing from us, folks. They’re fucking criminals.
I like “Robber Barrons”. I just wish it didn’t sound so cool.
Following the people from another comment thread - oligarchs. It might sound post-Soviet and old-fashioned to some, but it is a rather apt description - the power of few, if you translate literally
Plantation Owner
Too broad. Wealth hoarder describes everyone with a mortgage as well as grandma Sally and her pension plan. Anyone who saves for retirement is a wealth hoarder.
It’s not hoarding if it’s only a little. Everyone who actually earned it themselves through wage labor is not hoarding.
There are millions of people in the U.S. whose wealth comes from the increase in the property value of their family home. This is unearned wealth.
Of course, you’ll have a hard time convincing most people of that last bit. Which is why billionaires are the more popular enemy rather than the middle class.
What if you just save money for retirement, not property?
You mean by investing the stock market? Or literal cash under the mattress?
Literal cash under mattress
Why not do that? Because of inflation, you lose money doing that. It’s the last resort of someone who has no other options for saving their money, such as low level drug dealers.
And I fucking hate it. It just incentivizes not allowing more housing for those that need it because MuH PrOpErTy VaLuE!!
Fucking greed everywhere…
Wealth crimes
I’m old school, I stick to calling them boss, capitalist, and bourgeoisie
I’ve become personally partial to “landleech”.
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Parasitic wealth hoarder, If you’re looking for something a little shorter, assholes works.
I personally like to reserve “parasite” for the investors, the ones who will literally send you to court if you try to be human to your employees.
True and the worse the people are the higher up they go, great for the inverters tho, bad for society as a whole (https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=STYgeA9VSc) (the video goes over how the biggest investment companies stagger society as a whole, and how the normal person buying shares in a company DONT use their voting power to change the company for the better.)
It’s the same picture
No you are Spiderman dot jpg
Parasite species at least actually require resources from their host to survive. I think it might be too generous of a label
