Toot link; transcript:
Greta Thunberg could have, by now, carved out a very comfortable life for herself as a liberal grifter-celebrity offering platitudes about personal responsibility at Davos. Instead she connected the dots between ecocide, capital, and empire, aiming squarely at the heart of the beast. And now fresh out of captivity she downplays her own suffering to recenter the urgency of aid to the Palestinian people. No wonder she's hated by the fascist+lib coalition that rules this world.
Author: JP (@jpbreton@mastodon.social)
She wouldn't even have to grift. Her family is somewhat wealthy if I remember correctly.
I used to be rather skeptical about her, but she has more than earned my respect time and time again.
Her family probably has enough that she'd never have to work, but not enough that she'd be super comfortable doing so. Half a million dollar house, mildly famous in the arts with a very solidly upper middle class lifestyle, but no emerald mines to inherit in there.
😳half a million dollars house is considered a pricey home?!
Where I live, you find no sub 1 million dollar house…
Living in popular areas is expensive, it does suck.
We have those where I am too, but if you drive 45 minutes and avoid the suburbs, the same size house is 25% of the price or less. That's still twice what it was 10 years ago, but it is what it is at this point.
You drive 45 minutes and you are out of my country 😆🇨🇭
Lol, I bet the houses are real cheap though.
Her dad, i think, is a pretty famous Swedish actor, and her mum is a politician, i think. I probably got that wrong, but I know her parents are loaded.
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I was close.
Leveraging her privilege for good. What a gem.
yeah we all know how wealthy people never grift
"Don't have to grift" and "Don't grift" are two very different things.
well yeah, that was what i was pointing out.