• dtc@lemmy.world
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    11 个月前

    As we disembark the planet please let oligarchs and billionaires go first. They took all the risk to achieve such great things. And if you look deep down (12,500’) you will see this is the way it has to be.

    • Faresh@lemmy.ml
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      11 个月前

      That reminds me of that scene in the Douglas Adam’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, where

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      the Golgafrinchans invent an incoming world-ending tragedy, in an excuse to send into space all people with useless/supefluous jobs (bureaucrats, hairdressers, telephone cleaners, etc.) to a new planet, saying that the remaining parts of society will come after.

      • CeruleanRuin@lemmy.world
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        11 个月前

        One must not forget that after including people like telephone sanitizers under what they deemed superfluous, the Golgafrinchans all died out from a plague contracted from a dirty telephone.