The guys in the band, the band of potentates, are looking for a way to escape from the planet. They are not the only ones, some of us also consider the idea, although only they can afford it. And neither are all the rich, within whose small group there are categories: millionaires, billionaires, billionaires, ultra-billionaires and billionaires. Only the latter will be guaranteed a seat on the rocket that will take them to Mars, where they will conveniently become extinct because there is only rocky ground there. For now.
The week that has convinced many Twitter users and others who do not express themselves on the networks of the convenience of taking the sidereal path began over the weekend with the words of Yolanda Díaz about the plans of the “immensely rich” to flee from a planet that is “going to hell”, that is, ours.
We correct the vice president: they are not “immensely rich”, they are much more than that. And the normal thing is that seeing what we are all up to, each one does their bit based on their possibilities, the normal thing, we say, is that they try to find a lifeline. They could also try to fix it, but it’s less funny.
With the speed of that spaceship in which none of us here will board, Yolanda Díaz became an absolute trend, and if it did not stay there it is because the debate came in Congress and because we all know that Elon Musk is exploited the Rockets. A lot of jokes on the networks, a lot of jokes, even in the parliamentary session that at the time of closing these lines is not going to make Feijóo president, and a lot of memes. Ruthless. Some are very well done and even funny, we are not going to offer any selection, if you look for them you will find them. It’s a shame that so much creativity is not dedicated to, for example, finding solutions to the “damn” in front of us.
The thesis of the frightened mega-rich is not new, although the recent publication of Douglas Rushkoff’s book has brought it to the fore: since the Cold War, bunkers have been marketed even for the middle class. Well, when there were still. Nor is it new that there is talk of this eventual escape to infinity or to New Zealand. And again it is nothing new that we stay with the anecdote and the meme and do not go into the heart of the matter: what can still be done.
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