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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Disaster capitalists? You know what, nevermind.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why nevermind? It's a very real thing, Naomi Klein wrote a fantastic book on the subject. I'd recommend it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why not just "capitalists"?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Capitalist on its own isn’t enough of a dirty word to most Americans.

Yet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

carpet baggers is what I call these scum.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Unfortunately, many people with Native ancestry here are “land rich, money poor,” which is what speculators are banking on. Fortunately a lot of them are on the more north side of the island, which didn’t burn. But it’s bad, and Maui was rapidly turning into Oahu even before the fire.