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"I can hear the world going on outside. My love. Barricade the doors. I know you want to save the world but won't you come sit by the fireplace with me? I will make a soup and bread. I will lay out the cutlery. Put butter on the table, make a salad with lettuce and tomatoes. Could this be enough for you? Could we read on the sofa? Side by side, enjoying the silence? Could you hold my hand as we sleep? Could we wake up slowly, in the world that runs fast, too fast. My love. Could you be happy with me?“

Sentence 4, sentences 8 to 11, and sentences 12 & 13 are highlighted in yellow.

Photo of an adult capybara and five baby capybaras standing together in a field next to a tree, with a bridge, the bottom of a building, and a person in the background. The capybaras are looking off into the distance, alert.

Not to mention the way the money was made

Like, I get that famous actors have large amounts of money, some of them are even probably overpaid (I have complicated thoughts about how actors are paid because of the nature of acting as a career), but they are exchanging labor for money, and their salaries are an expense involved in making a movie.

But like... an actor is paid for a job. They’re a worker like the rest of us. Bezos isn’t paid for a job, he’s paid for being the person who owns Amazon and despite being obscenely wealthy, he does all sorts of shitty things and to underpay and exploit his workers, and avoid paying taxes, so that more of the money Amazon generates will be profit (worker’s salaries are not profit, they’re a business expense). 

These two mechanisms of acquiring money are fundamentally very different. 

“I’m gonna tell you guys something that honestly changed my life for good. So if you’re in college, and live in a dorm or an apartment, there’s a good change that a lot of people living in your dorm or apartment have an Alexa. And if you go into the hallway and yell loud enough... I’ll just show you the rest.” 

The girl is now standing in a dorm hallway. She yells at the top of her lungs: 

“Alexa! Play Fireflies!” 

There is a moment of quiet where several Alexas responding can be faintly heard. After a few seconds, Fireflies by Owl City begins to play loudly, followed a few seconds later by another starting up, then another, then another as the woman begins to walk down the hall, smiling and laughing, to a growing cacophony of Fireflies by Owl City.