[DontGiveTwoFlux]

Racial inequality isn’t a one percenter problem if your child was Killed by the police. Pollution isn’t a one percenter problem if your kids all have asthma from inhaling coal fumes or have been drinking water with lead. I could go on.

These problems sound like they have nothing to do with wealthy people standing up for one cause or another. The issue is that the wealth is so often created or amplified by greedily outsourcing these problems to the powerless. The wealth begets more power, and institutions that launder the story of that wealth into a whitewashed canvas of do goodery.

[viklove]

I think OP is just talking about how only one-percenters have time/money to care and act on these issues. The rest of us are too busy running the rate race to lift our heads up and even notice what's going on in the world.

Look at how much more political activism there is in the US during the COVID crisis. People have more time since they're working from home, and they're able to actually participate for the first time in a long while. Imagine how many more people would be able to vote if election day was a national holiday. It's honestly criminal that it's not.