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This has been bugging me for ages: how can we fix social and climate brokenness when lots of 'good' people's job hang in the balance? How can we broach the subject "Your role in that corporation is actively bad for the world. The better you do, the worse you make the world." It's not something anyone wants to hear... but highly paid folk voluntarily absorb incredible cognitive dissonance to justify how they pay their mortgage. Stuff like "if I didn't do it, someone else less ethical would"...
I have a theory that lots of wealthy people are politically conservative because of the personal compromises they've had to make (the conscience pangs they've had to spend a career ignoring or dubiously justify) - it's broken their ability to be compassionate. To be idealistic. They figure "I sold out" so no one else should be able to find a higher moral ground either.
@lightweight I like this Jim Hightower quote, "Most of our (USA) super rich were born on third base and think they hit a triple."
United for a Fair Economy has used this baseball analogy to state that 95 percent of Americans were born in the batter's box. https://ips-dc.org/the_self_made_hallucination_of_americas_rich/
