Just feel like having a bit of a moan after reading another thread about McDonald's and people saying the happy meal toys were better when they were plastic ( they were!) And a poster or two complaining about them ending in a landfill just got me a bit annoyed and wanting to get on my soap box that whilst I know we have to ( and do ) things to help the environment like recycling etc it just feels a bit shit that every day people are making these small sacrifices which don't seem a lot in isolation but it just feels like when you combine it with say paper straws and other small things it just adds up incrementally to a more shit, tiresome standard of living especially for the normal person/ poorer people.
I know it's two different subjects but in this moment of moan-y-ness I'm struggling to compute how the average person getting say a happy meal toy or a plastic straw or not recycling 100% properly or using a car is an issue when you have massive corporations causing a shit load of damage to the environment through pollution from factories, oil spills and choosing more ecological damaging processes so they can make a theoretical 5 billion instead of 4 billion. And then you have the general wealthy, celebrities and politicians flying private jets everywhere for trivial things like holidays, sporting events, concerts, or meetings where seemingly nothing gets done politically. Like premier league football teams flying often less than an hour to get to away games and I think Taylor swift was the person who polluted the most through the use of her private jet or something. They do all of this and its the general public that get lambasted for choosing to drive what they deem as unnecessary and yes I get there's the issue of scale but you can't tell me these people who get private jets aren't also making unnecessary car journeys.
And we have politicians earning a decent wage whilst writing off loads of different bills or random costs as expenses whilst they or their colleagues make comments about how life isn't that bad and ways that people can save money to survive which sometimes you can't help but feel they're just mocking the lower classes. Which leads me to how they seem to have successfully demonised those on benefits to such an extent where some are gaining less than say £400 a month to live on and making out they are the problem whilst they don't go after the wealthy or their donors for the tax they are dodging/ evading or even giving out government contracts in the height of a pandemic to the tune of billions to companies that were sometimes only just formed and potentially connected to MPs, who then decide its not in the government interest to look into that waste.
On the subject of money and benefits and the media and government demonising those on benefits we literally have a house of Lords where many sign in for the day to earn their £300 a day and fuck off.
I'm just in a mood at the moment with lots of thoughts and complaints that aren't fully linked but in my head I just can't separate them argh!