Keeping money from going to the Harry Potter franchise isn’t just a symbolic gesture.

[itsmeholland@mastodon.social]

@epistomai @canleaf @inthehands so your solution is to pretend you live in an imaginary world where ineqyality never happened?

[canleaf@mastodon.social]

@epistomai @inthehands Bigots are people who are spewing bigotry. They deserve boycotts.

[realtegan@wandering.shop]

@rasmus91 @cambria @jillL @inthehands
I'd never become a billionaire because I'd never sit on the money that long. I'd be like, "Ooh, here's a charity that needs it!" or "Hey, that guy needs a new car for work," or "I bet I could revitalize this town by hiring a bunch of people, so let's see how that might work."

So I'd just never accrue the money in the first place.

[rasmus91@fosstodon.org]

@realtegan @cambria @jillL @inthehands and all that is probably much better for your soul or humanity or whatever you want to call it, than a billion $ in your portfolio

[obscurestar@mastodon.social]

@inthehands Rowling can't help it. She knows she's a shitty hack fanfic writer who plagiarized 'The Worst Witch' series of books, literally just turning the protagonist, Mildred, into a Harry Boy.

She's terribly afraid someone is going to realize she gender-flipped the protagonist, so the best smokescreen is to hate on trans people so no one could ever accuse her of being such a lazy cheap anti-women hack.

IIRC she also faked a rags to riches story about herself that wasn't entirely true.

[cambria@hachyderm.io]

@rasmus91
Or worse, think you _are doing_ those things. "I am helping people" * donates 0.000001% of wealth to money laundering scheme and brags about it.
@jillL @inthehands

[realtegan@wandering.shop]

@rasmus91 @cambria @jillL @inthehands

Money, to me, is a means to an end - that end being security and happiness. Depending on the person and the society, security and happiness isn't all that expensive. Anything left over should be used to help other people into security and happiness, thus creating a world that's even more secure and happy.

Wanting more and more money is just an illness - a failure to understand when you have "enough". That's how money perverts and rots a person.

[obscurestar@mastodon.social]

@inthehands I mean, stop me if you've heard this one before. In the Worst Witch, ordinary girl Mildred gets told she's a witch and taken to the magic world. She hops a steam loco to a bit castle/school with twisting magical corridors. There's a wealthy blond girl antagonist that looks down on non-witches and lower=caste witches. a cheery old dean who plays favorites for Mildred, the potions teacher doesn't like her. She has two friends and a familiar...

Speaking of, sounding familiar yet?

[rasmus91@fosstodon.org]

@realtegan @cambria @jillL @inthehands oh i agree.

If you have a house/home, means of transportation, food, some leisure time and enough air in the budget for the occasional family trip, why should you want more?

[oldfartrant@mstdn.ca]

@inthehands Her position is Trans Women are still men. No they aren't. I'd wager if you put 10 women up, Rowling would be unable to tell which are cis women and which are Trans.

[inthehands@hachyderm.io]

@rasmus91 @realtegan @cambria @jillL
The novelist Joseph Heller was at a party hosted by some…Rockefeller or whatever, let’s just say Rockefeller.

GUEST: Mr. Heller, doesn’t bother you that •you• wrote all these great novels but •he’s• the one who got all this money?

HELLER: No, I have something he’ll never have.

GUEST: What’s that??

HELLER: Enough.

[realtegan@wandering.shop]

@inthehands @rasmus91 @cambria @jillL

Thank you. This is *exactly* what I was talking about.

[inthehands@hachyderm.io]

@realtegan @rasmus91 @cambria @jillL
It’s one of my all-time favorite stories. And it’s about money, but it’s not •just• about money.

[mycroft@fosstodon.org]

@inthehands The money eventually becomes so large in a pile that it's power is timeless. It's like a lich's phylactery. If they gathered enough souls in the first place, of course they'll have it forever.

The systems in place are built to remove limits to the Epstein classes wealth.

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@realtegan @rasmus91 @cambria @jillL @inthehands Exactly. It's not that money rots the brains of billionaires. It's that, to become a billionaire in the first place, you had to be extraordinarily evil and shallow in your choices of what to do with money.

[k_leyton_cooper@mastodon.social]

@inthehands

[p_the_wanderer@mastodon.social]

@Theriac @inthehands Honestly this part has always bothered me so much. it was kind of supposed to be "don't make friends for their money" or sth but as someone who was helped by friends who were better off during hard times and who has helped friends when they were on hard times and I could... I can't imagine NOT doing that in some way seeing a friend in need.
(also I can't imagine being friends with someone for their money, but that's another thing).

[inthehands@hachyderm.io]

Just to clarify:

I’m less interested in shaming individuals for liking or not liking Harry Potter (or whatever their kink may be) than I am in the practical, concrete work of keeping money out of JK Rowling’s hands.

Less policing each other, more pitchforks pointed at billionaires.

[claralistensprechen3rd@friendica.myportal.social]

@inthehands Good because irrespective of who wrote it, those are pretty good stories and I'm particularly fond of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

[fnord99@mastodon.online]

@itsmeholland @arazil @inthehands this of course, but i mean the content as seen by a child will focus more on the magic and interactions between friends rather than deeper analysis relevant for adults