Resource Hoarding is a Crime Against Humanity

It is time we start calling billionaires what they truly are: resource hoarders. You cannot get to be a billionaire without hoarding resources. It simply is not possible.

All over the world, a tiny number of people control most of the wealth. If they were actually altruistic as some claim they are, this really wouldn’t be a problem because they would share what they have and no one would starve or be homeless. Unfortunately for the rest of us, there is no such thing as altruism among the obscenely rich. Their greed is insatiable. For the very rich, life is a zero sum game. There is only so much to go around, and for someone to win, someone else has to lose. For someone to win big, a lot of someones have to lose.

The fact is, there really is a finite amount of resources to go around. But there is enough to go around, or there would be if not for the resource hoarders. These few families (Trumps, Waltons, Kochs, to name three) grab all they can get while taking great pleasure in the misery they cause.

They deny climate change and block renewable energy alternatives at every turn in favor of the fossil fuel industry that fills their bank accounts. They steal water to bottle and sell while children in Flint, Michigan, haven’t had clean drinking water in years. They don’t care that people die because they can’t afford their lifesaving medications. No one should die at 26 because they can’t afford the insulin that keeps them alive!

The result of resource hoarding is that people die. Resource hoarding is murder. Resource hoarding on the obscene scale that is going on now is genocide. It is time for the resource hoarders to be held to account for their crimes against humanity!