“We are very proud of this! We are nobodies, we have no money, nothing!” Tommaso Cacciari, from a group calling itself No Space for Bezos, told the BBC.
“We’re just citizens who started organising and we managed to move one of the most powerful people in the world - all the billionaires - out of the city.”
The wedding kicks off later this week, and has a star-studded guest list of the rich and famous that is rumoured to include Kim Kardashian, Mick Jagger and Leonardo diCaprio, as well as several of the Trumps.
No matter how one looks at that assertion, it’s just plain fucking wrong.
Did slave owners build Venice? No. Rich Romans? Also no. Someone who isn’t a slave owner but worked all his subjects to the bone? Nope as well.
You have it backwards. Do I miss the /s?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venetian_slave_trade
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Republic_of_Venice
Bezos doesn’t come from a rich family
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos
Bezos is a rich trader, like the Venetians. Compared to them he doesn’t look that bad.
Downvoters, these are facts and OP is wrong. You should’t build your convictions on lies. Find valid reasons for the things you want to do.
Venice as a city predates the independent republic by roughly 2 centuries
By your logic, Bezos built Washington, which is where Amazon started
By your logic, people visit Venice for the fisher village huts.
If you don’t see what the elite does, how can you live in an equal society? Then nobody does those things and the society crumbles or those who do become the next elite.