• aceshigh@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    No one was physically harmed, but there was financial harm. I wonder how many people lost their job due to the fire and now can’t pay their bills. The town only has 3k people, so I wonder how much of that population worked there.

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      2 hours ago

      Oh no, think of the poor capitalists. They might get mad and stop giving us their crumbs!

      Get their meals, eat the rich!

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      2 hours ago

      financial harm

      Ah, the type of harm that’s the easiest to manage. Can’t really blame this dude for the harm capitalism causes after the fact via suppression of basic social safety nets.

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      The warehouse was burned down because they weren’t paid enough on the first place.

      Either someone with some foresight gets ahead of the problem and starts paying people enough to live, cancelling debts, etc., or there’s now ~1-200 more people with little left to lose and the fires will spread.

      I know solidarity is unheard of in the US, but this is something that often builds it out of necessity if nothing else.

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      50 minutes ago

      Insurance will cover most of it. And there will be more jobs as things are cleaned up and rebuilt.