Tom Perkins is a innocent victim too… or maybe not.
Like every other sick megalomaniac, he and his buddies got obscenely wealthy by profitably thrusting the externalizes they create onto the rest of society. If these people paid for just a fraction of the externalities they profit from, they’d be upper-middle class (if that). They are bums.
Too many people celebrate these megalomaniac parasites and need this shoved in their faces:
• Perkins partnered with Eugene Kleiner who started Fairchild Semiconductor which has created massive amounts of pollution issues that they thrust upon the rest of society.
Fairchild Semiconductor has leaked tens of thousands of gallons of toxic solvents into the ground which residents and even state officials strongly suspect caused a high rate of birth defects in the area.
Let me know when Perkins and his good buddy Eugene Kleiner are going to dip into their vast wealth to take care of all those people growing up with birth defects. Nah, just let the rest of society deal with it. Also, why put in pollution controls and cut into vast profits to do that when you can just be a bum who has others suffer the consequences?
Oh, and they’ve got a superfund pollution site:
Guess who mostly pays for superfund sites? For the most part, everyone except the billionaires. Yep, society does in many more ways than one. The vast wealthy sure as hell never live anywhere near superfund sites, that’s for sure. That’s for the “others” to do.
Just pay some fines down the road and keep being a megalomaniac, right?
• Perkins seeded Genentech. Once again, they sure don’t want to cut into those profits they “earned” by not cutting corners.
Genentech overlooked 80,000 adverse reaction complaints including 15,000 tied to deaths.
Reuters:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/21/us-roche-europe-idUSBRE85K1NH20120621?
There’s many more examples for Perkins if people bother to look…
These wealthy parasites want us to thank them for greedily pushing their externalities onto the rest of society. The can and should go to hell.
Average American taxpayers and the poor (dearly) pay for externalities:
Fast food, poverty wages: The public cost of low-wage jobs in the fast-food industry:
http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/publiccosts/fastfoodpovertywages.shtml
Airlines get $2.7 billion in taxpayer-backed loans while using poorly paid workers:
http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/22/epa-renew-polluters-pay-tax-to-fund-cleanups/?
Taxpayers foot bill for cleanup of polluted site in south St. Louis:
Disparities in the Impact of Pollution on the Poor:
Pollution disproportionately affects the poor:
http://www.wave3.com/story/11135969/enviromentalists-pollution-disproportionately-affects-the-poor
Low-Income, Minority Communities Disproportionately Exposed To Toxic Air Pollutants, Study Finds:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/148257.php
(This all just barely scratches the surface, by the way)
The poor (especially the poor) pay for externalities not just with their limited money, but with their time, suffering and even with their very own lives. For those that celebrate these megalomaniacs, let me know when the billionaires start living next to the superfund sites they create (and start paying for them in earnest along with all the damage to the poor that live there).
