Revealed: Yorkshire Water boss was paid extra £1.3m via offshore parent firm

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• rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s really hard to not feel disheartened by the naked and blatant corruption that rich people can just get away with.

  It’s very difficult not to feel as though there are no legal routes to any sort of justice for the way some people take advantage of others.

  I know I should grow up, but it still makes me sad to see how happy some people are to screw over others.

  Our water is being poisoned for money.

  Our world is burning for money.

  It’s just a very miserable day.

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  • sanity_is_maddening@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    No, you don't need to "grow up". You're right in feeling the way you do. Growing up in relation to that sounds like giving up. If anyone needs to grow up or give up is the people destroying Nature and people's lifes just so they can get more tokens in a rigged game that always benefits them.

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  • Davriellelouna@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s really hard to not feel disheartened by the naked and blatant corruption that rich people can just get away with.

    It was always like this throughout human history.

    Representative democracy was supposed to create a balance. But representative democracy is failing because of :

    • Citizens not paying enough attention
    • Unlimited donations to political parties (Most European countries have a maximum cap)
    • The voting system (FPTP)

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  • Cherry@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They are hoping you just give up and be quiet. They keep pushing the boundaries of tolerance. Greed and what the greedy will do from a minority of parasites needs to be talked about, needs to be called out.

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  • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That wouldn’t be “growing up”. That would be giving in and accepting it.

    People destroying other people’s lives and the world around them, for their own personal benefit and greed, should never be acceptable.

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• gnutrino@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Company says extra payments relating to work for Kelda Holdings were covered by shareholders not billpayers

  And where is the money paid to those shareholders coming from?

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  • cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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• rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Could be worse. Could be south West Water who poisoned an entire town with sewage drinking water, laid off a bunch of staff to cover the fines and then gave their C-suites a big bonus for handling the crisis.

  Water monopolies need to be broken up or nationalised if they are ever to benefit consumers.

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  • Denjin@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And cut off water to 13,000 people for nearly a week and continues to blame “victorian infrastructure” for their problems despite being in sole ownership of that infrastructure for 36 years and not doing a single thing to improve it.

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  • Tweak@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    My south west tap water either smells like sewage or a swimming pool, nowhere in between, and if I try to use a Brita filter the filter goes off within a week.

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• sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And then people wonder why CEOs get Luigi’d

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