• Eyck_of_denesle
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    9 months ago

    No offense. Just a genuine question. Where do activists like Greta get income or the money to travel or just for day to day living? Especially considering she has been doing this since a young age.

    Pls don’t take my comment as in a bad light. I’m the same age as her so I always wondered. The answer could be NGO’s collecting donations but I’m not sure.

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      9 months ago

      Her father is an actor and her mother an opera singer who has won Eurovision. They are wealthy.

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      9 months ago

      article

      It mentions her donating earnings from books she sells as well as award prizes to NGO’s, and it mentions her travelling on her parents’ dime.

      Those award prizes can go into the 6 and 7 figures, apparently.

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        9 months ago

        I bought her book so sure that helped. Give me a link and I will donate to. She doing good work. Wish she could be charge of her government. She the type of world leaders we need.

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      9 months ago

      Organizations like Fridays for Future are funded by donations and part of the money goes towards protests and publicity. I assume they allocate some money to have these prominent people present.

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      9 months ago

      It’s a very good question to ask and anyone who gets mad at you over it isn’t worth taking seriously.

      I assume she just has rich parents that pay for everything.

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      9 months ago

      There’s a few large orgs like Extinction Rebellion that are really organised. Greta probably takes the train which isn’t that expensive in Europe and then couch surfs because that’s what being a hippie is all about

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      9 months ago

      Her parents are incredibly wealthy.

      It’s a complaint many have with her. She comes from the same class of people that are responsible for most of the problems of the world. It’s genuinely off-putting but there’s really not that many choices out there for people with this amount of influence and money who are willing to take up this fight.

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      9 months ago

      She might get paid for interviews etc.

      Or she might just have a patreon or something.

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      9 months ago

      She’s Illuminati. She was born into it. Only an illuminati kid would be given such a huge international platform.

        • 1ostA5tro6yne@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          more people in my local community irl believe in the literal world-controlling illuminati than not; i can easily believe this is someone stating their actual position, and in fact i’m surprised i haven’t yet heard this take from a local.

          the purpose of satire to highlight an issue. satire that can’t be distinguished from a real person speaking their mind is failed satire.