Pacific Gas & Electric, the utility company that serves much of northern California, has been shutting off power to hundreds of thousands of people lately in order to prevent their poorly maintained infrastructure from producing sparks that cause wildfires. This, of course, is an absurd state of events, but have you been watching the way that people talk about this on social media!?!?!?

Silicon Valley tech millionaire: Wind howls across the silent landscape. The sun glows an eerie red. My body grows weak from hauling supplies to my home, as my children cower in the dark. We are cut off from our community, and we huddle in our home afraid of the darkness. The ripe avocados go bad because we can not put them in the refrigerator. I can not charge my Tesla.

People in Africa and India: Cool story, bro.

Silicon Valley tech millionaire: You don’t understand! This is the United States! This should not happen here!

People in Texas, Florida, and especially Puerto Rico: Oh, really? Tell us more!

Silicon Valley tech millionaire (who made his money from exercising stock options from some ethically-challenged tech company): This is different! Hurricanes are natural disasters! This is happening because PG&E was maximizing shareholder value without regard for the societal implications of its actions!