A new word: scruppies.  Defined as a socially conscious upwardly mobile person. 

They espouse causes that involve no support costs:

• A good scruppie decries the death of 500 ducks–it costs nothing to say how terrible it is and to demand action. 
• A good scuppie remains discretely silent about twenty people killed on the road between Edmonton and Fort McMurray—to do something means expenditure. 

It is only a short time before the mining industry feels the wrath of a legion of sruppies.  Let me know if you are first.  Or maybe they never will, for a truly honorable scruppie will sit back and enjoy the checks coming from the family inheritance, discretely invested in profitable mining?

The cynic in me delights in this kind of news report.  It is all just about money! Principles, hurt feelings, even physical harm are assuaged by cash.  Noble principles of birth, morality, ethics, religion: all subject to the whim of cash.  Please comment to prove me wrong.  Here is the news report: 

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