It’s so funny watching libs gasp and clutch pearls
They don’t seem to understand where wealth comes from, they just see it as people who happen to be rich and might not be bad people. Possibly because they aren’t poor themselves or are just naive.
You’ve got people like me and others on this website who are openly laughing, joking and celebrating about this news. Probably not the mainstream perspective I’m sure.
You’ve got a huge portion of the general public which seems to be saying “yeah that sucks but it has absolutely no effect on my life”
Actually crying and posting about it to defend these poor misunderstood men is the absolute home of EXTREMELY middle class, New York Times reading regional sales managers.
We’re all just temporarily embarassed quadrillionaires and any day now our long hours and hard work will get us one of those many mansions. Any day now…surely before we turn 60. Just a round the corner now. Been working 60hr+ weeks and two jobs. It’s like the publishers clearing house. Can’t get there if you don’t put it in. Seriously got all these bang up ideas when that 10x lord’s blessing comes to futraition. All in the good lord’s time. Not sure how I’m going to pay for this cancer treatment, but thank the Good Lord Jesus we stopped that evil commie Bernie from getting in.
People don’t think, “oh fuck them, they’re billionaires that died doing something inherently dangerous.” They think, “what a horrifying way to spend the final hours or days of your life.” Yeah I think it probably imploded and they died days ago, but I think the 24 hour news channels are treating this as content. So people are just being told that the search continues for the missing sub. Normal people have been imagining normal people in a pitch black tube without food or water, waiting for days to suffocate.
You can also think both things, there is no need to reconcile the thoughts. I think that’s a horrible way to die and also I only really feel bad for the 19 year old kid. The same way I don’t want to see people get shot, but I’m also not crying for the Tsar.
The kid is more an Anastasia, not entirely un-tragic, but there’s something disgusting about focusing massive sympathy on one rich kid while ignoring untold suffering of others.
I’ve never actually seen that movie, but the kid originally wasn’t even supposed to be on it. I do wonder if his dad made him/bullied him into it. I don’t really hold children in the same regards as their parents. I think everyone is just fascinated because it’s so rare and stupid. Balloon boy wasn’t rich and that was all over the news.
Speaking as someone who is 100% against the death penalty and any sort of human suffering as punishment, even for the most evil billionaires and unfathomably cruel war criminals - no one forced them to get into the death tube. So many people (who are infinitely more innocent) die from similar suffering every day that I really can’t be bothered to feel bad for a billionaire and sketchy submarine tour business owner when they fall victim to their own hubris. It sucks for their families, especially the ones that were suckered into the sub trip, but the world will be an objectively better place with these people removed from it.
Leftists are correctly pointing out that when a boat carrying migrants capsizes in the Mediterranean and kills hundreds, the response from white folks and western media ranges from mostly silence to “well they shouldn’t have gotten into a dangerous boat and tried to come to Europe iLlEgAlLy”.
At first sight there’s a point to be made here about trust in institutions that you’d think “Well surely if this was dangerous it wouldn’t be allowed” or something, like if this was a tourist dive bell that went wrong I’d argue I wouldn’t get in it because I have 0 trust in institutions but your average person, yeah sure.
Hell I’d extend that even to the “in case of death we ain’t owe you shit” waiver as those seem way too common. But at the point where it says “the submarine is not tested or certified by any regulatory body” in plain text and you don’t have some sort of mental disability that’s on you, that’s entirely of on you, if the words “untested, unregulated submarine” don’t register to you as “stay clear” there’s nobody left to blame and also it’s hilarious
“untested, unregulated submarine”
And there’s this - Titanic Sub Avoided Safety Rules by Diving in International Waters: Experts
Maritime law is a gift to business.
I think of how Michael Jackson went through a bunch of doctors that told him no until he found the last. At some point these guys break through every guard rail right until it sent them to Davey Jones Locker in a ready-made coffin. The insidious thing is how this much concentrated wealth (and markets in general) are the ultimate Yes-Man that shapes the whole social fabric these individuals inhabit, right up until it kills them.
This has got to be the singular worst possible way to go out. Dehydrated and starving in a cramped space, while being forced to cuddle with other people in a freezing and pitch-black location while also living in your own piss and shit (and smelling others as well) and knowing that without a miracle you suffocate in a matter of hours. 🫢
Also the CEO is on board? He ain’t coming back alive
Weird I just remembered when Amazon workers were forced to piss themselves because the CEO said they weren’t allowed restroom breaks. Dunno why that suddenly popped into my head.
It’s far more likely that the carbon fiber hull tore and ruptured, or the seals broke catastrophically. They’re incredibly dead.
From what I’ve read, they would have heard an instantaneous implosion on the boat because the energy released would have been immense and sound travels very well through water.
So many tragedy sites are much safer and less expensive to visit. Hiroshima, Nazi death camps, Pompeii, the New Jersey field where the Hindenburg came down. It’s the hubris that’s funny and no need to apologize for that.
They’re literally going to look at the wreckage from the classic event of Hubris and Boat Lead To Deaths In The Ocean, a story that has been retold for a hundred years, in a poorly designed submersible driven by a guy that thinks this is easy and simple. It’s perfect.
Well, it’s not about the safety and expense. It’s about the status that’s accrued from doing it.
They’re living at the apex of Maslow’s Heirarchy. They’ve bought everything they ever wanted and besides. All that’s left is experiences. And what better an experience than an abyssal plain where lay the legendary Titanic? Maybe they could loot some bodies. I’ve heard the wreck site is pretty picked over by now.
Honestly what’s funny is a I bet so many wanted to do this and be able to tell off James Cameron. Like mfers the man studied years and took deep sea diving seriously while your ass went into a metal tube piloted with a cheap offbrand Logitech joystick (couldn’t even splurge for a ps4 controller!), ya fuck around and now you found out via violent decompression.
Maybe they could loot some bodies
do not open a door on a submarine 4 kilometers under the sea
I always thought it sucked that the Hindenburg ended the golden age of airships. Now that was a way to travel. Look, just don’t create the skin out of a bomb and you’ll be fine!
