It's because those billionaires are down there boosting the economy and creating jobs... for search and rescue teams.
I'm honestly thankful for the educational content that has come out of this. I'd always known that I didn't want to cram myself into a tiny, pressurized soup can, but now I can point to the exact reasons why.
Especially one built by a guy who scoffs at safety protocols
tHeY jUsT sLoW uS dOwN
Don’t you see? Rich people create jobs! Migrants just sit around and collect money from the hard work of everyone around them!
Oh wait, it’s the opposite isn’t it…
Best I can do is spent some of the claps I have left from the generous clapping during covid.
Overheard:
"They paid for the full Titanic experience and that's what they got. What's the problem?"
If these dumbasses have enough money to drop on a ticket aboard this sub to look at something you can see on a documentary, they should also have to foot the bill for the rescue mission. I'm sure all these rescue programs are tax funded that they dodge themselves. So, not only are they squirreling and eating up money we could all be using, but now we're picking up the check.
while i understand the sentiment, it is quite novel when a submarine is lost vs when a surface ship is lost
When surface ship is declared lost that's usually because it's already became submarine.
I laughed at this and I don't like it.
you've got to get yourself killed in a hot way to get my attention sweetie, okay? Non of that self preservation shit the poors are into
It's easy to polarize with such a headline/picture. Reality is way more nuanced than this:
Migrants are in fact being saved from shipwrecks, it is (sadly) in the news every week or so. The main problem is that these migrants don't have communication devices with them to signal emergencies, unlike the submarine. The boat on the surface alarmed emergency services when they lost connection with the sub, starting the rescue operation. It is difficult to rescue a boat of migrants, when you don't even know that they are in danger in the first place.
Secondly, the harsh reality is that most migrants try to enter a country illegally. Which by definition, is a huge risk on their part. The rich people on the sub were not doing anything illegal. However, in both cases, the people in or on the boat accepted the risks involved in their endeavor.
@Ronno the problem is making the natural human right of migration illegal in the first place.
Nobody cares that they are millionaires!
You think the coastguard is only helping them because they are millionaires? No they are trying to help because it's their job!
I guess all those miners getting stuck in mines during collapses and millions of equipment was shipped over to try and save them over weeks of time was because the miners were all millionaires.
You have a fucked up view of the world if you think only millionaires get helped in emergency situations.
That's not really comparable. When any citizen of a country gets lost either at sea or on land, large probably also multi million dollar searches are performed.
The difference is more to do with whether they're immigrants or natives.
Small correction, it has to do with whether they're citizens or not.
But being a billionaire also helps.
But it is also absurd that we, on one hand, agree that all human lives have equal worth.. and on the other straight up consider a citicizen to be worth more than 1000 non-citizens.
I don't know how one can possibly argue that it is humane and in line with what we say our values are.
But silver lining, we now know we can get the rich to take care of themselves if we offer them sketchy exploration opportunities too exclusive for the poors
i kinda wish the rich people had to deal with the pooping situation
I'm out of the loop on this one. What happened?
Rich dude created a company that provides submarine tours of the titanic wreckage, except he built it and operated it stupidly (off the shelf "camping" parts, bad weather conditions). Now he's trapped in the submarine with like 4 other folks where no one knows where they are, and they are expected to run out of oxygen in like 12 hours from posting this.
Super tragic but like, totally avoidable.
Some rich people got put into a submersible where the glass hatch is bolted to the vehicle. The pilot then proceeds to turn on the Xbox controller to activate the vehicle. None of these rich people thought they should ask if the vehicle had and safety precautions, or perhaps a fucking steering wheel. The media has gone nuts over this story. Like "balloon boy" nuts.
@jeebus @LoreleiSankTheShip the "Xbox Controller" concern is a little bit of a media boogeyman. Similar controllers are used for military vehicles too.
A bunch of super wealthy dudes (including a bloke who went to space with Mr. Amazon and two members of one of Pakistan's biggest petrochemical families) got into an obvious death trap after signing a waiver that said that there's a decent chance that it'd kill them and now that it's gone missing multiple governments are spending millions of dollars on an attempt to rescue them on the off chance that they're actually still alive because the lives of the wealthy matter more than the lives of normal people.
The US federal government values the average citizen's life at something like ~$12 million. This is mostly for policy like if 1,000 people a year die from something, say an unsafe ferris wheel design, a solution that would save them costing more than (1,000*12,000,000=)$12 billion would be rejected and considered not worth the economic cost. If the solution were cheaper, and cost like $500 million, then with good lobbying and a reasonable administration, it could easily become a new regulation.
Generally speaking if 5 anybodies went down like this submersible, you'd expect at least some millions to be spent in recovery missions.
The ~$12 million figure is what the NHTSA is currently using for its purposes.
