Sixty people die when Russia bombs a Ukrainian school and it passes by without much reaction. A sub with 4 people who know the risk of what they’re doing and a billionaire thrill seeker goes missing and it’s news to follow hourly.
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I'm only following to make sure he's really dead. The world could use less billionaires
The world isn't going to get his money. Things aren't suddenly become fair in the world because a billionaire died.
Clearly. One less dragon hoarding untold wealth though
While true, his billions aren’t going to be distributed to the poor, a dead billionaires money goes to a dead billionaires family who probably deserves the money even less but feel owed the money even more than he did.
there could be a hefty inheritance tax. you never know
I get where you are coming from, but there was a lot of coverage of that event back in May.
Also, billionaires should not exist.
Because a bombing in a war isn't unexpected no matter how tragic it is.
Whereas it's rare that a group of multi-millionaires tries to visit the Titanic in a MacGyver-esque hobby submarine.
If only these people didn't have so much money to waste, they'd be safe. Karma?
Well, it is like space exploration. There are scientists, engineers and those who dream to be them. It is just part of humanity that we love going on adventures, that's the same for rich and poor. Only that some are more risk tolerated and some less
This man is not a scientist, engineer, or anyone with any social value whatsoever.
He might fund people who are though (...though I wish we didn't have a system that would need that...)
Well anyone 'could' fund anything, but this guy has made his fortune on private jets, him dying is almost certainly a good thing for the world. Imagine how much damage.
The company that provides these tours uses the money to also perform scientific research on the Titanic.
What 'scientific research' is there that needs to be done on the Titanic in 2023? That's an obvious smokeshow.
In a 2022 interview with CBC News, OceanGate CEO and Founder Stockton Rush said the goal of the repeated subaquatic expeditions is to offer researchers an opportunity to analyze changes surrounding the sunken ship, including the development of coral reefs, decay of the ship’s metal and changes to the ocean’s current.
Can you explain how this counts as news, @hikarulsi@lemmy.world?
This is massively insulting to the rest of the people onboard as well, who are not mentioned in the article from what I saw.
Billionaires dying is news in my book!
tickets were 250k
What the fuck is going on with some of these comments. You can dislike the wealthy but still feel empathy for human beings (maybe) dying an horrific death.
I sure hope the sub is okay.
Oh dear.
Anyway....
I imagine the same thing happened here as with some airliner crashes where the pressure failsafe didn't work and they all passed out and suffocated. They probably didn't even know there was an issue before going unconscious.
So it's not all bad news
A billionaire doing his part on stopping the existence of billionaires would be great. I fear the inheritence, though. Maybe something good will come out of it.
I can only say: I would have not wished that person harm. I would have wished them to return safely. But it does not make me sad to hear that they did not.
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