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.
That’s true but he’s among 4 other people who do have social value.
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.
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.
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.
I’m only following to make sure he’s really dead. The world could use less billionaires
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.
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
It’s because it’s related to the Titanic, and for whatever reason that shipwreck has a grip on western psyches. Dunno why but it just is what it is
Oh dear.
Anyway…
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.
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I sure hope the sub is okay.
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!
