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.
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.
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.
That makes it worse. The event I was talking about was May of 2022. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61369229
As I said, “there was a lot of coverage of that event back in May”. There have also been untold horrors unleashed on Ukraine since then. War is hell. Russia sucks.
My bad, I misread your post and thought you were talking about the 19 innocent people killed by Russian missiles in April of this year. Sorry, my bad.
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
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
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
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.
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.
Oh dear.
Anyway…
So it’s not all bad news
I sure hope the sub is okay.
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A billionaire’s lost? Well, then they’re going to put their best men on it.
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!
Good riddance.
