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.
Migrants create jobs and rich people don’t work ?
If you think any billionaire “worked” for the amount of money they have, you’re sorely mistaken. It’s a byproduct of a flawed economic system, not their “work ethic.” Not to say capitalism doesn’t have it’s benefits, but it’s the system in which capitalism is allowed to operate that produces inequalities like that.
Yes. Considering the net loss in population and the its aging, an influx of new people generates new consumption and opportunities for market growth, and sustains socialized systems like pensions and health care, albeit over a long period.
On the other hand, billionaires hoard disgusting fortunes like fucking dragons to the detriment of society at large. They thus deserve to be slayed, like we would dragons.
Did you know some of the original guillotines already exist?
While I would love their wealth to be redistributed, execution is something I would never support for any crime.
Ok maybe we just ask them kindly
Not what I meant. If they break the law, they should be put through the legal system and actually be treated like any criminal instead of getting special privileges. What I meant is that I am against executions in general; even mass murderers shouldn’t be executed once they are in custody of the state, they should be in prison for as long as needed to keep them away from society.
You don’t need to kill them, you just need to remove the money and BAM, no more billionaires, slayed the dragon.
Perfect; I am 100% with you on this one.
So the existence of billionaires is not a problem as long as they aren’t criminals?
It is a problem, and their wealth needs to be redistributed regardless, but the rule of law is important. If a billionaire has done zero crimes, they should still not be allowed to keep the majority of their wealth, but they shouldn’t be imprisoned if they hadn’t broken the law.
It’s pretty cool that the law is definitely not rigged in favor of the rich
Tbh rich people do create jobs and migrants take those jobs usually
The rich can only “create jobs” because we have an economic and political system that skews reward toward investment rather than labor. Both are important, but let’s not pretend that anyone can earn a billions without excessive wage theft from the people doing the actual labor.
It’s just supply and demand we have very few entrepreneurs while a tone of uneducated workers, obviously they are going to get paid less, they took 0 risks investment side
Funny how the ceo couldn’t assume and financial risk towards better safety measures, eh?
Like when his engineers recommended them and got shitcanned for it.
Achieving safety goals is for the poors.
I up voted you because you aren’t wrong. At least in the sense of sweat shops. May not be good jobs, but they do technically count as jobs.
Not only sweat shops, if there is a little of human rights they can create pretty good working conditions and with competition salary rise up
Overheard:
“They paid for the full Titanic experience and that’s what they got. What’s the problem?”
Full experience? I see no damn ice berg anywhere! I’d want my money back.
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
How many times do you hear about a submarine going missing though?
I think I here more about submarines being found where there weren’t supposed to be any.
Have you tried live streaming your drowning? Maybe that would get more attention from folks. Gotta pull yourself up by them booty straps!
@snipe_at that’s no reason to spend my tax money on it.
Oh no, 1% of my paycheck is going toward efforts to save lives
@DudePluto I’m not sure where you live, but in my part of the world approx. 50% of my income goes to taxes, either directly (sales tax, income tax, social security tax, medicare tax, property tax) or indirectly (taxes paid by people who make the things I buy that increases the overall cost of the things I buy). If some billionaire is stuck in a sub, whoever wants him alive can pay for it.
I don’t care how much you pay in taxes. If you calculated what percentage of your actual income went to trying to save people (specifically in this instance) the number would be infinitesimal. And you better believe that if this incident is found to be the result of corporate negligence there will be lawsuits and more.
The fact that people turn legitimate anger and frustration from class warfare into hatred and indifference toward the suffering of fellow human beings is fucking disgusting. And I guarantee if you were in their boat and needed rescuing you’d spit in the direction of everyone holding their hands out for you to pay them to save you
indifference toward the suffering of fellow human beings
Sine qua non for being a billionaire
I am certainly in agreement that billionaires are unhealthy for society and have no reason to exist. Their wealth should be redistributed. But I will not let my ideology eclipse my humanity. Nor should anyone.
How much do you pay for US coast guard? I think people are moaning about nothing on this.
@ImFresh3x more than 0 is more than I want to pay.
Then don’t, leave the country that steals from you
You don’t. You aren’t paying anything. Because you don’t pay for USGC. And we’re not getting rid of the coast guard. Move somewhere where essential governance doesn’t exist. Some libertarian utopia without building codes and roads. And die from eating toxic food.
But another 1% is too much for migrants? Contradictory logic.
I’m fine with my tax dollars going to rescuing both. It would be a much better use of my money than more bombs
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.
The reality is much more complex than that.
@Banana no, it’s not.
Then that mean you don’t have enough geopolitical knowledge and if you want get an more advanced opinions about that subject you should not only read and learn about humanitary knowledge (all live matter) but also those who don’t have the same opinion. I hope you will be able to understand and not be someone who is unable to understand because most people’s prefer get use to general opinion and what the media tell them (manipulate) to think with the objective to separate them in order to manipulate them more simply.
Edit : it’s literally the case in every nation.
… Of course it is? We have things like taxation and social safety nets that allow a society to function. Never mind the simple fact that some places are stressed for resources as it is. That’s not to say it can’t be done better, but it’s naive to think it’s “simple”. Never mind that simple doesn’t necessarily mean easy…
We have things like taxation due to capitalism’s inability to create a just society.
There, I fixed it for ya 😉
I’m having a difficult time thinking of any form of society where people don’t pool at least some portion of their surplus to help the group as a whole (and lift those up who have a deficit). Are you saying that shouldn’t be a thing?
Yes it is, where will we house these migrants?
@Ronno @Banana this sounds very similar to “who will pick the cotton?” that was “just asking questions” as to why slavery should remain legal in the southern united states in the 19th century. It’s the right thing to do. One’s individual rights does not force obligations on the other. A freed market would provide.
IMO, those are very different situations, with slavery their freedom was taken. Most of the migrants (not refugees) are free, they are simply in search for a better life. Which is understandable, don’t get me wrong. But the picture that is painted is too bright, people hop on a boat to “paradise” and are promised a life of riches. The reality is, this is not the situation they will find themselves in. Even if we were to allow them into the country, they would still live poor lives. Sure some will succeed, but most of them don’t have the foundational knowledge/skills/command of the language of the country to get a job and find a place to live.
Meanwhile, looking at my own country The Netherlands, we see that natives are also struggling for housing. My generation is basically fucked, young families cannot buy nor rent a home to start their family in. This will impact The Netherlands for years/decades to come, it will be reflected in birth rate and future workforce. Allowing other people in the country now would be catastrophic.
On the other hand, recently there was an article about an approach by French farmers which I like. They sourced Moroccan workers, that could work in France for a couple months (IIRC max stay was 3 months), during this time, the workers would receive fair pay. After the work permit ends, the workers have to go back to Morocco. Then they are only allowed to go back to work in France after a period of time, with a new workers permit.
The key benefit is that workers bring the money back home, benefitting Morocco financially, and France with workforce. Most of this work by the farmers is seasonal anyway.
How are you going to continue to enforce gun control in your country if there are zero borders?
@gun open migration doesn’t require the elimination of borders. There is a border between Germany & France, but that doesn’t mean they have to stop people from crossing it. It still exists, laws are different, etc.
If you don’t stop people from crossing it, how do you check what they are carrying? How do you prevent guns from moving across a border in that case?
@gun I don’t think we should.
@cmdr_nova lemmy.ml is certianly anti-facist, but to my knowledge is not anti-gun
@fu way to focus on exactly what I wasn’t talking about
@cmdr_nova I apologize, I had thought you were associating firearm freedom with fascism. Would you mind sharing with me what you were speaking of, as I clearly missed the point.
Right, but if you want to stop school shootings with gun control and are also left wing enough to want zero borders, how will gun control be possible if crazies can just go and get their guns from places where its legal to get them. Am I fascist for pointing out an obvious contradiction?
WTF said anything about wanting gun control?
I did. It’s just a random example to argue what @Banana@feddit.it was saying about reality being more complicated.
@gun i don’t enforce gun control laws now. As far as those that do…well…ACAB.
Secondly, the harsh reality is that most migrants try to enter a country illegally
Great. Doesn’t mean you get to just outright murder them.
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.
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.
If you go up a mountain to poke tigers, and a tiger shockingly eats you, should society drop everything and race up the mountain to find your pieces? It’s disingenuous to equate this to the miners.
@HelloImFrank having spent 4 years in the U.S. Coast Guard, I can tell you that you are incorrect.
Cool, please tell us more how you refused to save people based on their income.
@archon i refused to do shit.
Well, you know. In this particular case the Coastal Guard did not do their job. That’s what gets the uproar.
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.
Non-citizen lives don’t matter? Do you ever check someone’s passport before saving them from drowning? Ridiculous.
Obviously not, but as a government body that’s what the criteria is
This isn’t true. This is only a recent politicized phenomena. It never used to happen where people would excuse letting migrants drown. And I highly doubt any government rescue team checks your passport before dumping you back in the water. This only happens because of how highly politicized this issue is.
You’re right actually, I can’t find a source that says governments have a duty to protect their citizens, so by extension, there’s no argument to only use your forces to protect citizens and not non-citizens
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.
I think it also has to do with the fact they’re illegally crossing. If an American or a Filipino got lost in Europe they’d still search for them. Hell, every year here in Croatia we have to rescue Czechs who climb up mountains in flip flops.
I guess the reason is that what they’re doing is illegal, and you don’t have enough resources to track and save every single migrant ship.
I mean, I don’t remember hearing Frontex or national coast guards completely ignoring sinking ships, they often try to save them from what I know, they just don’t have as many resources.But I do think rescue capabilities could be improved. I don’t know how hard it is, but I feel like with modern technology, setting up radar combined with satellite imagery shouldn’t be that hard. Ships stick out of the water a lot, so tracking the ships that are out of place shouldn’t be too hard.
Regarding immigration, once I believed we should take in all refugees, but now I’ve come to realise that it’s more complicated. Untill we figure out how to properly assimilate them into society, it will only lead to problems and disappointment on both sides. If immigrants huddle up into segregated communities they won’t assimilate, they’ll be poor, and that’s the source of all conflict. I don’t believe they’re any different from us, nor that their cultures are completely incompatible, but if they become segregated they will be ostracized from society, they’ll be poor and resent society for shunning them. They came to this land from so far away, hearing promises of how great it is, and then they live worse than they did back home. That leads to crime, more resentment and racism, leading to them having an even harder time. It’s a brutal cycle.
I think it also has to do with the fact they’re illegally crossing
You do realize what these billionaires were doing was illegal too? It is riddled with safety and security violations, but were only able to bypass it because they did it entirely on their own.
But hey, the lives of hundreds of thousands does not matter if the some random corrupt legislator did not create a legal path for them to immigrate. Totally makes sense.
I don’t remember hearing Frontex or national coast guards completely ignoring sinking ships
Are you serious? Or do you mean to say you did not hear about them ignoring ships since they are usually watching them drowning or even actively trying to sink them?
They came to this land from so far away, hearing promises of how great it is, and then they live worse than they did back home.
Ahh, so you are just helping them by denying basic human rights of seeking for asylum and a better life. That’s too kind of you.
If an American or a Filipino got lost in Europe they’d still search for them.
American, sure. Filipino? Hard doubt. Source?
And the fact that these responses are from two completely different countries and continents. Unless you’re talking about the media response, which OP has specifically said he’s not. He’s more concerned about having to pay taxes.
If you’re not talking about media response then the whole conversation is pointless. It’s not “hypocrisy” that Canada and the US responded differently from Greece to a crisis next to their waters
Are you asserting that the US wouldn’t do this, or is this just for deflection’s sake?
Neither. I’m insisting on intellectual honesty by asking how the US and Canada’s response to a missing sub off their own waters is relevant to the Greek response to missing migrants off theirs.
Would you like some examples of the US treatment of migrants from Mexico? I thought you’d be aware.
The difference is more to do with whether they’re immigrants or natives.
So migrant lives not mattering to people like you is true. Good to know you at least confirm that part of the meme. Disgusting.
Hold on a moment. They didn’t say that they didn’t care about the lives. They were stating the viewpoint of the governments that send out the S&R.
They’re providing that as justification.
If they meant it as “ahh I hate the governments who ____” then I sincerely withdraw my statement and apologize for misunderstanding. But they clearly did not mean that.
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
Think about it. If we just imprisoned all rich people, they didn’t have to be rescued from their shitty, expensive vacation trips.
That’s just the start my dude. Once we disregard insignificant values like human rights and personal freedom, solving the issue of other people making problematic choices becomes trivial.
Imagine all the crime we would prevent if we just locked up anyone who earns less than say 50k euros.
i kinda wish the rich people had to deal with the pooping situation
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.
average citizen’s life
That’s the problem, we allow our governments to treat people differently based on where they happen to have been born.
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.
Those billionaires are obviously focused on taking as much money as possible for themselves, so… I don’t feel a lot of sympathy for them. In fact, maybe it’s a fitting end that all their money can’t save them.
That site seems broken.
I am impressed that he got these people to pay him for a ride in his janky submarine. I bet that each „ticket“ costs more than the whole submarine.
I heard it was VERY expensive too.
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.
Using a controller is reasonable. Not having redundancy would be insane. This article suggests they hand plenty of redundancy for surfacing.
"The Logitech F710 gamepad is a third-party wireless controller that can be used to play PC games.
It is one of the cheaper and least reliable controllers currently on the market, and suffers from a number of issues.
Numerous reviews on Amazon claim that it often suffers from connectivity issues, where the controller refuses to connect wirelessly".
https://www.the-sun.com/tech/8411660/titan-video-game-controller-titanic-missing/amp/
Idk if the same trustworthiness applies to the specific controller that was allegedly used
Using a controller to steer a sub is normal.
Xbox controller is not the problem. The most expensive part of the whole thing is what failed.
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.
Or maybe it has to do more with the region in which they’re lost. The USCG is typically very good about aiding anyone within their AOR, no matter their socioeconomic class. This should be framed more as “why isn’t Europe/Greece doing their jobs” than “why are the USCG/Canada actually doing their jobs”.
Problem is the choices are;
A) seeing migrants die en masse makes people feel bad and helpless and weak.
B) Allowing people to say “stupid dumbass billionaires” makes people feel like they are better than some stupid dumbass billionaires.
It was always going to be B. Most times the media just goes where we demand it goes. If you want to complain about why the media is so shit -blame all of us.
@Col3814444 for me its certainly not about media, it’s about government spending.
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