Billionaire among the missing as tourist submersible exploring Titanic wreck disappears (www.smh.com.au)

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[-] 133arc585@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] mashbooq@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

So it's not all bad news

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Oh dear.

Anyway....

[-] Jurbl@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

I'm only following to make sure he's really dead. The world could use less billionaires

[-] Oobleckonyoface@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] CatBookCat@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

there could be a hefty inheritance tax. you never know

[-] Solumbran@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

If only these people didn't have so much money to waste, they'd be safe. Karma?

[-] hikarulsi@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] RedMarsRepublic@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago

This man is not a scientist, engineer, or anyone with any social value whatsoever.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

He might fund people who are though (...though I wish we didn't have a system that would need that...)

[-] RedMarsRepublic@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago

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.