For those who are unaware: A couple billionaires, a pilot, and one of the billionaires’ son are currently stuck inside an extremely tiny sub a couple thousand meters under the sea (inside of the sub with the guys above).
They were supposed to dive down to the titanic, but lost connection about halfway down. They’ve been missing for the past 48 hours, and have 2 days until the oxygen in the sub runs out. Do you think they’ll make it?
I have plenty of criticisms about billionaires, but saying we should just let them die is going too far.
After they’ve milked the rest of humanity to amass all that wealth, your solution is to spend more money on going to get them? They fucked around and found out.
You’re right we should be more proactive
They are presented with the same choice every single day to condemn people to die by hoarding their unfathomable wealth. Anyone of them could singlehandedly end all deaths from polio or TB, but instead every single day they decide that the idea of only being worth $2 million dollars is so horrifying that they’d rather allow the deaths to continue unabated.
Same as the other responses I have given. I think we should make as much of an effort as we can for anyone. It doesn’t mean I have like them, or what they do with their money.