The Titan submarine disappeared in the Atlantic reproduction
For the past few days, the world has followed the drama of the subjects, who paid around a million reais to spend a few hours at the bottom of the sea, crammed into an uncertified can, controlled by a video game joystick.
The company owner, who was also on the submersible, said in interviews that “security was a waste”. It kept its apparatus outside existing regulations, claiming the rules were “indecently safe” and stifled “innovation”.
Instead, he required passengers to sign a liability waiver.
Attempting to rescue the billionaires mobilized ships, planes and underwater robots that searched an area of more than 25,000 km². A contraption provided by government organizations that the submersible owner and his passengers hate and paid for by the taxpayer.
The effort was infinitely greater than in other humanitarian situations, even if the logistics were much simpler. But then the lives of immigrants are at risk, not those of business tycoons.
Immigrants risk their lives out of desperation. And the billionaires? Surely out of boredom or out of competition with one another, leading to a flaunting of the ability to squander vast amounts of money on something utterly pointless and pointless. Anyone who takes a private jet because even first class is too uncomfortable for them on commercial flights decides to sit in a canister for eight hours, presumably to see the wreckage of the Titanic through a small window that looks more like a peephole. And knowing that he risked his life to do it.
Empty lives, miserable lives. Why is it so difficult to empathize with them? Submarino is controlled by a video game controller. Photo: reproduction
There’s no shortage of memes and jokes about the case. The old notion that risking one’s life for stupidity is a form of natural selection has often surfaced.
But the main reason that makes it so difficult to be moved by the fate of billionaires is that they don’t evoke those kinds of emotions.
Big corporations and the super rich who control them constantly threaten our lives. If it’s profitable, they’re willing to override safety standards, use diseaseinducing raw materials, pollute the planet to the point of threat, evade taxes, plunder workers to death, and humiliate those who have no money. They are not accountable to anyone and make fun of everyone with their extravagances.
It’s not even today. When news of the sinking of the Titanic—whose wreckage was the target of the diving expedition and eventually imploded—reached the black ghettos of the United States, people took to the streets to cheer. The rich whites who died were the same who despised their daily suffering.
It’s hard to empathize with people like that. After all, we’re all human, no matter how hard they try to dehumanize us.
Join our WhatsApp group by clicking this link
Join our Telegram channel, click on this link
Subscribe for updates. Subscribe for updates