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Something about tragedies, and something about statistics... But there's also the concern of frequency, [2] occurs more frequent than [1], people generally don

Something about tragedies, and something about statistics... But there's also the concern of frequency, [2] occurs more frequent than [1], people generally don't care about the people at [2] because they are "unimportant", and not prominent in any way. They are background characters on the other side of the world for many, they are not well dressed, they do not perform functions with significant influence on the broader society. Or at least so they are perceived by the general public. They are labelled illegal immigrants, or leeches, or whatever else because people in many places can't fathom being born in a third world or very poor country and doing everything in your power to make it out. Imagine, feeling so low, that you'd give everything, your life even, for a chance, a sliver of chance, at what others are born into.

rrrrrrrrrrrryan 3y ago
The comparison between these two stories is being made (elsewhere on the Internet) because humans were literally still being found and fished out of the Mediterranean, alive, while entire nation states mobilized to try to rescue a few wreckless rich guys who were likely already dead. The point being made is about misallocation of resources, not news coverage. (Novel stories will always grab more attention.)
- civilitty 3y ago
  > while entire nation states mobilized Who? The US Navy/Coast Guard sending an ultra deepwater ROV isn't even comparable to the Greeks actively monitoring the boat enough to take a photo of it before it capsized, let alone is anyone mobilizing "entire nation states"
- umeshunni 3y ago
  > The point being made is about misallocation of resources, not news coverage. The families of the missing rich people have the resources to fund the search. The families of the missing people in the Mediterranean obviously do not.
  - bscphil 3y ago
    Wouldn't that be an example of what the comment you're replying to calls a misallocation of resources?
- sigstoat 3y ago
  > The point being made is about misallocation of resources, not news coverage. what resources? were US and canada supposed to ship deep sea ROVs over to the Mediterranean to help refugees? even if you wanted the US/Canada to help, it wouldn't have been the north atlantic coast guards doing it.
- lm28469 3y ago
  > The point being made is about misallocation of resources Do you have a detailed list of rescue vehicles deployed for each event ?

rrrrrrrrrrrryan 3y ago

The comparison between these two stories is being made (elsewhere on the Internet) because humans were literally still being found and fished out of the Mediterranean, alive, while entire nation states mobilized to try to rescue a few wreckless rich guys who were likely already dead. The point being made is about misallocation of resources, not news coverage. (Novel stories will always grab more attention.)

civilitty 3y ago
> while entire nation states mobilized Who? The US Navy/Coast Guard sending an ultra deepwater ROV isn't even comparable to the Greeks actively monitoring the boat enough to take a photo of it before it capsized, let alone is anyone mobilizing "entire nation states"
umeshunni 3y ago
> The point being made is about misallocation of resources, not news coverage. The families of the missing rich people have the resources to fund the search. The families of the missing people in the Mediterranean obviously do not.
- bscphil 3y ago
  Wouldn't that be an example of what the comment you're replying to calls a misallocation of resources?
sigstoat 3y ago
> The point being made is about misallocation of resources, not news coverage. what resources? were US and canada supposed to ship deep sea ROVs over to the Mediterranean to help refugees? even if you wanted the US/Canada to help, it wouldn't have been the north atlantic coast guards doing it.
lm28469 3y ago
> The point being made is about misallocation of resources Do you have a detailed list of rescue vehicles deployed for each event ?