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I respectfully disagree. While the dead boy was a tragedy it only got coverage because a handful of powerful photos made it marketable. Perhaps there is a sim

I respectfully disagree. While the dead boy was a tragedy it only got coverage because a handful of powerful photos made it marketable. Perhaps there is a similar macabre marketability to watching people slowly dying in a cave or in a mine or a sub and that is one thing. For me the disproportionate response of authorities to save rich people in jeopardy compared to poor is the thing I find most disturbing. It could be argued that both chose to accept the danger but one for entertainment the other to escape a life of poverty or persecution. Yet, we will move mountains to rescue the thrill seeker and casually look the other way for the migrant. Knowing now that everyone knew those on the sub were dead from the instant they died yet persisted with the efforts/theater to save them makes me sick. Honestly, I blame myself as well. When the US Coast Guard released a statement that they would not send a ship until after the sub was located, I thought to myself that does not seem right. Of course they already knew the sub was lost.

snehk 3y ago
> Yet, we will move mountains to rescue the thrill seeker and casually look the other way for the migrant. Because one happens all the time and the other doesn't. If rich people get on a submarine after 100 submarines have vanished trying the exact same thing, no one would care. Do you know how many people die on Mt. Everest each year? No one cares and that's pretty much also reserved for rich people due to the high price.
- uberman 3y ago
  I agree that deaths of tourists on Everest no longer get much coverage but I think that has much to do with the typical suddenness of thier deaths. If an American thrill seeker was lost on Everest or slowly suffocating at the summit in a timeline that allowed news coverage it would be a bing thing. I dont know the realities of climbing but it would not surprise me to find that tourists in distress get air lifted out of basecamp 1 while Nepalis don't.

snehk 3y ago

> Yet, we will move mountains to rescue the thrill seeker and casually look the other way for the migrant. Because one happens all the time and the other doesn't. If rich people get on a submarine after 100 submarines have vanished trying the exact same thing, no one would care. Do you know how many people die on Mt. Everest each year? No one cares and that's pretty much also reserved for rich people due to the high price.

uberman 3y ago
I agree that deaths of tourists on Everest no longer get much coverage but I think that has much to do with the typical suddenness of thier deaths. If an American thrill seeker was lost on Everest or slowly suffocating at the summit in a timeline that allowed news coverage it would be a bing thing. I dont know the realities of climbing but it would not surprise me to find that tourists in distress get air lifted out of basecamp 1 while Nepalis don't.