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I think you're reaching a bit. I'm not seeing very many people "celebrating their death". I am seeing people making fun of the complete absurdity of the situat
by crote 3y ago
I think you're reaching a bit.
I'm not seeing very many people "celebrating their death". I am seeing people making fun of the complete absurdity of the situation: a couple of billionaires are spending the equivalent of two Starbucks coffees to visit a mass grave in an untested discount submarine known to have safety issues, fully aware that it could mean their death and just... not caring?
When you are a minimum wage worker, seeing people spend several years' wages on something as silly as this, it just feels like you are living in a completely different reality. It is so absurd that I wouldn't have believed it if it was written in a science-fiction book. It is so detached from normal life, it just doesn't feel real.
> I always thought it was sort of a joke when people said "eat the rich"
It is both a joke, and not a joke. Some people are literally starving, and wealth inequality is worse than it was during the French Revolution. I don't know anyone who wants to literally "eat the rich", but it is getting increasingly obvious that the status quo isn't sustainable either.
> you would have killed them yourself if there was no consequence
No, that's not how it works. Very few people actively want other humans to die, but that doesn't mean they will mourn the death of every single stranger either.
- mrguyorama 3y ago>fully aware that it could mean their death and just... not caring? The reality is that these people have ZERO proper understanding of risk, because they've never actually been allowed to fail in life, so they regularly make stupid choices and dumb mistakes that normal people with normal experience would not, because many normal people have functioning risk management. Then also remember that "for some reason" these kind of people run everything.
- jayGlow 3y agonormal people who are allowed to fail die doing stupid things all the time. people die climbing or skydiving or any other number of ways. the fact is people are just really bad at risk assessment.
- marssaxman 3y agoMore likely they just have a different value system from yours. Some people see life more as a resource to be used than a treasure to be protected. For some people boredom is a fate worse than death. Some people value intensity of experience over duration of existence; a higher risk of injury or death is acceptable in service of a more satisfying life.