To be blunt, I hold the people wanting to take a submarine to the wreck of the Titanic in the same contempt as I hold those wanting to climb Everest: wreckless irresponsible thrill seekers whose hubris causes others to suffer from it. Die doing either, you’re neither hero nor victim, just another fool taking unnecessary risks to pretend to be anything other than yet another tourist.
That said, if I was a billionaire and I was so egocentric and vain as to want to visit the Titanic, I still would not pay 250,000 dollars to be strapped in a short metal dildo only openable from the outside and steered over bluetooth by a dodgy Logitech fake X-box controller. Spent a quarter of a million bucks to die in something I couldn’t stretch my legs out in, having my last piss be in a bucket shared with four other billionaires, you wouldn’t catch me doing that.
If you still believed in the myth of the hypercompetent self made billionaire this surely drives the nail in it. That much money and you don’t have the sense to demand your submersible is built from better stuff than can be found off the selves at Target?
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