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For reference, $10M is 1% of $1B. Jeff Bezos is worth $225B, so that would be 1/225 of 1% for him to foot the bill. Considering there are many other multi-billionaires living on that island, that brings our fraction of a single percent of their collective wealth closer and closer to effectively zero.
The greed of billionaires is unfathomable.
The greed of billionaires is unfathomable.
And the insane short-sightedness that is inevitably leading us all to climate collapse. Even when they think they're being smart, they're just idiots.
The island is predominantly populated by other billionaires and is colloquially known as the “Billionaire Bunker.”
Good luck surviving in your bunkers when you don't even manage your own waste. Whether society collapses or the people finally turn on you, the mainland sewage system isn't going to keep working for long. It's yet another example that they don't actually know what the hell they're doing.
It's on the East Coast of Florida. It won't survive much.
They all think by reading Atlas Shrugged they are equipped to live on their own little paradise island from the poors.
I believed in that book too. For like a year in my 20s, then I actually learned how the world works. These dumb asses never did. They learned how to take advantage of people, thats it.
Unfathomable is right. Especially when you consider that his net worth will continue to soar for the foreseeable future.
Classic oligarch behaviour = billionaires bitching about spending $10M to take care of their own feces.
In actual human terms:
"Yes, I'll handle this problem for you, but I'll need $0.000001 to cover the cost of the shared infrastructure."
"Fuck off"
lobbies government to force you to do it for free
This really captures the reality of the situation, and is exactly what pisses me off most about these uber-wealthy: they are cheapskates to their very core and will not give up a penny without being a fucking Karen first
And it’s not like it’s really free. lobbying costs money as well
The way they see it is a gamble: 10 million dollars for a fair deal or pay out 10 million dollars to some crooked lawyers for bribes and the pinkertons to get some dirt and leverage on neighboring community and walk away with extra power and a dumping ground for your piss and shit.
I would bet they spent way less than 10 million. Lobbying in the US seems to generally a great deal compared to the value one receives.
Given musk didn't get his tax credit I'm not so sure. But he did remove all possible oversight from his companies so he can make them less safe, treat his workers worse, and make more fraudulent claims about his products. Its always about power and never cost effectiveness.
It's all about the power and influence.
Didn't know we had so many in one place. Why the fuck can't we get somebody to take it out.
Fucking mass shooters and terrorists bombing and they always target schools and, churches, etc. Why not for once target a place like that?
According to the quote they have taken precautions, the peasantry is not allowed on the island. And to make sure they dont try, they have armed guards and security systems in place.
Didn't say be easy, but I doubt its not has hard as they won't you to believe. All one has to do is either infiltrate the place, or pay a few guards off. Doubt they are getting paid all that well.
From having heard stories from people in the area, it is worse than just guards. Guys in speedboats in full tactical gear, cameras and sonar sensors and all sorts of shit that can tell how close you are, where you are, from a mile out from the shore, and dispatch people there in minutes. It is legitimately a cyberpunk gated community.
What about a drone and just dropping sone bombs onto the place.
If the Ukrainians can do it to russian airbases, it should be doable to the island. But it costs money. And the type of people who have that kind of money see themselves living on that island some day.
Well then us poors should pool our money and start fighting back. Where rhe fuck are the anarchist and far left people at? I'm sure we can do this.
Not paying your enforcers well enough to make sure they are loyal would probably be the dumbest mistake anyone with wealth and/or power can make.
Not saying it cant be done of course, but it seems a bit more involved than climbing over a fence after giving the guard some cigarettes.
Seeing how they are throwing a fit paying such small fund to take care of their own shit, I have no doubt those guards are paid the bare minimum. They live in such another world that they just expect loyalty. I like to know what they are paid? Second just how much they care really about protecting bunch of billionaires that don't give two shits about them.
Roads typically go two ways. They may have one side of the road but eventually the billionaires have to come out the other.
We can easily mine the side just past the guards.
In an effort to fight this grave injustice, the community’s village council subsequently traveled to Florida’s State Capitol to lobby on behalf of the toilet-related concerns. The Times notes that Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, is a member of Indian Creek Village and is on the council.
The lobbying appears to have worked, as the Times reports that a large transportation bill recently approved by the state legislature now includes a “new legal measure prohibiting municipalities from blocking or charging for the installation of certain sewer lines — like the one Indian Creek wants to build, for example.” The bill now only has to be signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis. Charles Burkett, the mayor of Surfside, told the Times that he was blindsided by the legislative effort to resolve the matter.
Sometimes I think we need some pirates to attack the island.
Gonna take a lot of plumbers to set up the new sewer system, curious if any like sporting green.
So multiple billionaires refused to hand out $10m.
Let's say there's two billionaires of them living there, they both have $1b, and they both pay $5m each, which would equal to 0.5% of their wealth.
It would be like someone with $10k giving away $5.
I'm hungry, when do we eat?
Not "giving away". Spending, for services. Which just makes it even more audacious.
Yea, but it'll add up, will all their places/houses/retreats... Can't have that.
The truth about billionaires is they're actually poor. Most of their wealth is tied up in loans or illiquid assets. They can't afford to spend the money unless they can take out another loan against their other loans or implied wealth.
Ha ha ha. Kidding. They're just assholes.
It's only 1-2 miles off the coast. A fixed wing FPV drone could make it there and back with no issue. Or just there with an issue.
Force closure of the bridge, enforce a no fly zone. Cut them the fuck off until they learn.
Make sure as many as possible are home first.
I work in municipal government in a different enclave for the super-rich (I don't get to live here, of course). We aren't 100% billionaire, but we do have several billionaires and 100% are multi-millionares.
We also don't have the ability to test our own sewage and instead contract with a neighboring municipality.
But we pay for it. Anyone connecting has to pay impact fees. So if a sewer treatment plant costs 50 million dollars and a compound uses up 0.1% of its overall capacity had to pay 50 grand up to hook into the system, and any service line expansions required to reach their house must be paid for by the developer.
This is far more symbolic than intended.
Fuck billionaires and fuck their families.
All of them deserve death.
When I was a child, I wanted everything. But by the time I had become an adult, I had realized along the way that having lots of things actually means having lots of burdens and the only way to have lots of stuff without it actually making you unhappy is if you find a way to make your problems everybody else’s problems too, and get them to take care of it for you. This is why I think that we need to cultivate a new social norm where anybody who is perceived as being interested in acquiring great wealth is seen as nothing more than a baby-minded individual that wants to turn the entire world into their mommy because they can’t even wipe their own ass
what kind of name is Indian Creek village?
for me it's the chef's kiss of American imperialistic racism and genocide reference of which everyone used to be proud
Sure would be a shame if some enterprising soul put together an improvised FAE and introduced the residents to aerosolized exothermic reactions
Let them eat poop.
Apparently billionaires do give a shit. A lot of it. An entire island of shit... Trickling down to the next layer down of ~~hell~~ rich people.
Didn’t even bother to grow a handlebar mustache.
I have a working theory that billionaires also don't really understand money and numbers.
People don't understand the difference between a million and a billion until they can visaully see the difference. As someone else pointed out, $5 million is 0.5% of their wealth. It's pocket change for a billionaire. However, billionaires are acting like it's going to break the bank.
Or billionaries just love to hoard their wealth to make their imaginary numbers go up.
It's physiological. They don't like other people dictating to them how to do things.
Soend 100 million yo build your own infrastructure of spend 10 million yo use your neighbor's. Of course your going to call your neighbors extortionists, even though you're the billionaire that has all the money and your neighbors just want to be paid for a service.
This is what the new billionaires are: they think everything should be free for them, because everyone gets everything for free, right? It's how they can pay their serfs so little money because they too get everything for free, so everyone is happy, right?
Right?
It really is how the dotcomites and techbros see the world. They built everything for a song (and having the luck to be born with access to the materials to build their empires), so obviously the entire world that's NOT a corporate entity should be handed to them for free.
They should raise the price for having to deal with this slander.