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Billionaire among the missing as tourist submersible exploring Titanic wreck disappears (www.smh.com.au)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well, it is like space exploration. There are scientists, engineers and those who dream to be them. It is just part of humanity that we love going on adventures, that's the same for rich and poor. Only that some are more risk tolerated and some less

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This man is not a scientist, engineer, or anyone with any social value whatsoever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He might fund people who are though (...though I wish we didn't have a system that would need that...)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Well anyone 'could' fund anything, but this guy has made his fortune on private jets, him dying is almost certainly a good thing for the world. Imagine how much damage.