• slaacaa@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Also, everybody is talking and forming opinions on the topic, while it’s just really just a “why would I care” type of news? When hundreds of refugees drown on a sinking ship, it’s a sidenote in a daily news feed, so it’s annoying when the media then blows up this “news” about rich people nobody heard of before.

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      1 year ago

      I think part of it is the location. Off the coast of Greece? Ships pass through all the time, one’s bound to sink. Law of really large numbers.

      But the Titanic? It’s both inaccessible and highly mythologised.

      Sure wealth is a factor but it’s only one of many.