With oxygen supplies dwindling - under 24 hours’ worth remains - the next few hours are critical.

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        There was that one guy who built his own rocket and died in the desert. That kind of qualifies. Also the existence of the running of the bulls and the cheese wheel race. Those are reported like “look at those idiots. Of course they got hurt.”

        That’s the kind of journalistic lens I’m looking for when taking about dopes that signed a haunted house style waiver to add to the Titanic’s body count.

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        Poor people don’t have access to education or educated advisors, as much as people who could solve poverty for their whole nation, if they chose.

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        It is probably an indirect criticism of the “just make better decisions and you’ll be rich” mentality that generally tries to put rich people on a pedestal for being geniuses who ‘figured it out’ and ‘read between the lines’ to get on top

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            if you’re saying that I’m engaging in a strawman, I am deriving at this based off of OP, which is before you entered the conversation, and noone was assigning this opinion to you, but it’s definitely a thing I’ve encountered in the wilds myself, so I felt I could see what OP meant with their message

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        Sure, everyone does dumb shit. But rich people have the money, time and opportunity to do dumber shit on a bigger scale. When they get in trouble they have the infrastructure to bail them out.

        I’m not going to cry a tear for rich people who bolted themselves into a death tube and have have caused a multimillion dollar rescue effort to be launched in their behalf.

        When poor people do dumb shit they’re left to die in obscurity without any help. The news is full of stories about orcas destroying mega yachts, CEOs sabotaging their own companies and billionaires launching stupid new tech ventures. I’d enjoy watching them set their money on fire if it weren’t for the harm they’re causing everyone else.

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          If you can’t feel bad about other humans dying a terrible death then I don’t think I have anything to gain from your world view. Other than a reason to be a better human so I can offset the negativity your mentality brings to society.

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            Thousands of people die terrible deaths everyday for reasons that they didn’t directly and incompetently place themselves into. I feel bad for them. I feel as bad for the people in the sub as I do for tourists in Yellowstone that get stomped because they tried to hug a bison.