Classic oligarch behaviour = billionaires bitching about spending $10M to take care of their own feces.

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.

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?

Force closure of the bridge, enforce a no fly zone. Cut them the fuck off until they learn.

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.

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.

This is far more symbolic than intended.

Indian Creek has referred to this request as “extortion.”

Strange. I could swear it was called a "free market".

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.

Sure would be a shame if some enterprising soul put together an improvised FAE and introduced the residents to aerosolized exothermic reactions

Oooh, those poor billionaires, being expected to pay for the infrastructure they need for their private island. Outrageous! It's the peons who are supposed to pay!

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

1 island

1 bridge

I'm not condoning violence, I'm condoning demolition.

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.

Every last one of their communities is nothing but a leech and extortion of others. Every single one. Why not use a fraction of his immense wealth to improve the infrastructure?

All these guys deserve to be dragged these guys through the streets until they’re ketchup.

Jeff bezos did not invent nor does he own the idea of buying things on the internet.

Zuckerberg did not invent t nor does he own the idea of people communicating on the internet.

Elon musk is subhuman trash.

Is it American gothic time yet?

Keep them pitchforks pointy!

"Let them eat shit" - Arie Mantoinette

Let them eat poop.

Another pedo island?