Think about it. If we just imprisoned all rich people, they didn't have to be rescued from their shitty, expensive vacation trips.
The US federal government values the average citizen's life at something like ~$12 million. This is mostly for policy like if 1,000 people a year die from something, say an unsafe ferris wheel design, a solution that would save them costing more than (1,000*12,000,000=)$12 billion would be rejected and considered not worth the economic cost. If the solution were cheaper, and cost like $500 million, then with good lobbying and a reasonable administration, it could easily become a new regulation.
Generally speaking if 5 anybodies went down like this submersible, you'd expect at least some millions to be spent in recovery missions.
The ~$12 million figure is what the NHTSA is currently using for its purposes.
average citizen's life
That's the problem, we allow our governments to treat people differently based on where they happen to have been born.
what happend to the 5 rich men?
Problem is the choices are;
A) seeing migrants die en masse makes people feel bad and helpless and weak.
B) Allowing people to say “stupid dumbass billionaires” makes people feel like they are better than some stupid dumbass billionaires.
It was always going to be B. Most times the media just goes where we demand it goes. If you want to complain about why the media is so shit -blame all of us.
oof
Maybe they're afraid of the families of the rich suing them /shrug
Since the CEO went down with his s̶h̶i̶p̶ sub, the lawyers will have to get creative.
The passengers signed a waiver to confirm their knowledge that the submarine is an "experimental" vessel "that has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body, and could result in physical injury, disability, emotional trauma or death."
https://web.archive.org/web/20230619230915/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65934887
