I think it's naturally easier for us to point fingers at people who are far richer than we can ever hope to be, and talk about them as if they are furniture. Elon Musk, Jeff Bazos, Bill Gates, etc. On the one hand it is interesting sociologically. The people on the sub are not no name nobodies like poor people crossing the Mediterranean by the hundreds. Maybe it's easier mentally to deal with it, to focus on it. I am not sure. Just reading the responses, jokes, etc, I understand it. They played with fire. You get burned. Rich people doing things we can't imagine.
I wonder if this isn't similar psychologically to people with Bill Gates conspiracies. It's outside the range of what we normal people can fathom. We then come up with our own explanations, rational or outlandish.
Exploration has always been the pursuit of the rich. I understand the consternation. At the same time, maybe it's just me, I think of the families on shore. Their loved ones missing. I've been there but it wasn't plastered on social media. It wasn't over the news. But family went missing, and the consequences are the same. Lost loved ones.
I just think if the lose of the people especially ri those closest. The Ukraine. Russians who we agree with or not doing things we can't fathom, condone or understand, climbers in Everest. The circumstances are different, but the lose of people regardless of race, financial situation, economic or political beliefs, lose in general, is sad. Maybe I'm out to lunch. I don't know. Just thinking of them, of me, of you. Our family could be going through the same situation regardless of circumstance.
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