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Teen son of Pakistani billionaire who died on Titanic sub ‘didn’t want to go on trip’ (www.independent.co.uk)
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Azmeh Dawood told NBC News that her nephew only agreed to go on the expedition because it was important to his father

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

...the negative impact of what it takes to accumulate that sort of wealth override the casual sympathy for the submarine situation.

Long way about it, those in the submarine represent why there's a refugee situation.

This statement very well sums up where my sympathies lie on the subject. A "philanthropist billionaire" is an oxymoron: nobody fairly accumulated a billion dollars without exploiting somebody else for it - their time, their labor, their resources.

Those billions could materially improve the lives of tens of thousands of people. If they distributed that wealth equitably, philanthropically, they would no longer be billionaires.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

the migrants deaths are an indirect product of the billionaires hoarding of resources.

neither should have happened. people should've have that level of wealth and if it was more properly redistributed it's likely that the migrants would not be so starving and penniless.