Daniel JalkutI've seen a lot of snark about the death of "rich people" not mattering, or that they deserved it for engaging in such frivolity. Maybe it's because I'm kinda rich, but I don't agree with that reasoning.
I think that frivolity is good, and that it's much better for rich people to spend their money than to horde it. Now, we can quibble about whether exploring the Titanic is as useful a frivolity as, say, spending money at a fancy restaurant, but they're at least in the same broad category.
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Buck@danielpunkass I think the snark would be less if we were taxing really rich people much more and also got back to big money out of politics (Citizens United reversal). Ultimately just having really rich people spend more doesn't have nearly the impact and trickle down benefit to society of simply taxing them more. These weren't just sort of rich people, but fantastically well off people. The brazenness of the CEO in his disregard for safety critiques doesn't help one bit either.