If this isn’t peak capitalism
If this isn’t peak capitalism
Their deaths haven’t been confirmed yet. And if they are, the bodies are still warm!
When the Titanic went down 100 years ago the bourgeoisie leveraged their privilege to escape on lifeboats while the working class were locked in the ship to die as it sank to the bottom of the ocean.
Now the bourgeoisie leverage their privilege to lock themselves in a tube and sink to the bottom of the same spot of the ocean, and die there.
Can't make this shit up.
It’s incredibly ironic that a bunch of rich folks spent life changing money to gawk at the sight of a pauper’s grave just to add to the body count.
That would be the same channel that aired the Emoji Movie during the Queen's funeral.
ok but thats actually based
I for one support this
Imagine the EU going to the same lengths to save refugees
The Greek coast guard literally watching as a ship of refugees capsizes
still warm
They are in pretty cold water though...
Yeah I saw something saying if there was power problems, they most likely froze to death long before their oxygen would be used up
That's a somewhat romantic death being able to cuddle up to your partner in a confined space, waiting for either the cold or the great deep to take you. The lamentations and misery of the other families the sound track to the last time you will ever see your partner. There's something oddly beautifully macabre.
It's hot
Hopefully this spectacle encourages more billionaires to get inside more fragile and poorly made tubes...
By the time this airs it will pretty much be confirmed (at best they had enough oxygen to survive until Thursday).
Yup, as of today their air supply is completely depleted.
Rofl. I'm so glad that these rich people get to suffocate. They each paid 200000 to board that coffin!
@SpaceDogs please mark spoilers when appropriate. I'm only on the 3rd episode of this Netflix series.
spoiler
Looks like I was wrong about how they died. Implosion did them in.
@SpaceDogs wow, the fediverse integration with Mastodon is... lacking some features
They must have 2 versions of the Documentary.
I'd like to see the unreleased version
I expect nothing less from Channel 5.
What I don’t get it why are people obsessed with the Titanic, plenty of shipwrecks but why is the Titantic the big one? Is it because it’s so far down or is it because of the ship itself?
@Senseibu @SpaceDogs It's one of the more well known and relatively large and modern era wrecks. Probably also implications of valuables still trapped inside. It was a top of the line ocean liner and there's the added irony that it was specifically advertised as being unsinkable.
Yeah the unsinkable thing is a big part of the mythos. The wreck of the Titanic stands as a testament to humanity's hubris; its creators were so arrogantly confident in the technology they were using that they cut back on basic safety features and precautions. It's also what makes the Titan stand as a testament to humanity's ability to repeat the mistakes of the past even when the consequences of the past are staring you in the face.
Or because the people inside are rich
Yeah I guess it’s a rich persons folly to visit it, tons of titanic enthusiasts who can’t pay can’t visit it though, don’t get it but whatever.
One thing I do think about it maybe the obsession stems from that the wreck location was only discovered in the 1980s, prior to that it was mostly a mystery.
It’s just a ship that sank 112 years ago and didn’t have enough lifeboats, yeah people died but at this point no one on this earth had a direct connection to them.
Not that many lessons were learnt by it either, considering 737max happened.
Probably because of the movie
As someone who has a slightly unhealthy obsession with shipwrecks and ships in general, it's mostly because compared to most ship disasters, the Titanic has much more information publically available and has a greater presence in modern culture, resulting in more books movies and other things being made on it than compared to something like literally any lake freighter accident which is much more horrific and much more unsurvivable than the Titanic. The general public however does have more familiarity to the Titanic because of the type of people who went down on it. The Titanic claimed the lives of people such as John Jacob Astor who was the 12th rich person in the world when he died, if I recall correctly, while the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald , for instance were all working class sailors from the Great Lakes.
Great explanation, thank you for this information!
I got ads to visit the titanic wreck by submarine...
Surprised they weren't ads to visit the wreck of the submarine visiting the wreck of the Titanic
Theu weren't declared dead yet but i guess it will be added on the next tours.