Billionaire island where Bezos lives lobbies state gov to flush its poop down neighbor town’s pipes
Billionaire island where Bezos lives lobbies state gov to flush its poop down neighbor town’s pipes
A recent skirmish over the 1 percent's feces is currently being worked out by the Florida state legislature.
A recent skirmish over the 1 percent's feces is currently being worked out by the Florida state legislature.
One of the places that Jeff Bezos lives is a man-made island off the coast of Florida called Indian Creek Village. The island is predominantly populated by other billionaires and is colloquially known as the “Billionaire Bunker.” In fact, if you’re not a billionaire, it’s quite difficult to get in. The bridge from the mainland to the island is closed to the public and protected by armed guards and a sophisticated security system.
However, if the island is almost entirely cut off from the rest of humanity, the island’s inhabitants still seem intent on sharing one thing with members of the outside world: their piss and shit.
Indian Creek doesn’t have the underground infrastructure to deal with its own poop, so the solution it came up with was to funnel it through Surfside into a wider regional sewage system. Unfortunately, Surfside didn’t want the poop unless Indian Creek was willing to contribute $10 million to the community for future sewer system improvements. Indian Creek has referred to this request as “extortion.”
Sounds like the perfect location for a couple dozen daisy cutters.
For reference, $10M is 1% of $1B. Jeff Bezos is worth $225B, so that would be 1/225 of 1% for him to foot the bill. Considering there are many other multi-billionaires living on that island, that brings our fraction of a single percent of their collective wealth closer and closer to effectively zero.
The greed of billionaires is unfathomable.
And that’s just him footing the bill. I’m assuming other billionaires on the island would help cover the cost. So essentially it would cost him couch change to just make it go away. Yep sounds about right.
1/225 of 1% for him to foot the bill.
You don't become a billionaire by picking up your own tab.
The greed of billionaires is unfathomable.
And the insane short-sightedness that is inevitably leading us all to climate collapse. Even when they think they're being smart, they're just idiots.
The island is predominantly populated by other billionaires and is colloquially known as the “Billionaire Bunker.”
Good luck surviving in your bunkers when you don't even manage your own waste. Whether society collapses or the people finally turn on you, the mainland sewage system isn't going to keep working for long. It's yet another example that they don't actually know what the hell they're doing.
It's on the East Coast of Florida. It won't survive much.
They all think by reading Atlas Shrugged they are equipped to live on their own little paradise island from the poors.
I believed in that book too. For like a year in my 20s, then I actually learned how the world works. These dumb asses never did. They learned how to take advantage of people, thats it.
Unfathomable is right. Especially when you consider that his net worth will continue to soar for the foreseeable future.
Classic oligarch behaviour = billionaires bitching about spending $10M to take care of their own feces.
In actual human terms:
"Yes, I'll handle this problem for you, but I'll need $0.000001 to cover the cost of the shared infrastructure."
"Fuck off"
lobbies government to force you to do it for free
In an effort to fight this grave injustice, the community’s village council subsequently traveled to Florida’s State Capitol to lobby on behalf of the toilet-related concerns. The Times notes that Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, is a member of Indian Creek Village and is on the council.
The lobbying appears to have worked, as the Times reports that a large transportation bill recently approved by the state legislature now includes a “new legal measure prohibiting municipalities from blocking or charging for the installation of certain sewer lines — like the one Indian Creek wants to build, for example.” The bill now only has to be signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis. Charles Burkett, the mayor of Surfside, told the Times that he was blindsided by the legislative effort to resolve the matter.
Sometimes I think we need some pirates to attack the island.
Gonna take a lot of plumbers to set up the new sewer system, curious if any like sporting green.
So multiple billionaires refused to hand out $10m.
Let's say there's two billionaires of them living there, they both have $1b, and they both pay $5m each, which would equal to 0.5% of their wealth.
It would be like someone with $10k giving away $5.
I'm hungry, when do we eat?
Not "giving away". Spending, for services. Which just makes it even more audacious.
Yea, but it'll add up, will all their places/houses/retreats... Can't have that.
It's only 1-2 miles off the coast. A fixed wing FPV drone could make it there and back with no issue. Or just there with an issue.
I work in municipal government in a different enclave for the super-rich (I don't get to live here, of course). We aren't 100% billionaire, but we do have several billionaires and 100% are multi-millionares.
We also don't have the ability to test our own sewage and instead contract with a neighboring municipality.
But we pay for it. Anyone connecting has to pay impact fees. So if a sewer treatment plant costs 50 million dollars and a compound uses up 0.1% of its overall capacity had to pay 50 grand up to hook into the system, and any service line expansions required to reach their house must be paid for by the developer.
This is far more symbolic than intended.
what kind of name is Indian Creek village?
for me it's the chef's kiss of American imperialistic racism and genocide reference of which everyone used to be proud
Just looked, there's a Normandy shores just below it. I expect manmade.
When I was a child, I wanted everything. But by the time I had become an adult, I had realized along the way that having lots of things actually means having lots of burdens and the only way to have lots of stuff without it actually making you unhappy is if you find a way to make your problems everybody else’s problems too, and get them to take care of it for you. This is why I think that we need to cultivate a new social norm where anybody who is perceived as being interested in acquiring great wealth is seen as nothing more than a baby-minded individual that wants to turn the entire world into their mommy because they can’t even wipe their own ass
Sure would be a shame if some enterprising soul put together an improvised FAE and introduced the residents to aerosolized exothermic reactions
Kinda roll's off the tongue, don't it?
Another pedo island?
Guaranteed
Let them eat poop.
Apparently billionaires do give a shit. A lot of it. An entire island of shit... Trickling down to the next layer down of
hellrich people.Didn’t even bother to grow a handlebar mustache.
I have a working theory that billionaires also don't really understand money and numbers.
People don't understand the difference between a million and a billion until they can visaully see the difference. As someone else pointed out, $5 million is 0.5% of their wealth. It's pocket change for a billionaire. However, billionaires are acting like it's going to break the bank.
Or billionaries just love to hoard their wealth to make their imaginary numbers go up.
It's physiological. They don't like other people dictating to them how to do things.
They should raise the price for having to deal with this slander.
Bezos looks like a greasy lubed butt plug
c/NotTheOnion
Poopshitters rise up
More like shit creek village