"So the billionaires’ families are gonna get billed for all of this like the time my family got billed for my ambulance ride, right? Right?"

No you’re getting billed for this too

What really makes me angry is that media is full of some millionaires drowning in a rattle can steered with a 30$ Logitech controller while there are 100s of people drowning in the Mediterranean Sea every week because they are illegally pushed back by authorities and media is silent about it...

It will probably be the company that owns the sub that get's billed. Given that the founder and CEO of the company was the pilot of the sub the company will probably declare bankruptcy.

Of course not. No consequences for the billionaires. Instead, we will pay.

In my state we have a stupid motorist law that bills the driver if the drive into a flooded wash and need to get rescued. This typw of law should apply. Accidents are Accidents. But if you willfully ignore safety regulations and signage you get the bill.

Where I live if you fall and injure yourself on an established hiking/climbing route, in season, you will be rescued for free (regular ambulance rides are free anyway).

If you climb or hike off track, out of season you might be charged for a helicopter ride or mountain rescue. As you can imagine it's not cheap.

Remeber that time a couple wanted to sail around the world, bought a boat but didn't know how to sail rally, took their newborn on it, then had to get rescued at sea? People were pissed about the cost of that rescue, calling the couple dumb and entitled and whatnot. I think they had to pay some of the rescue cost back. Personally I don't know that I'm wild about charging people for rescues, it's hard to draw a line between legitimate adventure travel, say hiking in a national park, and a reckless stunt.

If this is referring to the submarine rescue, generally-speaking, rescue efforts by the US Coast Guard or the Park Service or the like are paid for by the government. Interestingly, at least for the Park Service, this is the opposite of the situation with Europe, where it's common to have rescue insurance if one is heading out into the wilderness hiking or whatnot. This is the reverse of the situation with medical services.

The coast guard has never charged for search and rescue. This was not an ambulance ride.

Similar kind of stuff happens all the time, where public institutions bear the cost and consequences of private enterprises. Good example of a not too dissimilar situation was Memorial Hospital during Katrina, where instead of sending private helicopters and rescue, the firm that owned the hospital opted to wait for "free" US government rescue.

Privatize the profits, but socialize the losses.

Nah, that sort of shit is for plebs.

I would have expected that the owner of the submarine pieces would be footing the bill for this. After all, he is at the head of this fuck-up.

The company will get billed. Yes.

I wonder to what extent the massive imbalance in news coverage was simply super wealthy families handing journalists pre-written pieces so that laziness would dictate this result (rather than the journalists doing this naturally, although laziness is natural enough I guess).

Oh this is when their lawyers turn around and point out they were doing some kind of scientific “research” on behalf of someone’s pet charity organization so it’s all exempt and they pay zero.

Tbf if its proven the titan wasn't up to regulation it should 100% be the company that build the sub that needs to be held accountable. If not the bill should go to whatever got the rescue people involved. Then the insurance that covered such exotic and dangerous ride. (Just like i had insurance when i went to see the pyramids). If its not any above the above than it means the passengers took 100% responsibility and the families should pay up.

Hundereds of immigrants died this week on a ship, no one gave a fuck. Not a penny spend.

I am hoping someone more informed then me can do a comparison how long we could provide shelter and food to those immigrants with that amount of spend money. The internet cant enforce fair economic treatment between the classes but we can call out the hypocrisy.

I wish. But what I know of the current affair of things, I can only hypothesize two outcomes:

1. The benefit after the costs of potential rescue, and now the discovery of 5 recognizable pieces of the craft, will be a learning moment and there will be more regulation of deep sea diving for tourism in the near future. And the families of the victims will say that's enough and probably name the legislation after one, or a few of the victims.

2. The family of the victims will make sure OceanGate will never build another deep sea vessel ever again. This one will depend on the legal logistics. Just like how some airlines caused airliner crashes due to pure negligence, some of the first-class families weren't able to sue them into non-existence due to international airspace and/or waters protections.

Because either of those two things are what typically happens in such a scenario. At least lately.

I didn't know I can let out a sigh that large. Wow, surprised myself.

I got a $2000 bill for an ambulance. And then kept getting nickel and dimed by them for $200, $100 charges for the next two years. The whole system is screwed up.

Even if they did have to pay, it's insignificant when you're that wealthy

What is this about

Where I live, in Canada, if you aren't insured a plane trip to a hospital will cost you upwards of $30k

Don't you know? Consequences are for little people.

I honestly don’t know shit about fuck but I would hope that there would be some type of litigation or something that would figure this out right?

Christ, this comment section is almost 100% reactionary.

Downplayed as a good "training exercise"...

Who do you think pays when governments bail out large private corporations?

what about the boat in greece that sunk?

I mean they probably will. It's just that the families have so much money it'll be like a drop in the bucket for them. ¯\(ツ)/¯