Private, For-Profit Company Loses People on the Ocean Floor – Public Institutions Are Sent in to Save Them

1. Who Makes Money? and, 2. Who Pays for Those Who Make the Money?

Answer- 1. Private Corporations, 2. Taxpayer Supported Public Institutions.

The missing submersible is operated by OceanGate Expeditions, a company that offers tours of shipwrecks and underwater canyons.  Rich people pay $250,000 to travel to the Titanic’s wreckage on the seabed on the submersible. These are some of the same people who pay millions for joy rides into space. Aircraft from the United States and Canada were searching for the submersible, and sonar buoys had been deployed to help search under the surface. The Coast Guard was also coordinating with commercial vessels in the area to aid the search operation. Millions of dollars of the people’s tax dollars are being used to find these plutocrats. When interviewed, a local taxpayer who works two jobs for $7.25/hour cleaning the toilets for plutocrats, said; “I hope they find those guys because the 32% in taxes I pay to support plutocrats who pay 3% in taxes, is really fair. My local Republican congressman told me I need to work harder, and someday I can ride in a free enterprise submersible.”

At a news conference in Boston on Monday afternoon, Rear Adm. John Mauger of the U.S. Coast Guard said that rescue crews were searching in a “remote area” in water roughly 13,000 feet deep, and that they were up against the clock to find those on board the vessel.

In a world run by plutocrats alive with algorithms and intelligences actively rewarding our most selfish tendencies, let’s not rediscover community, mutual aid, and human interdependency. Instead, let’s hope we can find these plutocrats so that the millions of dollars they’ve squandered from the people of the US can be used for future squandering.