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.”
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 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.
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.