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.”
Indian Creek has referred to this request as “extortion.”
Strange. I could swear it was called a “free market”.
No but see it’s only called that when i do it.
All these guys deserve to be dragged these guys through the streets until they’re ketchup.
Jeff bezos did not invent nor does he own the idea of buying things on the internet.
Zuckerberg did not invent t nor does he own the idea of people communicating on the internet.
Elon musk is subhuman trash.
Is it American gothic time yet?
Keep them pitchforks pointy!
Hook it up backwards so all the shit goes their way.
“Let them eat shit” - Arie Mantoinette
Let them eat THEIR OWN shit.
Just out of curiosity, how hard are those pipes to sabotage?
That’ll just pollute the ocean.
1 island
1 bridge
I’m not condoning violence, I’m condoning demolition.
They may have helicopters and boats.
Cardboard drones with rocks in them.
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
And it’s not like it’s really free. lobbying costs money as well
The way they see it is a gamble: 10 million dollars for a fair deal or pay out 10 million dollars to some crooked lawyers for bribes and the pinkertons to get some dirt and leverage on neighboring community and walk away with extra power and a dumping ground for your piss and shit.
It’s all about the power and influence.
I would bet they spent way less than 10 million. Lobbying in the US seems to generally a great deal compared to the value one receives.
Given musk didn’t get his tax credit I’m not so sure. But he did remove all possible oversight from his companies so he can make them less safe, treat his workers worse, and make more fraudulent claims about his products. Its always about power and never cost effectiveness.
This really captures the reality of the situation, and is exactly what pisses me off most about these uber-wealthy: they are cheapskates to their very core and will not give up a penny without being a fucking Karen first
Didn’t know we had so many in one place. Why the fuck can’t we get somebody to take it out.
Fucking mass shooters and terrorists bombing and they always target schools and, churches, etc. Why not for once target a place like that?
According to the quote they have taken precautions, the peasantry is not allowed on the island. And to make sure they dont try, they have armed guards and security systems in place.
Didn’t say be easy, but I doubt its not has hard as they won’t you to believe. All one has to do is either infiltrate the place, or pay a few guards off. Doubt they are getting paid all that well.
From having heard stories from people in the area, it is worse than just guards. Guys in speedboats in full tactical gear, cameras and sonar sensors and all sorts of shit that can tell how close you are, where you are, from a mile out from the shore, and dispatch people there in minutes. It is legitimately a cyberpunk gated community.
The servants have to go in and out. And even if they’re all loyal, there’s always new hires or temps, not to mention delivery and service vehicles going in and out.
What about a drone and just dropping sone bombs onto the place.
If the Ukrainians can do it to russian airbases, it should be doable to the island. But it costs money. And the type of people who have that kind of money see themselves living on that island some day.
Well then us poors should pool our money and start fighting back. Where rhe fuck are the anarchist and far left people at? I’m sure we can do this.
Not paying your enforcers well enough to make sure they are loyal would probably be the dumbest mistake anyone with wealth and/or power can make.
Not saying it cant be done of course, but it seems a bit more involved than climbing over a fence after giving the guard some cigarettes.
Seeing how they are throwing a fit paying such small fund to take care of their own shit, I have no doubt those guards are paid the bare minimum. They live in such another world that they just expect loyalty. I like to know what they are paid? Second just how much they care really about protecting bunch of billionaires that don’t give two shits about them.
Pfft do they have tanks?
Roads typically go two ways. They may have one side of the road but eventually the billionaires have to come out the other.
We can easily mine the side just past the guards.
Iirc they pay cops to guard them on and off duty.
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?
Yea, but it’ll add up, will all their places/houses/retreats… Can’t have that.
Not “giving away”. Spending, for services. Which just makes it even more audacious.
I make 3k/mo and spend $70/mo on trash/water/sewage services.
I’m hungry too
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.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.
Unfathomable is right. Especially when you consider that his net worth will continue to soar for the foreseeable future.
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.
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.
so many of the world’s problems boil down to a handful of tech bros who made that book their entire personality.
congratulations on escaping the Rand death cult
Its pretty crazy when you think about it
I tried reading that book. Couldn’t get past the first chapter.
Remember back in 2008, curiously right after Obama was elected and the conservatives were really feeling their neo-confederate roots, all the Republicans in my neighborhood started passing “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” amongst themselves. For some reason, nobody ever bothers to read “Anthem” or get to the back half of “I, Robot” in these groups.
They learned how to take advantage of people, thats it.
It’s not a small skill. For every filthy rich oligarch, living off the accrued labor of thousands of proles, there are a hundred hustlers and influencers and drop shippers and mid-level MLMers who sling just enough slop around to make ends meet. For every drop shipper, there are a hundred factory workers churning out consumerist crap at pennies on the retail dollar, so the drop shippers have something hock.
Being at the top of an empire of greed and exploitation is a full time job. It’s not all yacht cruises and prostitute orgies. You spend a bunch of time selling $10k glasses of water in the sweat tents of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. You spend a lot of time pissing out all that Ketamine while pretending to be the best Fortnite player on Earth.
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.
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A touch heavy on kids who just happened to be born.
Force closure of the bridge, enforce a no fly zone. Cut them the fuck off until they learn.
Make sure as many as possible are home first.
You think they drive there? Helipads. The road is for the poorly paid workers.
What part of no fly zone was unclear?
The part where they have no air force. A road they can block, but the helicopters don’t have to fly over the town to get to the island.
Oh, I’m fucking sorry that you don’t understand that I was talking about the billionaire enclave, and there is enough airforce in the state.
This is far more symbolic than intended.
Didn’t even bother to grow a handlebar mustache.
