Classic oligarch behaviour = billionaires bitching about spending $10M to take care of their own feces.

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.

The truth about billionaires is they're actually poor. Most of their wealth is tied up in loans or illiquid assets. They can't afford to spend the money unless they can take out another loan against their other loans or implied wealth.

Ha ha ha. Kidding. They're just assholes.

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?

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.

Force closure of the bridge, enforce a no fly zone. Cut them the fuck off until they learn.

This is far more symbolic than intended.

Sure would be a shame if some enterprising soul put together an improvised FAE and introduced the residents to aerosolized exothermic reactions

Oooh, those poor billionaires, being expected to pay for the infrastructure they need for their private island. Outrageous! It's the peons who are supposed to pay!

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

1 island

1 bridge

I'm not condoning violence, I'm condoning demolition.

Didn’t even bother to grow a handlebar mustache.

Apparently billionaires do give a shit. A lot of it. An entire island of shit... Trickling down to the next layer down of hell rich people.

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.

Every last one of their communities is nothing but a leech and extortion of others. Every single one. Why not use a fraction of his immense wealth to improve the infrastructure?

Another pedo island?

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!

"Let them eat shit" - Arie Mantoinette

Hook it up backwards so all the shit goes their way.

Sounds like the perfect location for a couple dozen daisy cutters.

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.

Just out of curiosity, how hard are those pipes to sabotage?

remember the story of the liberterians that dint want to pay taxes, and they couldnt afford the public services that wouldve been need to use in order to take out trash, waste managment, etc. they abandoned shortly,. and another one where they were driven out by bears, because they decided to be "self sufficients.

They should raise the price for having to deal with this slander.

Soend 100 million yo build your own infrastructure of spend 10 million yo use your neighbor's. Of course your going to call your neighbors extortionists, even though you're the billionaire that has all the money and your neighbors just want to be paid for a service.

This is what the new billionaires are: they think everything should be free for them, because everyone gets everything for free, right? It's how they can pay their serfs so little money because they too get everything for free, so everyone is happy, right?

Right?

The Sovereign Individual. Read it. It’s the playbook for these assholes.

c/NotTheOnion

Poopshitters rise up

Bezos looks like a greasy lubed butt plug

More like shit creek village