#we wouldn’t be acting like this if it was Dolly Parton on that sub

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I read an article the other day about how a bunch of celebrities including the Kardashians had gone over their water rationing limit in California, which has been in a drought for three years. A fine isn’t much of a deterrent.

I suspect that this sort of thing is the real reason people have been making jokes about the Oceangate/Titan Submersible imploding. It’s not really about 5 billionaires**, it’s about every billionaire whose money is able to shield them from consequence***.

** It’s not even 5 billionaires. It’s 2 billionaires, a teenager, a researcher, and a CEO who only just broke even with his startup duct tape and bailing wire tourism venture.

*** The whole thing makes me think of the French people lined up along the street to watch Marie Antoinette go to the guillotine. By this point she’d been falsely accused to her face of molesting her son, had that son taken away and heard the jailers beating him. She had uterine cancer and had stopped eating out of depression. If she were just an ordinary person, she would have inspired pity. But because she was the queen, people spat on her.