Extreme tourism allows ultra-wealthy to explore new frontiers

Heard the super rich like submarine rides too.

Read a good interview with James Cameron about the recent disaster with the deep sea submersible going to the Titanic. Mr. Cameron has spent a lot of time on deep sea dives, and he said the submersible that imploded was of a badly flawed design, right from the start. He said that it was made from carbon resin (?), which is inherently unsuitable for repeated deep dives.

I recommend looking up what he had to say, or watching his interview with Anderson Cooper.

On one side this is a relatively innocuous (or even productive) way for rich people to spend their money, and in some cases it can actually result in things that can be used for the benefit of humanity. On the other this can also lead to people polluting and destroying places that were conserved up to recent times only because they were inaccessible.

If I were super-rich, you can bet I too would be doing a lot of fancy traveling. The idea of going to space sounds like a lot of fun. I have gone down in a tourist submarine off the coast of Hawaii, but only a hundred feet or so. Lots of fun.

I do wish the super rich would pay their fair share of taxes. Musk and the others pay a smaller percentage in taxes than us middle class people.

Culling the "1%."