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.”
Bezos looks like a greasy lubed butt plug
“Let them eat shit” - Arie Mantoinette
Let them eat THEIR OWN shit.
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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!
Didn’t even bother to grow a handlebar mustache.
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.
It’s physiological. They don’t like other people dictating to them how to do things.
This is far more symbolic than intended.
They should raise the price for having to deal with this slander.
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.
The most frustrating part of this “article” was that it did not elucidate any aspect of the request or the scope of the project. Nobody knows the infrastructure except for the parties involved.
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.
Classic oligarch behaviour = billionaires bitching about spending $10M to take care of their own feces.
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.
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.
Pfft do they have tanks?
Iirc they pay cops to guard them on and off duty.
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
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
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.
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?
Not “giving away”. Spending, for services. Which just makes it even more audacious.
Yea, but it’ll add up, will all their places/houses/retreats… Can’t have that.
I make 3k/mo and spend $70/mo on trash/water/sewage services.
I’m hungry too
Force closure of the bridge, enforce a no fly zone. Cut them the fuck off until they learn.
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.
The state ain’t going to do shit. They will bend over backwards to keep those billionaires spending money in thier state. This is between the town that doesn’t want thier shit and the enclave.
Make sure as many as possible are home first.
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.
The bears in the New Hampshire debacle is a thing of legend.
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.
