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Billionaires
And bunkers
1. I rarely think I have answers to questions asked on social media unless that question is some variation of “Are Nazis bad?” and then it is straightforward for me to respond, “Yes.”
But there was one question this past summer that I read online that I could answer instantly, and that was why the U.S. media cared more about the five people who died in a submersible on an expedition to the Titanic wreck at the bottom of the Atlantic than the nearly 500 Pakistani, Syrian, Egyptian and Palestinian immigrants who died in a small fishing trawler that sunk near Greece in the Mediterranean.
Both tragedies happened days apart, but only one grabbed headlines.
The answer is that no one fantasizes about being an immigrant fleeing crushing poverty and war. No one pictures themselves as a refugee. But every single regular person in America daydreams about being a billionaire.
In pop culture, billionaires are depicted as brilliant heroes who wear high-tech military-grade body armor to fight street crime far from their fancy manors. Billionaires build empires. They are pioneers who push us forward and prophets who can see the future.
To be a billionaire is to never worry about hospital bills. Many billionaires invest…
