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.”
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.
1/225 of 1% for him to foot the bill.
You don’t become a billionaire by picking up your own tab.
Unfathomable is right. Especially when you consider that his net worth will continue to soar for the foreseeable future.
And that’s just him footing the bill. I’m assuming other billionaires on the island would help cover the cost. So essentially it would cost him couch change to just make it go away. Yep sounds about right.
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.
I make 3k/mo and spend $70/mo on trash/water/sewage services.
I’m hungry too
Yea, but it’ll add up, will all their places/houses/retreats… Can’t have that.
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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.
This is far more symbolic than intended.
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!
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?
Didn’t even bother to grow a handlebar mustache.
Another pedo island?
Guaranteed
“Let them eat shit” - Arie Mantoinette
Let them eat THEIR OWN shit.
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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.
what kind of name is Indian Creek village?
Just looked, there’s a Normandy shores just below it. I expect manmade.
The Sovereign Individual. Read it. It’s the playbook for these assholes.
Sounds like the perfect location for a couple dozen daisy cutters.
