Poor people don’t have access to education or educated advisors, as much as people who could solve poverty for their whole nation, if they chose.

There was that one guy who built his own rocket and died in the desert. That kind of qualifies. Also the existence of the running of the bulls and the cheese wheel race. Those are reported like “look at those idiots. Of course they got hurt.”

That’s the kind of journalistic lens I’m looking for when taking about dopes that signed a haunted house style waiver to add to the Titanic’s body count.

It is probably an indirect criticism of the “just make better decisions and you’ll be rich” mentality that generally tries to put rich people on a pedestal for being geniuses who ‘figured it out’ and ‘read between the lines’ to get on top

Sure, everyone does dumb shit. But rich people have the money, time and opportunity to do dumber shit on a bigger scale. When they get in trouble they have the infrastructure to bail them out.

I’m not going to cry a tear for rich people who bolted themselves into a death tube and have have caused a multimillion dollar rescue effort to be launched in their behalf.

When poor people do dumb shit they’re left to die in obscurity without any help. The news is full of stories about orcas destroying mega yachts, CEOs sabotaging their own companies and billionaires launching stupid new tech ventures. I’d enjoy watching them set their money on fire if it weren’t for the harm they’re causing everyone else.