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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.”

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[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 8 points 10 months ago

Hook it up backwards so all the shit goes their way.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

It's physiological. They don't like other people dictating to them how to do things.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Soend 100 million yo build your own infrastructure of spend 10 million yo use your neighbor's. Of course your going to call your neighbors extortionists, even though you're the billionaire that has all the money and your neighbors just want to be paid for a service.

This is what the new billionaires are: they think everything should be free for them, because everyone gets everything for free, right? It's how they can pay their serfs so little money because they too get everything for free, so everyone is happy, right?

Right?

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

It really is how the dotcomites and techbros see the world. They built everything for a song (and having the luck to be born with access to the materials to build their empires), so obviously the entire world that's NOT a corporate entity should be handed to them for free.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just out of curiosity, how hard are those pipes to sabotage?

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

That'll just pollute the ocean.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

The bears in the New Hampshire debacle is a thing of legend.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

They should raise the price for having to deal with this slander.

[–] rusticus@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

The Sovereign Individual. Read it. It’s the playbook for these assholes.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

c/NotTheOnion

Bezos looks like a greasy lubed butt plug

[–] Tetragrade@leminal.space 2 points 10 months ago

Poopshitters rise up

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 2 points 10 months ago

More like shit creek village

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