King Princess, the great-great-granddaughter of Isodor and Idea Straus, who died when the Titanic sank, has some thoughts on the Titan submersible disaster.
“I think there is a cycle of bajonga-jillionaires wanting to explore shit and then dying,” King Princess said on TikTok in a video that has since been taken down . “Like, look at my fucking family, right? Who wants to take a boat across the ocean? That sounds terrible. But they did it because they had the money to, and they died. So now these people are like, ‘Oh, I have so much money. Oh my god, I just want to go to the inhabitable depths of the ocean.’ In a GameCube? No. Dead! Sorry.
She continued, “Rich people are not exempt from making really stupid decisions, obviously. Why do rich people go to space? You don’t need to be there. You’re not a fucking scientist. Because they make terrible decisions, constantly.
The passengers included OceanGate’s founder and CEO Stockton Rush, British aviation businessman Hamish Harding, retired French Navy commander and Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet, British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, and his 19-year-old son, Suleman. Like King Princess, Rush’s wife Wendy is also great-great-granddaughter of Straus, a businessman and Macy’s department store co-owner. The late Strauses were the wealthiest couple to die when the ship went down.
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