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.”
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!
“Let them eat shit” - Arie Mantoinette
Sounds like the perfect location for a couple dozen daisy cutters.
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.
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.
Unfathomable is right. Especially when you consider that his net worth will continue to soar for the foreseeable future.
Classic oligarch behaviour = billionaires bitching about spending $10M to take care of their own feces.
Didn’t know we had so many in one place. Why the fuck can’t we get somebody to take it out.
Fucking mass shooters and terrorists bombing and they always target schools and, churches, etc. Why not for once target a place like that?
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.
Yea, but it’ll add up, will all their places/houses/retreats… Can’t have that.
Force closure of the bridge, enforce a no fly zone. Cut them the fuck off until they learn.
Make sure as many as possible are home first.
You think they drive there? Helipads. The road is for the poorly paid workers.
What part of no fly zone was unclear?
The part where they have no air force. A road they can block, but the helicopters don’t have to fly over the town to get to the island.
Oh, I’m fucking sorry that you don’t understand that I was talking about the billionaire enclave, and there is enough airforce in the state.
The state ain’t going to do shit. They will bend over backwards to keep those billionaires spending money in thier state. This is between the town that doesn’t want thier shit and the enclave.
In an effort to fight this grave injustice, the community’s village council subsequently traveled to Florida’s State Capitol to lobby on behalf of the toilet-related concerns. The Times notes that Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, is a member of Indian Creek Village and is on the council.
The lobbying appears to have worked, as the Times reports that a large transportation bill recently approved by the state legislature now includes a “new legal measure prohibiting municipalities from blocking or charging for the installation of certain sewer lines — like the one Indian Creek wants to build, for example.” The bill now only has to be signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis. Charles Burkett, the mayor of Surfside, told the Times that he was blindsided by the legislative effort to resolve the matter.
Sometimes I think we need some pirates to attack the island.
Gonna take a lot of plumbers to set up the new sewer system, curious if any like sporting green.
It’s only 1-2 miles off the coast. A fixed wing FPV drone could make it there and back with no issue. Or just there with an issue.
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.
Another pedo island?
Guaranteed
This is far more symbolic than intended.
Sure would be a shame if some enterprising soul put together an improvised FAE and introduced the residents to aerosolized exothermic reactions
Kinda roll’s off the tongue, don’t it?
Apparently billionaires do give a shit. A lot of it. An entire island of shit… Trickling down to the next layer down of
hellrich people.what kind of name is Indian Creek village?
for me it’s the chef’s kiss of American imperialistic racism and genocide reference of which everyone used to be proud
Just looked, there’s a Normandy shores just below it. I expect manmade.
