The story of the Titan disaster reflects a fascination with extremely wealthy people. We often believe that those privileged few, who are normally spared life’s large and small inconveniences, would also naturally be spared something as awful as an untimely death. I think we have a macabre attraction to the dissolving of wealth’s perceived invulnerability, and this, More

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