i was just listening to someone being interviewed about surviving a shipwreck in the north sea and it's just like
"so we keep sending people up to the command crew telling them the below-decks workspace is filling with water and the pumps won't work, but they keep refusing to send an engineer down or stop fishing to do anything about it because they are in the middle of hauling a lot of fish which means a lot of money"
"finally it's so flooded we're about to drown and we can't get life vests for everyone because the life vests are all locked up with padlocks in a locker because the captain and his mate thought the crew might try to steal them and sell them ashore."
"and then the captain told me not to bother trying to launch any of the other lifeboats even though it's a 38 man crew and the lifeboat we've just launched only holds 15" (the guy went and launched them anyway, which probably saved about 10 lives)
"when we opened the several emergency bags on the lifeboats there were no flares or rations or a satellite phone or any emergency supplies at all in them, just a video camera and some pamphlets"
like. 21 of the 38 men died. while the whole thing was basically a guaranteed disaster because of the greed and selfishness of the captain and his command crew and their refusal to listen to their workers and engineers.
and all i could think was my gods, this is a perfect example of how everything "works" isn't it, like, if the country, or the world even, is the ship.... and the wealthy are like "shut up we're making money" and the powerful are like "shut up we know better than you" while we keep sending people to tell them that we're all about to drown, jfc.
