# All In The Same Boat  ## Metadata - Author: [[A.R. Moxon]] - Full Title: All In The Same Boat - Category: #articles - Date: 2023-08-08 - URL: https://armoxon.substack.com/p/all-in-the-same-boat - [ ] #toFile ➕ 2023-08-08 - [ ] #toProcess ➕ 2023-08-08 ## Highlights added 2023-08-08 - our society, we’ve arranged things so that if you don’t have sufficient money, enough pressure will be exerted upon you that you will eventually be submerged and crushed to death, and then you’ll be gone and those of us with money won’t have to worry about you anymore ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h7abhdk4kd3abyncyxyken7x)) - Note: Clever - so they blow some of it on trips to other places that are even more inhospitable to human life than a society that has been geared to accommodate only the wealthy, like space, or the ocean floor ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h7abkpv5q3nxj81g93w5xjrb)) - Note: Is the whole article some clever quips on platitudes? - Again, it’s not too difficult to see why a rich person might believe that rules don’t apply to them, because as long as those rules are societal rules, they actually don’t apply ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h7abncdr84pxhdryzvxfw6e0)) - But sometimes when people use the word, they mean “ignoring a rule that was there for what might be very good reasons, in order to gain an advantage by doing things that other people aren’t permitted to do. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h7abs9yk1b3y5bc4jjkbsfnc)) - When the Titan imploded, everyone inside died pretty much immediately. Don’t get all superior on them; you would have died, too. You’re probably not even rich, so you might have died even quicker ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h7abwawvqmcdgqbxk1cqc8bs)) - Note: Lol - There are many lessons to all this, probably ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h7abwqv5z0a1q6tzv5qpfmpr)) - Note: Clever all of this - seems we all will, if we aren’t willing to innovate our thinking ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h7ac0awksvmhv0k4w29pyesa)) - Note: Is that the call of the article then? - A lot of times I’ll tell stories to get into an idea. It’s my belief that most real innovations begin with an idea, which turns into a thought, which turns into a story, and, if the story proves true, it eventually does a better job of describing reality than the old idea, and it captures people’s spirit, and then change happens. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h7ac17zydpdsk9az8kyd9n7j)) - Note: Aha - notice that a popular story in recent decades called “the end of the world for most people but not for me.” In these stories, it’s Armageddon time, and the waves rise, and the buildings crumble, or the pandemic strikes, or whatever it is happens. The hero of this story is usually an American Man type of dude, and he usually has to get to his family, and he does that, and usually there’s a dog, too, and there’s always some facility or safe ground somewhere that very few will be able to get to in time, but which our hero will manage to get to in the end. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h7ac2ahgbeeyw5zw9afz9rk8)) - Note: Yep - who once said that the answer to rising sea levels submerging your house is to simply sell your house ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h7ac3s616364ed5ncb7amrkg)) - Note: ROFL - Ben Shapiro seems to believe a particularly genocidal version of “the world ends for everyone but us,” which is that if we’re rich enough to afford air conditioning, we’ll live even if everybody else dies, and that is reason enough to ignore the fact that our planet is growing uninhabitable to many animals, including human beings. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h7ac9av6t2mjq6d73drsqx3z)) - I guess he hasn’t thought about what happens when the air conditioner needs repair, or where we’ll get the materials to make new ones, probably for the same reason as he never thought about who is going to buy a submerged house ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h7ac9tk5m09e6e872jbew34g))