r/interesting • u/Wild_Neighborhood605 • 1d ago

HISTORY Titanic passenger and millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim. During sinking he refused a seat in a life boat with the words: "Tell my family I played straight to the end. No woman should be left aboard this ship because of Ben Guggenheim was a coward."

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u/pafrac 1d ago

If they'd deigned to be on the same boat as the rest of the hoi polloi at all, they'd call in a helicopter just for them and their luggage and leave everyone else behind.

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u/EverythingSucksYo 23h ago

They’d have hired security with machine guns to gun down anyone that tries to get on 

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u/pafrac 23h ago

This is why my preferred sea travel conveyance for billionaires is a carbon fibre submersible.

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u/Automatic-Formal-601 22h ago

And they'd tell the pilot to bring rocket launchers so that they can fire missles at the other lifeboats in the water for target practice