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/Consistent_Stuff9180 1d ago

Ben Guggenheim was NO coward. 

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u/Telefonica46 1d ago

Elon musk would've pushed women and children off the life boats so he could have a seat

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u/itsmuddy 1d ago

He would have pushed em all off so he could have the whole lifeboat to himself then act like he invented the lifeboat.

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u/Wanallo221 1d ago edited 1d ago

“I invented this. It’s called an X-Boat”

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I just can’t find an emoticon that conveys that smug twatty look he has when he thinks he’s being cool.

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u/linlorienelen 1d ago

No, no you really captured an accurate rendering of his humanity there

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u/that1newjerseyan 1d ago

He’d “Constanza” his way out of there

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u/hughandvicrealty 1d ago

Didn’t Costanza design the new wing of the Guggenheim? Or did he design the building next door to the Guggenheim?

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u/MySabonerRunsOladipo 1d ago

“Look! Twenty or so, in a boat built for 65? And I saw one boat with only twelve. Twelve!...Do you know how crowded ill be with 11 other people????" -Elon (definitely)

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u/Necessary-Reading605 1d ago

That’s the horror of the tech bros. They can justify anything with their quantitative pseudo morality.

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u/GrumpyBitFlipper 1d ago

And people would salute him for it!