You never learn the name of the “unimportant” people that die in air crashes
Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 days agoBecause those important people are more likely to be in a plane than unimportant people.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 3 days ago
howrar@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
We might not learn their names, but we definitely learn about the aircraft and how many people died.
wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
If its of a certain size yes, but the planes that actually crash everyday don’t get reported widely because they’re tiny aircraft
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Now that I had ent considered. There’s importance squared. A second layer.
I’m tired of humans. I’m now identify as one of those gay frogs Alex Jones is so strangely passionate about.
howrar@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Commercial planes are constantly coming and going through every major airport. Do these wealthy people really collectively fly more than that?
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
How often does Bezos end up in a plane? How often are you in a plane?
howrar@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
That’s the wrong question to ask. “important people are more likely to be in a plane than unimportant people” is valid as a partial explanation only if we assume that all aircrafts have similar crash probabilities and are flown with a similar number of passengers.
The frequency with which I personally fly does not impact how often other people fly. All it does is give you one data point on how often other people in my situation might fly, and we don’t know how many others are in my situation, so that information is also useless.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Let us assume 2 people fly in planes. One of them does so 10 times a month. The other 10 times a year. The risks are higher for the 10 times a month flyer.
HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
They fly small planes, in a lot of cases they fly themselves.