Billionaires living on an exclusive island near Miami are at the center of a heated debate over sewage disposal. With no system in place, they’ve proposed sending their waste to a nearby town, but the deal comes with a hefty price tag.

Original article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/us/indian-creek-surfside-billionaire-sewage.html

Without the paywall: https://archive.li/HrE38

Alternative: https://gizmodo.com/billionaire-island-where-bezos-lives-lobbies-state-gov-to-flush-its-poop-down-neighbor-towns-pipes-2000615795

Note

While the news is concerning, it seems Daily Galaxy had all the hallmarks of a content mill aping more legit sources. I had no idea because I follow a lot of RSS feeds and this had been sitting there for a while now. I choose it for the science stuff. Sorry. I honestly wasn’t aware.

  • ProfThadBach@lemmy.world
    60·
    20 hours ago

    So 40 billionaires can’t pay to hook in to the local sewage system and then pay their fair share? Why the fuck is it so hard for them to part with what they would consider pocket change? I mean fuck they could even fund the whole sewage system for not only them but for the nearby towns as well.

    • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
      40·
      18 hours ago

      Why the fuck is it so hard for them to part with what they would consider pocket change?

      It’s not about the money

      It’s about “fuck you, I do what I want now do what I tell you or I will throw more money than most cities get in their yearly budget in order to ruin everything for everyone”

    • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      31·
      18 hours ago

      You don’t get ultra-rich by paying your fair share, but by leeching on others, like they are now trying to do

    • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
      242·
      17 hours ago

      They don’t even care about the sewage. They pay some flunky who pinches pennies to justify his existence and that one is the one that tries to dump sewage into other people. The banality of evil.