Fact: a moderate-size steel roller coaster costs about $2 million to build. A giant world-class roller coaster costs about $20 million.
Fact: the US has about 5,000 households worth over $100 million dollars.
Therefore: each of these households could afford to build several decent roller coasters in public parks and leave endowments to staff and maintain them for the next several decades, all without coming anywhere near leaving the 0.1%.
Conclusion: if we’re going to have massive wealth inequality, we could at least get way more roller coasters out of it.
I was imagining something like the drawing thing, but instead a person in a wheelchair, at the point where they’d get stuck trying to use these and looking really grumpy.
Tldr: rich ppl allowed to be jerks to other rich ppl bc some rich ppl didn’t want to pay $14 tax bill
Which is kinda fun because usually only poor people get fucked over like this.
No guys that tl;dr misses the best part: why they are able to do this.
They are able to do this because this is a private street. They are able to do this because of the ORIGINAL JACKASSERY of previous rich people who wanted to be able to literally bar all people Not Cool Enough from even being on their street (something you cannot do if it’s a public street).
ALSO THE SECOND BEST PART:
There’s a bit of irony in the couple’s purchase. Until a 1948 U.S. Supreme Court ruling banning the enforcement of racial covenants, homes in Presidio Terrace could be purchased only by whites.
“The more we dug into this,” said the Taiwan-born Cheng, “the more interesting it got.”
Kimchi and Justice 