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when you put it like that i'm suddenly pro death trap

cool username.

Their business model is to take wealthy explorers and also researchers, hoping that the explorers subsidise the researchers. So there is collateral damage.

Robinhood Travel Company

Instead of a honey-trap, it’s a money-trap

At least the user name is mostly relevant.

> This sounds like this group is just taking billionaires' money while running a death trap.

What if people pay for that exactly because it's risky and potentially fatal?

I mean, if you accept that what you're doing is inherently unethical and immoral (I made a death trap but I'll let you pay to ride in it anyway instead of fixing it because you like danger and I like money!), then there's really no limit to the kind of terrible things you can put out into the world. But most of us would stop and reconsider what we're doing.

Mitchell and Webb had some fantastic skits about this: https://youtu.be/DTcBWo4Aj0g

https://youtu.be/xXSRvQlALMA

Not very sustainable if you're killing billionaires.