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    1. Oliver Bateman Does the Work‏Verified account @MoustacheClubUS 24 May 2019
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      we call this photo "well-off, middle-aged neoliberal folks achieving things"pic.twitter.com/6vTOjYWzCu

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    2. Кубланистан‏ @inkubik 24 May 2019
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      The weather window for the last ascent can be as narrow as 4-6 hours, so the people in the photo can be the only 50 who ascend that season. It’s obviously not an everyday line.

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    3. Oliver Bateman Does the Work‏Verified account @MoustacheClubUS 24 May 2019
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      My concern isn't the volume, as some others who have discussed this photo have remarked upon, merely that it captures an enormous investment of money in one photo

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    4. Кубланистан‏ @inkubik 25 May 2019
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      Everest expeditions start as low as $30k, more comfortable ones at 60-100k. The whole line is therefore worth around $3-5m. On a less black and white side: part of those goes to the local community and the nepalese government earns several million a year by selling permits.

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    5. Mikko‏ @MWLautamo 25 May 2019
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      Yeah, but what if everyone up there stayed home and sent a check to aid people in Nepal instead? I think that would help a lot more people, plus save time, jet fuel and keep a natural wonder cleaner.

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    6. Oliver Bateman Does the Work‏Verified account @MoustacheClubUS 25 May 2019
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      there are surely some positive externalities, much as there are for yacht builders and yacht crews, but is this direction of resources wise in an aggregate sense? People can do what they want, but those behaviors aren't above review or criticism. And is $3m an insubstantial sum?

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      Oliver Bateman Does the Work‏Verified account @MoustacheClubUS 25 May 2019
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      $3m is certainly a drop in the bucket versus $3b or $3 trillion, but widening the frame doesn't necessarily moot consideration of the expenditure. It's fascinating in the same way the super-yacht life is fascinating, something in which more people would indulge if they could

      1:09 PM - 25 May 2019 from Pittsburgh, PA
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