Dagwood222

This is where caring counts. We've all seen videos where 'dad reflexes' kick in and someone reacts in micro-seconds to save a kid. Medical staff was getting paid to show up and be on stand-by. They were expecting a broken leg, or other trauma.

I've never been to a billionaire polo match [sad trumpet] but I'd assume that there be some medical staff, like you'd find at any major sporting event where injury is likely. On the other hand, I could see how the staff was prepared for a broken neck and not considering bee stings. Either way, it's pretty funny.

People are downvoting you, I assume because they think you are lauding some other east Asian billionaire.

iirc Epi-pen is the usual treatment, and those things are pretty easy to obtain.

I think that OP philpo is on to something, that the medical staff was a bit slow to deal with the situation.

I remember an Arthur Clarke novel where a space ship needs water from the planet below. The easiest thing is to lower cables from space and then lift some ice bergs.

So, no space elevator in the next few months?

That's what happened. The house was designed a few years aback and now no one wants it. God forbid we let homeless folks live there...

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-naked-sun-isaac-asimov/11418127?ean=9780553293395&next=t

The Naked Sun.

Classic sci-fi about an Earth detective sent to solve a crime on a planet where all the humans live in private mansions with thousands of robot servants.

The story I heard was that at least two people went broke trying to build a super mansion on 10 acres of prime beach front property. The final guy swooped in and brought the half made house so he could resell the land in smaller lots. He got the castle demolished for free by making a deal with a Hollywood studio. The blew the house up for him to make the climax of an action movie. Bad Boys 2 iirc

There are so many things that piss me off about rich people and unused luxuries are at the top of the list.

There was another story about a $10 million house no one wanted to buy because it was 'out of style.'

Empty apartments, rooms full of clothes that were never worn, all kinds of things...

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https://bookshop.org/p/books/delta-v-daniel-suarez/10222863?ean=9781524742416&next=t

Fun book about asteroid mining in the near future.

Subtlety was never my strong point.