Fourth death at "The Vessel" sculpture in New York City's Hudson Yards

[gracchus]

@fuzzyfungus

Would it be uncharitable of me to suspect that only fear of litigation keeps the sort of people who would design, build or fund such a monument to grinding futility from seeing periodic deaths as a feature rather than a bug?

Not at all. As I noted a few years ago, “The Vessel” is

@gracchus

not for the plutocrats who live and work in this enclave to climb; instead, they’ll observe from their hermetically sealed towers as a constant stream of rubes re-enact the striving and endless climb to nowhere that is the dance of the American temporarily embarrassed millionaire. And they’ll laugh and laugh and laugh …

In a spin on the Facebook business model, if you’re not a museum patron, you’re part of the exhibit.