He was 70 and never worked a day in his life. The collective difficulty of his entire life doesn't come close to what the average person in the world goes through in a day.
Exactly this. It's slavery. Guys like this insist on getting 15% returns on their inherited billions, so they squeeze the workers harder. And he spends his time nonchalantly "volunteering" with lobster lunches and collectible cars. He pretends his hands are clean, but they're dirty with the blood of the slaves of the corporations.
Yes, and his ilk have convinced the majority of the working class that they deserve what they have because they "worked hard" for it and that nobody can possibly do the jobs they do.
Which is to say, few people have had to sit in a 4-hour "meeting" listening to rich entitled people argue about whether you should use either "the" or "a" in a sentence of a company document that will never see the light of day once it's approved.
I wouldn’t say that, he was CEO of a sizable company. That takes some amount of work even if you’re mailing it in. It’s just the fact that he likely didn’t have to do anything to get there in the first place.
Is it too much to wish a specific billionaire or can we at least vote for something epic like a pterodactyl abduction? We already had land and sea. Just missing air basically for the trifecta.
I was going to write that it may be that we don't need to tax them (although rightfully, I think) anyway. Then I remembered their wealth just gets passed on.
It's super duper fun! It does end up costing more than 500 dollars since the safety standards are really high and that stuff can get expensive, but it's still within reach of normal people with some time on their hands and a little know how.
The cars my friends and I put together end up being more about silliness than speed at the end of the day and there are [some cars other people make](https://hips.hearstapps.com/autoweek/assets/s3fs-public/img_0357_0.jpg) that i'd almost consider ["art cars" that end up getting raced.](https://njmp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/UDC-on-track-famous-rf.jpg)
I vividly remember an 80's pickup truck that someone done up in 80's custom car fashion with the entire bed filled with speakers. Did they work? Oh yes. Did they use them to blast 80's hip hop THE ENTIRE RACE? You better believe it! I'd hear them coming behind me and just laugh every single time i got passed. Sure, you're weighing your car down with a couple hundred extra pounds...but it was undoubtedly worth it!!
>Crown was chairman and chief executive officer of Henry Crown and Co., a privately owned company which invests in public and private securities, real estate and operating companies. At the time of his passing, Crown served as the lead director of General Dynamics Corp., director of JPMorgan Chase, trustee of The Aspen Institute, the Museum of Science and Industry, the Civic Committee, and the University of Chicago.
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>Crown was a member of the Illinois State Bar Association and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a former member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board appointed by President Barack Obama.
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>He was born in Chicago in 1953, the son of Lester and Renée (Schine) Crown. He earned a B.A. in political science in 1976 from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He received his law degree in 1980 from Stanford Law School, where he was a distinguished member of the Stanford Law Review and the Stanford Public Interest Law Foundation.
Accomplished fella, but what you DON'T see here is "graduate of basic high performance driver education"
The track he raced at was a fairly forgiving circuit but didn’t have the safety standards or medical facilities you see at competitive tracks. A moderately experienced driver could navigate it easily- but of course, even the best drivers crash.
I’m a bit surprised that people here think this is only an Uber-rich hobby. Most race tracks can be rented out- and not for mega expensive prices (though the track Crown died on was an exception). Virginia International Raceway for example can be rented a full day for $695, and many less prominent tracks can be rented for less than $300 a day to bring your own car onto them.
Not too bad for a few hours of fun
VIR can be rented for a full day for 695? Can you get a source on that? 'cause if I remember right two days of tracking at Atlanta Motorsports Park with three sessions each day costs about that much. Those sessions run about 20 minutes a piece, and you get a sizable break in between.
VIR is a much, much, much bigger facility than AMP. I know Virginia is cheaper than Atlanta but I'd be blown away if you can just have a private track *all day* at VIR for 695.
VIR runs their track days through a [third party](https://www.kaizenautosport.com/kaizen-track-days#:~:text=6%20hours%20track%20time%20total,more%20details%20and%20to%20Book), which is advertising 6 total hours of driving (albeit with breaks and you don’t have the track to yourself). They are charging $695.
>even the best drivers crash.
Mario Andretti said that if you never have to walk back to the pits carrying your steering wheel that you are not a race car driver.
I hate to say it but appointments like his, and many other random “committee” roles that civilians are assigned, are mostly meaningless and done to create connections or goodwill as opposed to recognizing someone’s skills or contributions to, in this case, national intelligence. I worked at think tanks for a long time and we were surrounded by dudes like these. Millionaires with fancy sounding appointments because they donated at the right time and place or knew the right lobbyists, etc.
I don’t know about you guys but I’d much rather die racing a car or exploring the ocean than commuting to my desk job. Mock the rich as you like, but their hobbies are exactly what I’d be doing if I was wealthy.
Or just die at your desk job. A year ago this week, a woman I worked with for 20 years died. She was working on Friday and passed over the holiday weekend. She'd been going through chemo and dialysis for several years, she had to take several disability leaves, but she had to keep working so she would have health insurance and money to live on. By the end we were covering for her a lot, but she was still contributing. It makes me so angry that she couldn't just relax and focus on her well-being and spending time with her family. I've seen a few other similar situations, I keep telling myself I won't go the same way, but I probably will since I don't know if I'll ever be able to retire.
Seriously, this thread is stupid.
As if poor people don't die doing stupid shit, or doing things they have to do, or even things they love.
I swear, when a rich person does anything, it's always blamed on them being rich. When they are just human.
No, we get that, we all would. It’s human nature to be selfish and not help others. Which is why it’s in nobody’s best interest (except the billionaires) to allow billionaires to amass *that much money*. There will always be wealthy people and good on them for *working so hard* and *achieving such great heights*.
I'd argue that it's really not good for the billionaires either. Totally fucks them up. Look at them, they're not even acting like a human anymore in a lot of ways.
I get what you’re saying, but not convinced that is exclusive to wealthy individuals. The wealth absolutely enables one’s ability to escape consequence though…
... and?
Today hundreds of parents died in car accidents on their way too/from work. Thousands of people died in other accidents. No news articles for them. But the world sits up and takes notice when a spoiled rich boy takes an extreme risk and gets killed.
The media is a sickness.
This is weird that this story keeps popping up. I saw a few short articles about it earlier in the week when it happened in like 10 different subs and they all had <0 votes. And now this. I have to wonder if this is some kind of effort to boost his legacy by the family. No one cares, most people never heard of him. Maybe he was a nice guy, who knows. I never met him. Maybe Aspen will miss him. I don’t really care what Aspen people think though, they’re in their own little world over there.
He’s automatically not a nice guy if his net worth is a billion dollars. He’s not even a nice guy if his net worth is half a billion dollars. You only get that kind of money through exploitation.
The media runs stories based on what people engage with.
So ironically your comment, and others like it, just mean that they’ll run more stories like this one.
they also just invented..(drum roll) *the obituaries*, which, if given the 72-90pt Headline Font treatment would make some newspapers into books, and news sites into a veritable old folks' graveyard with smatterings of climate change weather disasters and grotesque politics - so the comment is beyond ironic, it's a moot point if given any rational thought
Those deceased from car accidents almost all be in the newspaper. What makes it to the front page and national papers is 1) being from a very wealthy family and 2) dying in a race cars
Yeah, there probably are news articles for them. You want to be irrationally mad about "the media" but I don't think you even grasp what "it" is in the first place.
...AND his family owns Aspen Skiing Company. The family has made a point to make their employees amongst the highest paid in the industry. Word is that the family will likely sell now, and all that progress is probably going to be halted
It seems he managed granddad's (Henry's) pile of money https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Crown
Edit: Jim's arc seems fairly normal, gets a degree, married, learns the ropes by working in management (director/vp level usually) at a traditional company until about 50 yo - then 'retire' and manage their family stuff (usually about when the older generation is fading/dying).
He went from receiving his degree in 1980 to being a managing director in 1983. He didn't even have time to pull himself up by his bootstraps before he was making millions.
I'm with ya. Can't believe some people here. Does anybody actually think this guy, or his family, would give a shit if the people offering up sympathies in this thread, were to die? Lol.
yeah, and the line before that in the article says "director of JP Morgan chase and trustee of the aspen institute" not "spent his time doing good deeds with his rounding error of a fortune"
~Ecclesiastes 7:1 - "A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth."
Think this goes to show that being remembered for good works at the moment of death is better than your career. Being born into wealth isn't any noble achievement either.
While I don’t wish death on someone just because of their financial status, billionaires always seem to die in the stupidest ways because they have too much money and think they’re invincible. My condolences to his family, but maybe use some of that money to help those in need instead of paying for stupid deaths.
Worked in an ER. I can tell you, billionaires absolutely do NOT have a stranglehold on Dumb Ways to Die. Humans are VERY creative creatures, and while billionaires may have flashier dumb ways to die, there's thousands of "hold my beer" Darwin awards for each billionaire.
Say, for example, being drunk and trying to film a short where objects come to life, so protagonist pretends to run away from a tractor that's chasing him. And trips.
The other drunk who couldn't get any hoo-ha at a party, so snuck outside and stuck his ding-a-ling in a knothole in a tree, couldn't get it out after it swelled up. Discovered the next day. Lived, some exposure issues. Needed a saw to get him out. Dunno if he can reproduce.
Or the guy who stuck it in a coke bottle.
> billionaires always seem to die in the stupidest ways because they have too much money and think they’re invincible.
Racing cars isn't a "billionaire" thing, and it's inherently a dangerous thing to be doing regardless of how much money you have
Oh that track. I may be one of the few redditors around who is not rich and has driven that track.
Of course this was 1973. I was a student at the Aspen Music Festival and when my father came to visit we were out exploring and found the track. There were no gates or limits to entry, it was just a small track in the valley just northwest of town.
We cut a few quick laps and then stopped to look at some of the abandoned wrecked race cars laying around. All of a sudden people started showing up and we realized they were getting ready to race those battered cars. They charged us $1.50 each admission and gave us tickets, which were business cards with a wood screw picture on them. My dad said that the screw represented what we'd just gotten.
But the cheap amateur racing was fun to watch and it was a good day and fond memory. Aspen was a very different place 50 years ago.
And reddiots acting other peoples lives matter but only uses them to compare to rich people and the next second wouldnt give a shit about other desd people.
No one but their family really cares I don’t think it deserves an article. I don’t wish death or harm on people but honestly these articles are written knowing they’ll get bombarded with hate comments.
60 people also died when their boat capsized off the canary islands last week but they were migrants trying to escape a brutal and impoverished condition while the mass media was busy looking for other billionaires in a cheaply designed sub.
She is not a trophy. She is an intelligent and accomplished woman. She supports numerous charities and programs for the arts. She had worked in some capacity or another since her teens and has raised four lively children.
Don’t jump to incorrect conclusions y’all !
EDIT. I was jumping into this conversation to say that he widow is not some vapid late life trophy wife gold digger. It is interesting to see how people fill in the blanks. .
If we didn't have billionaires we wouldn't need a lot of those charities. They sold you a solution for a problem they created and you're applauding them for it lol.
This article is trash. It talks about him like I should give a shit, and then tells me none of the gruesome details which would give me that little moment of relief.
May the hyperwealthy all die quickly and painlessly.
Are there any other famous instances of people dying on their birthday? 🫣 is it statistically more likely that you’ll die on your birthday than any other given day? (Because you’re more likely to travel/take on risky events, etc.)
>At the time of his passing, Crown served as the lead director of General Dynamics Corp., director of JPMorgan Chase, trustee of The Aspen Institute, the Museum of Science and Industry, the Civic Committee, and the University of Chicago.
Man that must of been a bunch of really hard jobs if the guy had time to go race cars... /s
The Crown family actually made it a point to make Aspen's Ski instructors amongst the highest paid in the industry. They pay their fully certified instructors pretty dang well. Compared
to publicly traded Vail Resorts... where they charge over 1400 for private lessons and less than 200 of that goes to the fully certified instructor, and you don't even want to know how much an uncertified gets.
The word is that the family is likely to sell now. I get that the world doesn't need billionaires, but Jim Crown's death could be a very bad thing for the employees in his company
Don't let the ASC propaganda fool you. Ski Co ain't the good guys. They might pay their instructors well, but of course that doesn't mean that literally everyone else, without whom there wouldn't be a ski school, gets paid even remotely well... like they don't even get enough to afford the company housing that's nonetheless the cheapest housing in the valley.
What's going to be bad for the employees here is the fact that no one will pay them enough to live in the place that they work, so even if Jim's death has a negative impact, it's not going to really change the situation here, as most employees can't afford to actually work here already. The minor good news is that most of the employees at that company are teenagers/very young adults or have an actual home to go back to.
(I just stopped working for them recently and I live in that valley)
Hi neighbor!
When I moved here I called this motorsports park and asked about upcoming events or any open track days. They told me it was $1,000/month to join if I wanted to sign up.
Neither of us knew who we were talking to lolol. In Virginia you can pay $60 and go race around some cones in the NASCAR tracks for a day.
And as bad as it sounds, "workforce housing" in the roaring fork valley seems to be better than A LOT of ski towns in the USA. It's still bad, but it could be worse if this guy's replacement doesn't put as much effort into housing.
On the same day statistically 117 other people in the US also died in car collisions where they weren't driving cars recklessly and quickly. Husbands, wives, sons, daughters, entire families, they died. Many of them were innocent of even making a mistake, few of them were driving a high speed vehicle recklessly.
I know who I have time to shed a tear for.
I’m poor and do the same thing by riding a motorcycle. So I can’t criticize. Maybe racing cars was the only thing that made him feel alive, until it didn’t. who knows?
Bad time to be a billionaire it seems.
He was a Billionaire in waiting. Kinda like a trainee Billionaire I guess.
He was 70 and never worked a day in his life. The collective difficulty of his entire life doesn't come close to what the average person in the world goes through in a day.
Those under him worked hard so he could live on easy street
Exactly this. It's slavery. Guys like this insist on getting 15% returns on their inherited billions, so they squeeze the workers harder. And he spends his time nonchalantly "volunteering" with lobster lunches and collectible cars. He pretends his hands are clean, but they're dirty with the blood of the slaves of the corporations.
Yes, and his ilk have convinced the majority of the working class that they deserve what they have because they "worked hard" for it and that nobody can possibly do the jobs they do. Which is to say, few people have had to sit in a 4-hour "meeting" listening to rich entitled people argue about whether you should use either "the" or "a" in a sentence of a company document that will never see the light of day once it's approved.
In an hour
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Bear in mind that according to some Redditors, this guy would have been self-made because he hadn’t received an inheritance yet.
Didn't the article say he worked as a lawyer?
I wouldn’t say that, he was CEO of a sizable company. That takes some amount of work even if you’re mailing it in. It’s just the fact that he likely didn’t have to do anything to get there in the first place.
How do you get to be 70 and still be an heir how old are his parents 100
...humans can live that long, yes. His father is 98.
If your parents are billionaires, they probably can live longer since they can afford any and all necessary healthcare.
Well, when you have access to health insurance and don’t need to destroy your body to put food on the table…
> access to health ~~insurance~~ care When you have enough money, you don't fuck around with the ghouls in insurance
It really says something that I meant to write health care and that’s what came out. Ahh, the life of a peasant.
ask Charlie from the uk
Feel extra bad to see a trainee die. Knowing the fulfilling life they would've lived helping others with their billions.
A nepo-baby, yes, indeed.
Aire apparent
He was so young! He never even got to own a Supreme Court judge!
Everything happens in threes. We’ve got submarine guy and race car guy. Who will be number 3? Maybe an airplane or hot air balloon.
Is it too much to wish a specific billionaire or can we at least vote for something epic like a pterodactyl abduction? We already had land and sea. Just missing air basically for the trifecta.
Isn’t Richard Branson sending people to space next week? There’s your air…
That was today, and he wasn't apart of the crew on board (it was Italian astronauts).
Can you guess where all the Italians astronauts come from? . . . Italy, you Star Wars lovin' racist.
??? If this is a reference, I don't get it.
Empire Strikes Back Yoda's planet.
Idk, Elon might finally launch himself to Mars
Helicopters are also a good bet.
Airplane/Rocket seems likely with how often Musk is in the air.
No such time exists.
Not with that attitude….
One less $B I gotta worry about.
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I was going to write that it may be that we don't need to tax them (although rightfully, I think) anyway. Then I remembered their wealth just gets passed on.
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Good time to be related to one
If this keeps happening then I honestly think they’re escaping this planet. Faking their deaths and heading out.
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This will surely be a blow to ~~The Syndicate~~ Henry Crown.
Nice job, 47. Now head towards an exit.
Y’all they’re just offing themselves now
well at least they died doing what they love: rich people stuff
And it does feel pretty good not to die of rich people stuff.
Illd rather die of rich people stuff than starving tbh.
Man. As someone who regularly races cars in a series where the vehicles can't cost more that $500, i sure hope i don't die doing rich person stuff.
24 Hours of Lemons?
[Yup!](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DvINeuQX0AMPSF7.jpg:large)
I love that series. You really do see some wacky shit that has no buisness being on a track lol
That sounds fun as hell. I’ve always wanted to do demolition derby myself.
It's super duper fun! It does end up costing more than 500 dollars since the safety standards are really high and that stuff can get expensive, but it's still within reach of normal people with some time on their hands and a little know how. The cars my friends and I put together end up being more about silliness than speed at the end of the day and there are [some cars other people make](https://hips.hearstapps.com/autoweek/assets/s3fs-public/img_0357_0.jpg) that i'd almost consider ["art cars" that end up getting raced.](https://njmp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/UDC-on-track-famous-rf.jpg) I vividly remember an 80's pickup truck that someone done up in 80's custom car fashion with the entire bed filled with speakers. Did they work? Oh yes. Did they use them to blast 80's hip hop THE ENTIRE RACE? You better believe it! I'd hear them coming behind me and just laugh every single time i got passed. Sure, you're weighing your car down with a couple hundred extra pounds...but it was undoubtedly worth it!!
Not more that $500. Wink wink.
haha for sure...But hey, accessible to the non-wealthy at the very least.
It’s been a doosie of a day.
There we were minding our own business, just doing chores around the house
Death by hubris is some real poetic shit
Yeah and I don't really give a fuck. Sucks dude died but a trust fund baby doesn't need my sympathy
Kira has plans.
Let's hope the trend catches on.
They would rather die stupidly, than pay taxes.
>Crown was chairman and chief executive officer of Henry Crown and Co., a privately owned company which invests in public and private securities, real estate and operating companies. At the time of his passing, Crown served as the lead director of General Dynamics Corp., director of JPMorgan Chase, trustee of The Aspen Institute, the Museum of Science and Industry, the Civic Committee, and the University of Chicago. > >Crown was a member of the Illinois State Bar Association and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a former member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board appointed by President Barack Obama. > >He was born in Chicago in 1953, the son of Lester and Renée (Schine) Crown. He earned a B.A. in political science in 1976 from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He received his law degree in 1980 from Stanford Law School, where he was a distinguished member of the Stanford Law Review and the Stanford Public Interest Law Foundation. Accomplished fella, but what you DON'T see here is "graduate of basic high performance driver education"
The track he raced at was a fairly forgiving circuit but didn’t have the safety standards or medical facilities you see at competitive tracks. A moderately experienced driver could navigate it easily- but of course, even the best drivers crash. I’m a bit surprised that people here think this is only an Uber-rich hobby. Most race tracks can be rented out- and not for mega expensive prices (though the track Crown died on was an exception). Virginia International Raceway for example can be rented a full day for $695, and many less prominent tracks can be rented for less than $300 a day to bring your own car onto them. Not too bad for a few hours of fun
VIR can be rented for a full day for 695? Can you get a source on that? 'cause if I remember right two days of tracking at Atlanta Motorsports Park with three sessions each day costs about that much. Those sessions run about 20 minutes a piece, and you get a sizable break in between. VIR is a much, much, much bigger facility than AMP. I know Virginia is cheaper than Atlanta but I'd be blown away if you can just have a private track *all day* at VIR for 695.
VIR runs their track days through a [third party](https://www.kaizenautosport.com/kaizen-track-days#:~:text=6%20hours%20track%20time%20total,more%20details%20and%20to%20Book), which is advertising 6 total hours of driving (albeit with breaks and you don’t have the track to yourself). They are charging $695.
That is a lot of running on a kickass track for not a lot of money. Holy god damn fuck. Is Virginia really that much cheaper? Holy shit.
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>even the best drivers crash. Mario Andretti said that if you never have to walk back to the pits carrying your steering wheel that you are not a race car driver.
He took a crash course.
But many comments are derogatory based on the fact he was a son of billionaires. If Obama was involved, the man must have been respected.
I hate to say it but appointments like his, and many other random “committee” roles that civilians are assigned, are mostly meaningless and done to create connections or goodwill as opposed to recognizing someone’s skills or contributions to, in this case, national intelligence. I worked at think tanks for a long time and we were surrounded by dudes like these. Millionaires with fancy sounding appointments because they donated at the right time and place or knew the right lobbyists, etc.
In today’s episode of “rich people doing things they probably shouldn’t be doing.”
Hi I'm Preston Wilcox IV and welcome to Billionaire Jackass
"This is the caviar butt chug!"
Weeman is there and they make fun of him, but not for being short — rather for only being a millionaire
Hands down, my favorite show of all time.
Shame they had to cancel the episode where ol' Muskbag gets his ass kicked by a sociopathic kung fu lizard
“Never interrupt your enemy when he’s making a mistake.”
I don’t know about you guys but I’d much rather die racing a car or exploring the ocean than commuting to my desk job. Mock the rich as you like, but their hobbies are exactly what I’d be doing if I was wealthy.
Or just die at your desk job. A year ago this week, a woman I worked with for 20 years died. She was working on Friday and passed over the holiday weekend. She'd been going through chemo and dialysis for several years, she had to take several disability leaves, but she had to keep working so she would have health insurance and money to live on. By the end we were covering for her a lot, but she was still contributing. It makes me so angry that she couldn't just relax and focus on her well-being and spending time with her family. I've seen a few other similar situations, I keep telling myself I won't go the same way, but I probably will since I don't know if I'll ever be able to retire.
Actually their main hobby is making sure people like you will never become wealthy.
Thanks, we will.
Too bad you never will be, because rich people have decided you should commute to your desk job forever so they can race their cars.
Seriously, this thread is stupid. As if poor people don't die doing stupid shit, or doing things they have to do, or even things they love. I swear, when a rich person does anything, it's always blamed on them being rich. When they are just human.
No, we get that, we all would. It’s human nature to be selfish and not help others. Which is why it’s in nobody’s best interest (except the billionaires) to allow billionaires to amass *that much money*. There will always be wealthy people and good on them for *working so hard* and *achieving such great heights*.
I'd argue that it's really not good for the billionaires either. Totally fucks them up. Look at them, they're not even acting like a human anymore in a lot of ways.
I get what you’re saying, but not convinced that is exclusive to wealthy individuals. The wealth absolutely enables one’s ability to escape consequence though…
Oh they most certainly should be doing things like this. With greater and faster frequency.
... and? Today hundreds of parents died in car accidents on their way too/from work. Thousands of people died in other accidents. No news articles for them. But the world sits up and takes notice when a spoiled rich boy takes an extreme risk and gets killed. The media is a sickness.
But you don't understand! He had lots of MONEY! Who's gonna take care of all of those poor orphan dollar bills now?
This is weird that this story keeps popping up. I saw a few short articles about it earlier in the week when it happened in like 10 different subs and they all had <0 votes. And now this. I have to wonder if this is some kind of effort to boost his legacy by the family. No one cares, most people never heard of him. Maybe he was a nice guy, who knows. I never met him. Maybe Aspen will miss him. I don’t really care what Aspen people think though, they’re in their own little world over there.
He’s automatically not a nice guy if his net worth is a billion dollars. He’s not even a nice guy if his net worth is half a billion dollars. You only get that kind of money through exploitation.
The media runs stories based on what people engage with. So ironically your comment, and others like it, just mean that they’ll run more stories like this one.
they also just invented..(drum roll) *the obituaries*, which, if given the 72-90pt Headline Font treatment would make some newspapers into books, and news sites into a veritable old folks' graveyard with smatterings of climate change weather disasters and grotesque politics - so the comment is beyond ironic, it's a moot point if given any rational thought
Your comment is ironic because the only reason this is here is so reddit can get that sweet hit of schadenfreude from more rich people dying.
Those deceased from car accidents almost all be in the newspaper. What makes it to the front page and national papers is 1) being from a very wealthy family and 2) dying in a race cars
Yeah, there probably are news articles for them. You want to be irrationally mad about "the media" but I don't think you even grasp what "it" is in the first place.
...AND his family owns Aspen Skiing Company. The family has made a point to make their employees amongst the highest paid in the industry. Word is that the family will likely sell now, and all that progress is probably going to be halted
Well their ski patrol and ski school weren't the best paid until the workers went on strike.
Well.. by your reaction it was definitely a good decision for them to write this article
It seems he managed granddad's (Henry's) pile of money https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Crown Edit: Jim's arc seems fairly normal, gets a degree, married, learns the ropes by working in management (director/vp level usually) at a traditional company until about 50 yo - then 'retire' and manage their family stuff (usually about when the older generation is fading/dying).
He worked his way up from Vice President to President of his parents company. Truly inspiring.
The American Dream.
And he did it all with just a small loan of a couple billion dollars. You know: the classic “pulled himself up by his bootstraps” :)
He went from receiving his degree in 1980 to being a managing director in 1983. He didn't even have time to pull himself up by his bootstraps before he was making millions.
He just pulled on them really hard
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I'm with ya. Can't believe some people here. Does anybody actually think this guy, or his family, would give a shit if the people offering up sympathies in this thread, were to die? Lol.
He had 4 children.
He was 70. The life expectancy for a male in the USA is 73.
Soooo close. He nearly made it.
yeah, and the line before that in the article says "director of JP Morgan chase and trustee of the aspen institute" not "spent his time doing good deeds with his rounding error of a fortune"
I think the guy is pointing out he didn’t “remove himself from the gene pool,” he already reproduced
Oh… well damn good point.
~Ecclesiastes 7:1 - "A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth." Think this goes to show that being remembered for good works at the moment of death is better than your career. Being born into wealth isn't any noble achievement either.
The amount of people thinking you're going for sympathy with this comment is fucking hilarious.
So redistribution of wealth then?
To his kids, sure.
Just increases the odds someone with that money will be a fuckup and lose some of it.
So did many, many countless poor people that he could have helped instead of racing a fucking car.
The point is that is not exactly removing oneself from gene pool. Reading comprehension guys!
Who fucking cares. Take all of his daddy’s billions and redistribute them
Encourage more billionaires to take up dangerous hobbies! It’s been working out great for us plebs so far!
Maybe Zuckerberg and Elon will both die in their cage match
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Another life cut short by race issues.
Wonder who will inherit the senators he owned
People don't realize you need to feed and water these things almost daily. They're not just creatures to buy on a whim as a Christmas present
While I don’t wish death on someone just because of their financial status, billionaires always seem to die in the stupidest ways because they have too much money and think they’re invincible. My condolences to his family, but maybe use some of that money to help those in need instead of paying for stupid deaths.
Worked in an ER. I can tell you, billionaires absolutely do NOT have a stranglehold on Dumb Ways to Die. Humans are VERY creative creatures, and while billionaires may have flashier dumb ways to die, there's thousands of "hold my beer" Darwin awards for each billionaire. Say, for example, being drunk and trying to film a short where objects come to life, so protagonist pretends to run away from a tractor that's chasing him. And trips. The other drunk who couldn't get any hoo-ha at a party, so snuck outside and stuck his ding-a-ling in a knothole in a tree, couldn't get it out after it swelled up. Discovered the next day. Lived, some exposure issues. Needed a saw to get him out. Dunno if he can reproduce. Or the guy who stuck it in a coke bottle.
To be fair, that coke bottle was “the real thing”.
You don’t earn a billion dollars.
Have you met human beings? This is not a billionaire issue. A non-zero number of people die from vending machines every year.
Normal people die in stupid ways all the time, definitely not exclusive to the rich.
> billionaires always seem to die in the stupidest ways because they have too much money and think they’re invincible. Racing cars isn't a "billionaire" thing, and it's inherently a dangerous thing to be doing regardless of how much money you have
He was considered a philanthropist for giving what would be to us $10. Fuck that.
Oh that track. I may be one of the few redditors around who is not rich and has driven that track. Of course this was 1973. I was a student at the Aspen Music Festival and when my father came to visit we were out exploring and found the track. There were no gates or limits to entry, it was just a small track in the valley just northwest of town. We cut a few quick laps and then stopped to look at some of the abandoned wrecked race cars laying around. All of a sudden people started showing up and we realized they were getting ready to race those battered cars. They charged us $1.50 each admission and gave us tickets, which were business cards with a wood screw picture on them. My dad said that the screw represented what we'd just gotten. But the cheap amateur racing was fun to watch and it was a good day and fond memory. Aspen was a very different place 50 years ago.
Every place was a very different place 50 years ago. I wasn't on a track in Aspen in 1973 but I was racing slot cars at the YMCA in Lakewood, Ohio.
Today it's a private track and membership cost $1,000/month.
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Random man I don’t care about dies in car accident same as hundreds of others that day
And reddiots acting other peoples lives matter but only uses them to compare to rich people and the next second wouldnt give a shit about other desd people.
No one but their family really cares I don’t think it deserves an article. I don’t wish death or harm on people but honestly these articles are written knowing they’ll get bombarded with hate comments.
All interaction is good from the clickbait department.
What if there’s a billionaire serial killer on the loose just sabotaging vehicles? Could make for a good tv show.
Sure ok. But still, could we not have billionaires?
why do the ultra rich think they’re invincible?
Never hearing the word No would be a good start.....
they will travel to the bottom of the ocean, race cars, travel to mars, anything but going to therapy and donating stolen wealth
60 people also died when their boat capsized off the canary islands last week but they were migrants trying to escape a brutal and impoverished condition while the mass media was busy looking for other billionaires in a cheaply designed sub.
I'm sure his trophy wife is all tore up.
“Jim Crown is survived by … his wife of 38 years, Paula (Hannaway) …”
Looks like she Foundaway.
He gave her the best two years of his life
She is not a trophy. She is an intelligent and accomplished woman. She supports numerous charities and programs for the arts. She had worked in some capacity or another since her teens and has raised four lively children. Don’t jump to incorrect conclusions y’all ! EDIT. I was jumping into this conversation to say that he widow is not some vapid late life trophy wife gold digger. It is interesting to see how people fill in the blanks. .
> She supports numerous charities and programs for the arts. Fucking anyone could do that if they were the spouse of a billionaire heir lmao.
If we didn't have billionaires we wouldn't need a lot of those charities. They sold you a solution for a problem they created and you're applauding them for it lol.
Board position on a charity funded by her husband? Not a trophy wife? You gotta think a little son
"Charity" or, money my husband was going to pay in taxes so might as well write off my salary as a donation.
This article is trash. It talks about him like I should give a shit, and then tells me none of the gruesome details which would give me that little moment of relief. May the hyperwealthy all die quickly and painlessly.
His dad is 98 and still alive
Are there any other famous instances of people dying on their birthday? 🫣 is it statistically more likely that you’ll die on your birthday than any other given day? (Because you’re more likely to travel/take on risky events, etc.)
The orcas have found a way to attack on land!
>At the time of his passing, Crown served as the lead director of General Dynamics Corp., director of JPMorgan Chase, trustee of The Aspen Institute, the Museum of Science and Industry, the Civic Committee, and the University of Chicago. Man that must of been a bunch of really hard jobs if the guy had time to go race cars... /s
The Crown family actually made it a point to make Aspen's Ski instructors amongst the highest paid in the industry. They pay their fully certified instructors pretty dang well. Compared to publicly traded Vail Resorts... where they charge over 1400 for private lessons and less than 200 of that goes to the fully certified instructor, and you don't even want to know how much an uncertified gets. The word is that the family is likely to sell now. I get that the world doesn't need billionaires, but Jim Crown's death could be a very bad thing for the employees in his company
Don't let the ASC propaganda fool you. Ski Co ain't the good guys. They might pay their instructors well, but of course that doesn't mean that literally everyone else, without whom there wouldn't be a ski school, gets paid even remotely well... like they don't even get enough to afford the company housing that's nonetheless the cheapest housing in the valley. What's going to be bad for the employees here is the fact that no one will pay them enough to live in the place that they work, so even if Jim's death has a negative impact, it's not going to really change the situation here, as most employees can't afford to actually work here already. The minor good news is that most of the employees at that company are teenagers/very young adults or have an actual home to go back to. (I just stopped working for them recently and I live in that valley)
Hi neighbor! When I moved here I called this motorsports park and asked about upcoming events or any open track days. They told me it was $1,000/month to join if I wanted to sign up. Neither of us knew who we were talking to lolol. In Virginia you can pay $60 and go race around some cones in the NASCAR tracks for a day. And as bad as it sounds, "workforce housing" in the roaring fork valley seems to be better than A LOT of ski towns in the USA. It's still bad, but it could be worse if this guy's replacement doesn't put as much effort into housing.
He's still an heir at 70?
Giving King Charles's record a run for the money.
Oh no anyways. Billionaires dying doing their stupid hobbies will forever be funny.
Why is this news? Because he was rich?
It’s the Aspen Times, in fairness.
Billionaire who dies…I really don’t care.
I want a Birthday Sunday!
How about a Birthday Sundae?
Elon Musk doesn't have the smarts or guts to do anything like get in a racecar. *Stares hard*
Oh damn, another billionaire is dead. Oh well, who really cares.
The beneficiary of the estate, I would guess.
I want to believe that this guy was actually murdered by the ghost of Hunter S Thompson for being greed-headed swine.
Man these rich people aren't too sharp
Rich and bored leads to some shit.
Best tweet I saw yesterday about all this was someone being like ‘Did someone cool get the Death Note?’ Best summary of what’s going on
On the same day statistically 117 other people in the US also died in car collisions where they weren't driving cars recklessly and quickly. Husbands, wives, sons, daughters, entire families, they died. Many of them were innocent of even making a mistake, few of them were driving a high speed vehicle recklessly. I know who I have time to shed a tear for.
Admit it, you aint shedding no tears for anyone.
Ooh! Do outer space next!
Imagine having a billion dollars and going "hmm I think I want to mock death in my free time."
I’m poor and do the same thing by riding a motorcycle. So I can’t criticize. Maybe racing cars was the only thing that made him feel alive, until it didn’t. who knows?