As Titanic started to send distress messages, the lifeboats onboard were found to have space for just 1,178 while the ship carried 2,223 passengers. For the 710 third-class passengers, most of whom were poor immigrants seeking new life in the United States, the ticket was around $40. The 329 first-class passengers enjoyed Turkish baths, a heated swimming pool, a gymnasium and spacious decks. Said to be “unsinkable” by its owners, The White Star Company, then the world’s biggest luxury liner, Titanic had three classes of travel. These five men onboard added to the tragic tally of 1.517 passengers onboard Titanic who perished after the vessel steaming at 21 knots across Atlantic crashed into an iceberg and sank on April 14, 1912. The four passengers on Titan paid $250,000 each to descend 12,500 feet below the surface just to witness the corroded wreckage of luxury liner, Titanic. It read, “We are here because you were there”. But were they not complicit in the US led wars the destabilization and destruction of humanity in Middle East, Africa, Afghanistan or other regions? Years back a third generation settler in the United States shared with this scribe an inscription on a poster he claimed to have seen during an immigrants protest in London. The enduring chaos that followed caused internal conflicts, destabilized regions and resulted in unprecedented flow of displaced people to Europe and elsewhere European governments don’t want any further immigrants.

The uncalled for wars by the West at the onset of this century and unilateral military interventions in parts of the world did incalculable harm to mankind. It has spawned enormous inequalities snatching away hope from millions. Capitalism, industrialization and globalization have not brought comfort but rather misery to a vast majority of homo-sapiens on planet.

The dissimilarity provides a glimpse of the vastly unequal world we live in. Onboard the first were hundreds, between 400 and 750, despairing migrants, on the latter, only five men, three of them multi-millionaires.

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