I wish the yachts themselves were exploding.
Don't let our dreams be dreams
It’s not “somehow” - the real economy is tanking precisely because the oligarchs have got so efficient at skimming the top off.
Skimming the top, yeah, but the "top" is 99.99%.
somehow
VOTE
The suffering of millions is directly proportional to the wealth of the ultrawealthy. These things are not tangentially related. They are direct consequences of one another.
Yep. People can only be wealthy if the wealth is not distributed evenly.
They can only win if we lose.
I am tired of pretending I don't want to behead all billionaires.
Then stop. There's plenty of us that feel the same. Our community needs more people.
These things are terrible for the environment.
‘Megayachts’ are environmentally indefensible. The world must ban them: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/11/megayachts-environment-carbon-emissions-ban
We don’t need to ban them. They just need to be made to sink through a series of unfortunate events that are nobody’s fault at all.
And if the owners are aboard and are unable to escape the sinking, I’m sure that would be a tragedy, and absolutely nobody would be dancing in the streets over such an event.
Release the Orcas!
How odd. Its almost as if the insanely wealthy are getting richer at the expense of everyone else. Not to worry, they earned and deserve it through knuckling down. It'll trickle down anyway. It's not their fault. If anything it's the brown people risking their lives on unseaworthy craft that are to blame for everything being so expensive.
"Somehow" as if it's some great mystery and not because the 1% are siphoning off a bigger and bigger portion of the world's wealth. All to use for their own amusement while recklessly destroying the planet and sabotaging any attempts to do anything about it.
thier buying yachts like they are art pieces, its likely also laundering scheme.
Don't forget using them to hide somewhere out of reach when the peasants finally revolt.
If this happens, they better be damn sure the workers on the yacht have been paid and treated incredibly generously. It's not like these yachts are actually operated by the owners, and the crew are part of the working class.
Can't stay at sea forever, unfortunately for them.
gabe newell the ceo of valve has an entire fleet of superyatchs
https://luxurylaunches.com/transport/gabe-newell-luxury-yachts.php
Seems as good a place to start as any.
It should be pointed out he actually now owns Oceanco, the megayacht building company mentioned throughout that article
At first I saw that among his fleet of 6 ships, that he has a research vessel and a hospital vessel. I thought, "Ok, funding research and a fucking full on floating hospital that he can send to disasters and places in need. That would actually be pretty fucking cool."
But, then I kept reading "a full-fledged hospital, serving as a safeguard for the cruising billionaire during the COVID-19 pandemic". 🤦
It's a "support" vessel that follows his main yacht around in case he needs medical care.
his personal private hospital.
I like to think he has an elite crew of engies and demo guys to keep his fleet safe.
And to think it's the Rainbow Warrior that got mined and sunk
People selling all of their stuff to go live permanently on the ocean?
I know of at least one person with that plan
I wouldn’t mind it. Fish everyday, enjoy beautiful scenery, peace and quiet.
Ukraine has gotten pretty good at flying drones. Anyway, what's this post about?
Unfortunately the weapons they develop there will be used against us here.
They also have some good unmanned ground vehicles, and interestingly enough, unmanned sea drones
Tax their fucking wealth. We should be voting en masse for wealth taxes. They are just social parasites that extract wealth from the rest of the population while killing it. !twnw@fedia.io
Anytime now the trickle down is gonna start, trust /s
Just start working in the super yacht business.
just peddle accessories to superyachts and rich people will buy it,.
I live in Seattle. We have North America’s largest superyacht facility here: Delta Marine. Their starting pay ($22/hr) is less than the local burger place, Dick’s Drive In ($23/hr), and I swear to god I am not making any of this up.
rich people are biggest cheapskates if they get away with , it would be 0/hr.
This makes totally sense. Why should the workers in the field of work Which caters to people, who became rich by exploiting the working class, not also exploit the working class.
So clearly the solution is to ~~guillotine billionaires~~ become an exploiter yourself.
We are all going to get boats?
Manufactured economic crisises are designed for the rich to get richer. its not a side effect, its by design
Paywalled article. Though I suppose that's an apt meta-Boring Dystopia detail.
This brings the same energy as "somehow Palpatine returned." Come on, we all know how.
Don't worry. They're actually research vessels. So it's all good.
If I'm ever out in my 14' Lund fishing boat and I see one of those superyachts I'm gonna ram it!
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