Funny how when the center of the economic bell curve collapses the extremes seem to rise.
“Somehow”
I don’t know guys. Do you think we could get to the bottom of this?
I wish the yachts themselves were exploding.
Don’t let our dreams be dreams
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.
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That is not true. That is the Zero Sum Game Theory they’re playing where one party takes all. What we need is to think more along the lines of Positive Sum, where all parties can win. Otherwise we’re just perpetuating a cycle of false scarcity and hoarding.
The problem is that the sum is positive, limited (with changing limits), and unknown. Everyone can benefit, but you can’t have everyone do better you still get everything you could possibly want. But you can get everything you could possibly want by keeping others from having enough, and since you can’t know the limit you can’t easily be held accountable
“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.
Don’t forget using them to hide somewhere out of reach when the peasants finally revolt.
That’s the real agenda.
They’ll run out of food and fresh water at some point. And have to come close enough for a drone firebombing or 2.
Can’t stay at sea forever, unfortunately for them.
That’s a bold hypothesis. Maybe we should test it, for science.
thier buying yachts like they are art pieces, its likely also laundering scheme.
I’m pretty sure all tagged are $300 million dollars, so that they can be traded at any time for that amount. They are just floating $300m bills.
they will probably gift one to trump eventually, remember that 400mil qatari plane that was too costly to maintain, and now cost 1.2bn to retrofit. probably give CLARENCE thomas a yacht, since he thinks epitome of being rich is a expensive RV.
I am tired of pretending I don’t want to behead all billionaires.
It’s so interesting that people can pretty easily be sold on the idea of starting a war that will kills tens of thousands of people based on geography that won’t really change much, but if you propose killing far fewer people in a move that will improve the quality of life for the majority of people on the planet suddenly you’re a monster.
I’d prefer a worse fate for them.
Say, working a “9-5” grind until they die like the rest of us to contribute to the society they live in instead of leeching from it.
Then stop. There’s plenty of us that feel the same. Our community needs more people.
That reminds me, I have to sharpen my guillotine.
Ehh, what else are they going to spend all that money on, improving society?
Where my orca homies?
Unfortunately these weren’t the types of yachts they were going after. They were, AFAIK, going for yachts under 50ft. I’ve known of people who have a 40ft boat as their home, so these are not the same type of people as the billionaires on super yachts
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.
Let’s Tricke It Down by just taking it back.
VOTE
And also get involved in local activism. Do something in your community. Elections alone won’t fix things. Vote for the least worst, but make that a small part of your political life.
How about we kill some billionaires along with it?
For millionaires.
Anytime now the trickle down is gonna start, trust /s
We are all going to get boats?
ai will give us all boats.
It’s getting close to the point that the only thing that needs to be tricking down, is blood. We’ll worry about the money after that. There should be plenty of leftover money with nobody to use it anymore. We can put it to good use.
gabe newell the ceo of valve has an entire fleet of superyatchs
https://luxurylaunches.com/transport/gabe-newell-luxury-yachts.php
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.
He’s create a fleet that he, his family, and his friends can escape to when the revolution comes, and Sociopathic Oligarch families start losing their heads.
He’s not the only one. When this is over, we will task a military outfit to hunt down superyachts, arrest the occupants, confiscate the yachts, or destroy them if they resist. With satellites, they shouldn’t be too hard to find.
I know Lemmy loves him, but if he’s got fleet of superyachts, he’s part of the problem.
his personal private hospital.
It’s odd how this particular multibillionaire often seems to be given a pass, just because he once left Microsoft to head up a company that made some good games.
PR campaigns are quite cheap for these people.
It should be pointed out he actually now owns Oceanco, the megayacht building company mentioned throughout that article
Looks like I could have gotten some points lol
Seems as good a place to start as any.
And to think it’s the Rainbow Warrior that got mined and sunk
I like to think he has an elite crew of engies and demo guys to keep his fleet safe.
somehow
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
Paywalled article. Though I suppose that’s an apt meta-Boring Dystopia detail.
