Meet the latest way the superrich prove they’re really, totally worried about the environment: $10 million electric superyachts::Electric cars? The superrich have already moved on to electric yachts.

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    1 year ago

    I disagree, but I also don’t have a problem with people or companies being wealthy enough to make or own them, either.

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        1 year ago

        “Hey! This guy believes people should be allowed to own nice things that they enjoy! Get him!”

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          Of course people should be allowed to own nice things that they enjoy.

          The problem is that these specific people are only able to afford these specific nice things because of economic systems that are based on hundreds of millions of people not being able to afford any nice things in life, ever.

          Not that I’m specifically blaming multimillionaires and billionaires for the shortcomings of global economy systems.

          They have just benefitted from them in the same way other people are suffering from them.

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          1 year ago

          Does ecosystem carrying capacity overshoot ring a bell? Individual footprint matters, especially if massively oversized.

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              10 MUSD boats made from graphite epoxy composite and quite a few tons of lithium batteries. And the support infrastructure. And the sum of activities on the cruise. Plus other stuff people who buy such trinkets engage in.

              There are peer reviewed publications quantifying that, with some surprising numbers in them. The golden billion has an outsized footprint, but the elites have a hockey stick shaped contribution distribution there.

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        See communist China for a primer on why it’s not a great idea to discourage success.

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          See fascist America for a primer on why it’s not a good to make success dependent on economic upbringing.

          Also if your idea of success is a multi million dollar yacht, than 99.99% of us will never be successful by that metric, so why want to uphold it.

        • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works
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          They literally have the world’s biggest economy and the second most amount of billionaires on the planet behind the US. I don’t think monetary success is being discouraged over there like you think it is.