I've got a fever, and the only thing that will help is more yachts. It's been a through line since the inception of capitalism. What's something a rich Venetian merchant and Jeff Bezos have in common......they love a big boat.

I'm sure there's more stuff, like if you brought a 16th century Venetian merchant to the modern age it wouldn't be surprising if they developed a bimbo fetish.... But we absolutely know they'd lose their shit over a mega yacht.

We need sustainabilty. Capitalism is basically a cancer in this context.

The realistic issue is that collapse following a stalled economy just means strengthening the upper class. Poor get poorer, rich get richer. Need more Luigi.

When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another such that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder. But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, ... knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual; disguised, malicious murder, murder against which none can defend himself, which does not seem what it is, because no man sees the murderer, because the death of the victim seems a natural one, since the offence is more one of omission than of commission. But murder it remains.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_murder