"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.
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there doesn't seem to be anything here
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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.
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Anytime now the trickle down is gonna start, trust /s
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It’s not “somehow” - the real economy is tanking precisely because the oligarchs have got so efficient at skimming the top off.
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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.
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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
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Missed the word “sales” the first time and thought “hell yeah”, then re-read it and was just disappointed.
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Paywalled article. Though I suppose that's an apt meta-Boring Dystopia detail.
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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
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I don't know guys. Do you think we could get to the bottom of this?
VOTE
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I wish the yachts themselves were exploding.
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Manufactured economic crisises are designed for the rich to get richer. its not a side effect, its by design
Ukraine has gotten pretty good at flying drones. Anyway, what's this post about?
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gabe newell the ceo of valve has an entire fleet of superyatchs
https://luxurylaunches.com/transport/gabe-newell-luxury-yachts.php
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Enslave the wealthy, make them work for us.
This brings the same energy as "somehow Palpatine returned." Come on, we all know how.
Where my orca homies?
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People selling all of their stuff to go live permanently on the ocean?
I know of at least one person with that plan
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Ehh, what else are they going to spend all that money on, improving society?
If I'm ever out in my 14' Lund fishing boat and I see one of those superyachts I'm gonna ram it!
One of the most interesting changes of the last 15 years has been the global public realizing that most international issues and conflicts are a series of pump-and-dump or rug-pull schemes to the benefit of the kind of assholes who can afford superyachts.
Funny how when the center of the economic bell curve collapses the extremes seem to rise.
Don't worry. They're actually research vessels. So it's all good.
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The latter can be directly linked to the former. It's called exploitation.
Yes it's a complete mystery. As the super wealthy get significantly more wealthy by squeezing every dollar out of everyone else, somehow they're able to afford ridiculous extravagances, like enormous floating mansions that have the carbon footprint of a small town.
People really need to work on taking the word "sales" out of that headline.
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Hopefully they all come equipped with oceangate subs.
Obviously what needs to happen is for the superyachts themselves to start exploding. Preferably with their owners still aboard.
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LOOOOOOL, "somehow".
Gabe Newell is doing just fine then. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanco
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