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[–] 59 points 10 months ago

Yes. They can just take their private jet to where there is water.

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  • [–] 30 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    ~1500 sea-going yachts registered in Switzerland, so I'd say yes.

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  • [–] 28 points 10 months ago

    The yacht crowd isn't really concerned with national borders.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago

    The occasional landlocked country has lakes too.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    They mostly rent them. Yachts are so expensive to run that they're not worth it for a mere millionaire.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    Wait you can rent them?

    Hmm I kinda wanna cosplay as a rich person for a day lol

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    You can rent anything if you have the money. Private plane, mansion, island, whole cruise ship, super cars, trip to space, trip in a submarine. I'm sure there must even be places that will let you use rent/use old military equipment like driving and possibly firing old tanks, etc.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Yes, I work in commercial insurance and we wrote the insurance for an entire portfolio of a family owned private equity. The father at the head of it owned multiple yachts and ran a side business renting them out when he didn't use them. It essentially just made them cheaper to own.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    So basically the rich guys own a yacht, and to recoup on the cost he rents it out to the mega rich who can afford to even when not used not to have to bother with maintenance and such.

    I bet the yacht owner thinks he's poor.

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    [–] 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Absolutely. They just take planes (and/or sometimes helicopters) to them.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    The Swarovskis my friend worked for exclusively took helicopters to France and England. No idea why.

    They'd sometimes do that for dinner and a sleepover.

    Edited with additional information: They took their helicopter because it meant no airport hassle, not even transfer to some shitty airport. You just fuckin' fly from where you are.
    That's actually insane.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago*

    Had a rich girlfriend for a while. At one point her dad grounded her, litterally. Revoked access to use the family jet(s) (they owned one, but prefered to use a private company that would just have them wheels up from anywhere to anywhere in like an hour, without all the hassle of maintenance schedules, pilot vacation days, etc.) She was in her 30s and had complete meltdown over it. She even refused to go to their house on fisher's island for christmass because she wouldnt fly first class. So we had to throw our own party in town, with like 60k worth of catering for 10 guests.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    people with yachts tend to have multiple houses and super convenient ways to go between them. "Just fly to the house near the yacht, what's the problem, you pleb? Ugh poor people wonder why they're poor, yet doing anything is always a problem for them. Ugh, can't wait for the lay offs."

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    For rich people, it's not about using it or making a practical purchase. Its a way to show others how much you care about them (none).

    It's the yacht that counts.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    For rich people, it’s not about using it or making a practical purchase. Its a way to show others how much you care about them (none).

    I was thinking about this topic just a few days ago. I have another theory. Yes, yacht ownership is a method of communication, but they're not trying to communicate with the common people, but instead indicating to each other of their level of wealth so they can find equal peers or greater peers to associate with, or greater to avoid.

    A rich person with $10M net worth has almost nothing in common with a rich person with a $1B net worth.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    even if their country has a port that doesn't mean they keep their yacht there. better to fly to a Carribian island where the weather is nice than keep it near home and spend all that time sailing to where you want to be - boats are typically so slow that they would need to leave before they get there. If you want the yacht is some port you have the crew move it there and then you fly to it.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Kanye West lives in Wyoming.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    And even if they didn't, their wealth still has to be taxed.

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