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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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[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Amazing, a one sentence Gish gallop

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

They aren't all that communist anymore.