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[–] 139 points 1 month ago (10 children)

"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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  • [–] 36 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Don't forget using them to hide somewhere out of reach when the peasants finally revolt.

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    [–] 67 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 62 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    Anytime now the trickle down is gonna start, trust /s

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Just start working in the super yacht business.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I live in Seattle. We have North America’s largest superyacht facility here: Delta Marine. Their starting pay ($22/hr) is less than the local burger place, Dick’s Drive In ($23/hr), and I swear to god I am not making any of this up.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    This makes totally sense. Why should the workers in the field of work Which caters to people, who became rich by exploiting the working class, not also exploit the working class.

    So clearly the solution is to guillotine billionaires become an exploiter yourself.

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    [–] 61 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    I am tired of pretending I don't want to behead all billionaires.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    It's so interesting that people can pretty easily be sold on the idea of starting a war that will kills tens of thousands of people based on geography that won't really change much, but if you propose killing far fewer people in a move that will improve the quality of life for the majority of people on the planet suddenly you're a monster.

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    [–] 50 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 49 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 33 points 1 month ago* (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago* (3 children)

    We don’t need to ban them. They just need to be made to sink through a series of unfortunate events that are nobody’s fault at all.

    And if the owners are aboard and are unable to escape the sinking, I’m sure that would be a tragedy, and absolutely nobody would be dancing in the streets over such an event.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I wish the yachts themselves were exploding.

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    At first I saw that among his fleet of 6 ships, that he has a research vessel and a hospital vessel. I thought, "Ok, funding research and a fucking full on floating hospital that he can send to disasters and places in need. That would actually be pretty fucking cool."

    But, then I kept reading "a full-fledged hospital, serving as a safeguard for the cruising billionaire during the COVID-19 pandemic". 🤦

    It's a "support" vessel that follows his main yacht around in case he needs medical care.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    He's create a fleet that he, his family, and his friends can escape to when the revolution comes, and Sociopathic Oligarch families start losing their heads.

    He's not the only one. When this is over, we will task a military outfit to hunt down superyachts, arrest the occupants, confiscate the yachts, or destroy them if they resist. With satellites, they shouldn't be too hard to find.

    I know Lemmy loves him, but if he's got fleet of superyachts, he's part of the problem.

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    [–] 20 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Missed the word “sales” the first time and thought “hell yeah”, then re-read it and was just disappointed.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Paywalled article. Though I suppose that's an apt meta-Boring Dystopia detail.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 month ago

    "Somehow"

    I don't know guys. Do you think we could get to the bottom of this?

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)
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    [–] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Ukraine has gotten pretty good at flying drones. Anyway, what's this post about?

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    [–] 13 points 1 month ago*

    Manufactured economic crisises are designed for the rich to get richer. its not a side effect, its by design

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    Enslave the wealthy, make them work for us.

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  • This brings the same energy as "somehow Palpatine returned." Come on, we all know how.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)
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    [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    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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