"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.
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.
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.
It's getting close to the point that the only thing that needs to be tricking down, is blood. We'll worry about the money after that. There should be plenty of leftover money with nobody to use it anymore. We can put it to good use.
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.
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
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.
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.
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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late_list@piefed.zip · 110 pts · 18h
"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.
PointlessLifePersonified@slrpnk.net · 25 pts · 15h
Don't forget using them to hide somewhere out of reach when the peasants finally revolt.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 7h
That's the real agenda.
GoTime@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 18h
Anytime now the trickle down is gonna start, trust /s
django@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 16h
Just start working in the super yacht business.
kestrel7_7@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 7h
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.
django@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 5h
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 billionairesbecome an exploiter yourself.gedfromgont@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 14h
We are all going to get boats?
HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 pts · 8h
ai will give us all boats.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 6h
It's getting close to the point that the only thing that needs to be tricking down, is blood. We'll worry about the money after that. There should be plenty of leftover money with nobody to use it anymore. We can put it to good use.
YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 13h
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.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 7h
Let's Tricke It Down by just taking it back.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 38 pts · 10h
I am tired of pretending I don't want to behead all billionaires.
_wizard@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 9h
Then stop. There's plenty of us that feel the same. Our community needs more people.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 7h
That reminds me, I have to sharpen my guillotine.
atro_city@fedia.io · 33 pts · 15h
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
Captain_Buddha@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 14h
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 7h
Tax Wealth, Not Work
Dogiedog64@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 7h
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.
Jimbel@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 5h
Yep. People can only be wealthy if the wealth is not distributed evenly.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 9h
These things are terrible for the environment.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 8h
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.
pulsey@feddit.org · 10 pts · 8h
Release the Orcas!
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 17h
Missed the word “sales” the first time and thought “hell yeah”, then re-read it and was just disappointed.
jballs@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 7h
Yeah, the fact that super-yachts aren't exploding just shows how fucked we are.
NekoKoneko@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 18h
Paywalled article. Though I suppose that's an apt meta-Boring Dystopia detail.
reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 16h
Ghostarchive isn't working for me, so here is an archive.today link.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 6h
Nothing works any more.
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz · 18 pts · 11h
gabe newell the ceo of valve has an entire fleet of superyatchs
https://luxurylaunches.com/transport/gabe-newell-luxury-yachts.php
Test_Tickles@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 8h
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.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 7h
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.
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 10h
I like to think he has an elite crew of engies and demo guys to keep his fleet safe.
Damage@feddit.it · 3 pts · 11h
And to think it's the Rainbow Warrior that got mined and sunk
Krelis_@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 47m
It should be pointed out he actually now owns Oceanco, the megayacht building company mentioned throughout that article
StealthLizardDrop@piefed.social · 12 pts · 13h
Manufactured economic crisises are designed for the rich to get richer. its not a side effect, its by design
OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 10h
Ukraine has gotten pretty good at flying drones. Anyway, what's this post about?
zbyte64@awful.systems · 2 pts · 1h
Unfortunately the weapons they develop there will be used against us here.
decolo@piefed.social · 2 pts · 8h
They also have some good unmanned ground vehicles, and interestingly enough, unmanned sea drones
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 16h
This brings the same energy as "somehow Palpatine returned." Come on, we all know how.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 6h
Enslave the wealthy, make them work for us.
DigiHippie@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 43m
VOTE
not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 45m
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 4h
People selling all of their stuff to go live permanently on the ocean?
I know of at least one person with that plan
Polisheocket@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 50m
I wouldn’t mind it. Fish everyday, enjoy beautiful scenery, peace and quiet.
FluidBeef@quokk.au · 2 pts · 16m
It’s not “somehow” - the real economy is tanking precisely because the oligarchs have got so efficient at skimming the top off.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 11h
If I'm ever out in my 14' Lund fishing boat and I see one of those superyachts I'm gonna ram it!
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 9h
Don't worry. They're actually research vessels. So it's all good.