• ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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    2 days ago

    I don’t know who you consider a rich fuck but a yacht like this cost maybe $70k. It’s not much different than owning a car.

    • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zip
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      I doubt the cost of owning a thing end with the price of purchase. At least for boat you have to park it somewhere, maintenance for a yacht probably gonna cost a lot because it’s specialised. That’s why it’s usually for people with a lot of extra money to own one.

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      1 day ago

      And everyone has a $70k car, right?

      The people in here defending private sailboats like it’s something anyone can do is insane.

      Yeah let me just go out and drop $70k on a thing I use a few times a year in the water. Nothing rich-person about that…

      • TheRealKuni@piefed.social
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        I think it’s less about acting like it’s something anyone can do, and more about acting like it’s something people who aren’t ultrawealthy can do.

        Having wealth isn’t inherently bad. It’s the distribution of wealth that has fucked our system.

        Check this out for some context.

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      Yes it’s just like owning a car! Which we primarily use to get to work and earn money to pay for the car!!! What do you do in a boat??? Oh ya!!! Not working and scoot around all day. Must be nice!

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        What do you do in a boat???

        A boat like this one? You fuckin’ live in it instead of a house (and at a much lower cost).

        I mean, not this exact one from the article because it was a rental, but in general a lot of yachts in this ~40’ range are owned by couples and used for the nautical equivalent of #vanlife.

      • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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        Lot’s of people have hobby cars. I don’t own a second car or a boat but I don’t consider everyone who has one rich. Those people still go to work every day and save for retirement. We’re talking about good wage job, not being a millionaire.

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      Shit, I hadn’t thought of that, the poor, poor people who can afford $70,000 recreation craft. Won’t someone think of the sailboat owners.

      • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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        Where do you draw the line? Who do you consider a “rich fuck”? I know a carpenter who restored an ultra light airplane. This rich fuck better watch out when the class war comes!

        • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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          If you’re not living in a tent in a public park then you don’t deserve to live.

          And people wonder why everyone hates leftists.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 day ago

      The initial cost of a boat is like 1% of what the person ends up spending to maintain it.

      There is a reason why people say that boats are, “a hole in the water to throw your money into”

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      The real class war will be between people who ate yesterday and people who did not eat yesterday. I’m pretty sure there’s some food on that boat.

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        The real class war will be between people who ate yesterday and people who did not eat yesterday.

        The billionaire class wants you to think someone with a million dollars is your enemy. And they want the millionaire to think you are their enemy.

        But you know what the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars is? About a billion dollars.

        The enemy is the ultrawealthy, and the more we remind the vaguely rich about this, the better our chances of actually changing things. At least that’s how I see it.

        Check this out for context.

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      1 day ago

      My car cost €8000, and that’s also about the budget I have for a boat.

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        1 day ago

        My house cost $100k, and that’s also about the budget I have for a live-aboard boat.