• TronBronson@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    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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      3 days ago

      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.

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        5 hours ago

        Yeah I sold real estate to a couple who was living out of a boat and traveling the world. He was a retired oil engineer, and it made lots of money and could afford to stay around and do nothing his whole life. That’s the point. It’s a position of comfort and personal decision. Just like van life Lmfaoo: rich kids pretending to be vagrant hippies. I spent a lot of time with them as a real vagrant hippie.

    • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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      3 days ago

      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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        6 hours ago

        Right and I’m talking about how the good wage jobs have slowly disappeared over the last 20 years. I’m talking the devaluation of our currency and inflation of our necessities has not kept up with meager wage growth. They’re gonna offshore your job soon enough or replace you with AI. If you are still in the sailboat owning class, you are a demographic that’s getting more unobtainable to the non sailboat class. You don’t feel like you’re rich, but you were the net beneficiary of all of the subsidies and money printing of your own a house and a 401k.

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          5 hours ago

          So what am I supposed to do? Donate my house to the homeless? Or simply buy a gun and get ready to fights the poors when class war begins?

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            3 hours ago

            What ever you feel like brother, we’re in a post constitutional law America. If you feel like the system is going to protect you from the people it hurts then I guess fight the poors, if not idk do anything in your power to fight for democracy and decency? I’m just a casual observer for now, but I’m more focused on the food supply chain than the obvious authoritarianism. Remember during Covid when people were hoarding toilet paper? Overcharging for masks? Idk about you but I’m working on my food production lol

            • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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              1 hour ago

              Why would I fight for democracy if the masses see me as their enemy? That’s what I mean. If everyone with more money they you (even wage workers) is the enemy than I guess I have to side with the system that protects me. What other choice do I have? Sacrifice my life for the good of the common people? Who am I? Prometheus?

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                58 minutes ago

                Lmao: this country can’t even come together and agree that the richest 10,000 people can afford some austerity with the rest of us. I don’t think anyone needs to sacrifice their life for anything personally. I think we can all probably sacrifice some comforts for the sake of unity and equality, but I really think we can just sacrifice the billionaires, metaphorically I suppose. Or maybe we can just keep holding elections, voting more austerity for ourselves, more debt for our grand children, and more yachts for 0.000001%, and the promise that your kids won’t have to live like the second class citizens you have created.

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                  48 minutes ago

                  Ok, so you’re saying that it’a enough for me to support higher taxes for the rich and we’ll be cool? The poor masses wont kill me in the class war even if I do have a yacht?