Comrade Willy

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      The word yacht doesn’t mean wealth,

      Yes, yes it does. It doesn’t mean ‘billionaire,’ but these aren’t subsistence fishermen we’re talking about here.

      It was a $128,000 yacht. If you don’t think people who can afford such a yacht are rich, you are one privileged person.

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        It was a $128,000 yacht. If you don’t think people who can afford such a yacht are rich, you are one privileged person.

        You’d be surprised how many people own a $128,000 yacht INSTEAD of a more-than-$128,000 house.

        (Of course, there are even more people who live aboard full-time on much-less-than-$128,000 yachts. For example, Sailing Uma probably have a bunch of money now 'cause they’re relatively successful Youtubers, but they started out spending only about $10k total (purchase + initial refit costs) for their 50-year-old, 36-foot boat. There’s an entire subculture of people doing basically nautical #vanlife, and they aren’t any richer than the homeless-by-conventional-standards people doing it on land.)

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          I’ve met them, they fucked up someone else’s boat in the marina I was at, they didn’t offer to fix or help pay, they just bailed. They definitely fit into the asshole category, in my opinion.

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        You’re literally attacking middle class people for having a small yacht.

        Your concept of wealthy is really skewed.

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          “Middle class” and “small yacht.” Most middle class people can’t even afford a house. This is something that costs more than a luxury car.

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            Yea no one in the middle class can afford a house, a couple of cars and a small yacht.

            It’s impossible without having billions in the bank!

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                I think there’s enough room in middle class for someone to own a small yacht.

                You seem to think middle class means poverty and near homelessness.

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                  I think there’s not enough room in “middle class” to buy a home and a yacht that costs more than a luxury car.

                  There’s a reason they’re called luxury cars. They’re for the rich.

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                    Luxury cars are defined solely for taxation purposes.

                    Having a couple of million in assets is still middle class. A union worker can build that sort of wealth over a lifetime.

                    You probably aren’t middle class given your limited views on some rather modest assets.

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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        TBH might have been a bunch of middle class retirees who sold the family home up in England for like 800k, bought something smaller for two to live in in Spain, and a small sailing boat. I don’t think about those people as “rich”.