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These people want to peer into a world that they don't belong to and see how the other half lives."
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For sure, over 99.9% of humanity don't at first glance
belong to that world "they don't belong to", but we're not looking at how the other half live, we're only looking realistically at how
less than 0.01% of the others live...?!
It's only in the last 5 years or so after 2 decades where I've been involved with yachting that I've been confronted with the wider aspects of
yacht ownership. As a male homo-sapiens, I admire
inanimate objects, whether they be yachts, cars or something else. I also appreciate the sometimes breath-taking physical beauty of my fellow women, children and even men-folk, not forgetting everything that natural wildlife has to offer.
But it has become increasingly difficult for me to assimilate the increasing numbers of yachts both modest and mega-sized, their owners and what I see as a wholly disproportionate redistribution of wealth today in the devloped world.
I'm a moderate person, but what I fear is an over-reaction, something like a proletariat-uprising akin to what went on in the early part of the 20th Century. As soon as the middle-class majority realise that they're no more than
peons in a wider sense, these beautiful inanimate objects and my "bread and butter" will become mere rusting relics tied up to disused wharfs that noone would ever dream of converting or rebuilding at some future date...?!
I guess that what I'm saying is that if yacht owners today feel they should have recourse to using every available lawful subterfuge in order to preserve their so-called
privacy rights, that this probably means that their day has already come, and almost gone. And it would be more advisble to remove themselves to their NBC bunkers, invest in gold and await a reversal of the current situation where 5% of the population own over 90% of the wealth - and the remaining 95% would consider being paid in a currency that does not automatically oblige them "to make good" irresponsible government expenditures on their behalf.
Yachts, even megayachts can be beautiful. It's just a shame that anyone who owns one wasn't elected to benefit from ownership I guess...?!
