On a global scale, anyone dropping 200k on a pleasure boat, lets assume they have a net wealth of at least 1 million (insane to spend 1/5th of your wealth on a toy but anyway…), is in the top 0.1%. It’s not “kind of well off”.
Even possessing 200k dollars puts you in the top 5%.
People don’t understand numbers and that’s ok. You let one lunatic have a trillion and now you’re excusing the 0.1% as “kind of well off”.
A lot people can earn a million dollars by scrimping and saving for years. This includes many everyday working people who happen to make a decent salary. A billionaire only gets there by exploitation and taking advantage of others, you can’t save up a billion dollars by having a good job and being thrifty. If somebody works a job for 30 years, saves, and then wants to buy a boat to retire on then good for him. They are not the enemy.
How about you save your bullets for the actual, child eating billionaires instead of some guy who is just kinda well off, huh?
On a global scale, anyone dropping 200k on a pleasure boat, lets assume they have a net wealth of at least 1 million (insane to spend 1/5th of your wealth on a toy but anyway…), is in the top 0.1%. It’s not “kind of well off”.
Even possessing 200k dollars puts you in the top 5%.
People don’t understand numbers and that’s ok. You let one lunatic have a trillion and now you’re excusing the 0.1% as “kind of well off”.
A lot people can earn a million dollars by scrimping and saving for years. This includes many everyday working people who happen to make a decent salary. A billionaire only gets there by exploitation and taking advantage of others, you can’t save up a billion dollars by having a good job and being thrifty. If somebody works a job for 30 years, saves, and then wants to buy a boat to retire on then good for him. They are not the enemy.
Someone who owns $1 million is maybe like 5 years away from complete bankruptcy if they drop $200k to purchase a boat.
There is a reason people say that boats are “a hole in the water to throw your money into”. They cost a literal fortune to maintain.
Nobody with “just” $1 million can afford to buy and maintain a $200,000 boat.