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What an incredible waste.

There would be a lot of jobs created in support an operation like this.

Outside of charity what else are these people going to do with their money? If they are already 60 there isn't much point investing it for the future unless it is about the next generation.

The less wasteful way would have been to have taxation laws that prevented them accumulating that level of wealth to begin with.

Tell that to the business that runs the ship.

One man's waste is another man's profit. :)

A lot of shit is shoveled for profit, yeah.

however they want to spend their money. I just bought a 1969 Larry Csonka and 1968 Bob Griese. They serve no purpose, and there is a low but reasonable chance they are counterfeit.

They cloned football players every year, and sold them?

Why?

A significant amount of the population of the world lives in poverty and destitution, while arguably working just as hard or even more than these millionaires. I can see it definitely seems like a waste, in the grand context of things.

Just to put things in perspective, a lot of the world that lives in poverty would also see the lifestyle of the top 10% (household income around $160K) to be extravagant and wasteful.

Yes, anyone with values and priorities different from our own look wasteful.

I bought a new car recently and when someone saw it, they said "what? you couldn't buy a used one? What a waste!"

Since it was a 2013 with ~60k miles on it and just very well maintained, their statement said more about them than me.

Do you think that you could similarly justify The World?

Why should they? I don't walk around "justifying" my lifestyle choices to people who make less than I do.

Maybe you should be forced to, if only for laughs.

surely less impactful than the collective trash heap generated by coastal technocrats replacing their phones every year

Less impactful than a lot of things, still an obscene waste.

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