Private Jets to Ibiza, Paris Surge as Rich Evade Travel Chaos
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On the other hand another friend who flys long haul for a large national branded airline has had a fairly slow few years.
I'll take it seriously when they do.
Suddenly 200gbp/hour is a real steal. But it's not about the money, it's about the feeling of power when people throw themselves at you.
Equating Ibiza to sex and parties is like saying Amsterdam is nothing but rain or London is always foggy. There's some truth to it, but you'll be missing a whole lot if judging just by that
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They had an extremely hard time two years in a row buying at 0.5% interest and speculating on the boom of the housing market, they need to relax and enjoy now!
The "I deserve this" ideology is a great danger to the super-wealthy because it blinds them to the more profound truth: unbalanced games are not fun and ultimately fail. Arguing against game balance because you've used (maybe even discovered) degenerate strats to acquire a huge resource lead is immature and short-sighted because if the game itself fails none of those resources will have any value.
Violent revolutions are conducted either by the court (of the king) who use the desperation of the very poor; or by envious almost-wealthies likewise able to rabble-rouse the very poor.
The problem you have with your theory is: we are all very rich against the "revolt wealth" standard. Greece, post-crisis, lost 25% of its GDP. If that had occurred in almost any decade in human history there would be a violent revolt. Today a loss of 25% GDP goes from very rich, to quite rich.
Almost everyone who could revolt is far too wealthy to risk it. The european poor arent going to risk their benefits to revolt against taxpayers. These benefits constitute an insurmountable wealth-floor on revolution.
The rich can do whatever they like, envy isn't enough here.
The elite landowning gentry unhappy with British taxation, not the colonists per se, most of whom were quite happy to remain British or were undecided on the matter. Popular support came later by means of effective propaganda, such as Thomas Paine's "Common Sense," not grassroots sentiment.
The government should bring in capital controls and seize their accounts and capital. Let them try to survive when they can't leech off the working class.
So it's private jet or you're middle class? That's a ludicrous statement, really.
You conveniently forget the universe of luxury amenities that wealth grants you, and more importantly the power you get as a consequence. Being able to move fast on private jets is just a small fraction of the benefits.