Why would billionaires want to live on a cramped airship when they can buy literal cities or islands on the ground?
I'm neither a billionaire nor am I expecting to ever become one (unless we'll get hit by hyperinflation and start denominating banknotes in scientific notation), and I've always been happy to sneer at the huge yachts and villas of the super-rich, on the grounds of those things being wasteful excess. But sneering at them for pumping money into useful scientific and technological advances that are otherwise currently not interesting to regular market economy? That's just self-defeating, and smells of petty jealousy.
Living on a giant airship would be like having the highest penthouse apartment in the world, and the most amazing views. And you can move it when you get bored.
Because there is no law at sea.
Haven't you heard what happens on these yachts? Crazy sex, kink, drugs. Even tales of slavery and murder.
> Living on a giant airship
Even a mild gust would cause trouble. You have to be incredibly mindful of the weather.
https://www.businessinsider.com/superyacht-sex-crew-sexual-h...
https://www.stylist.co.uk/long-reads/yachting-hollywood-traf...
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a38053431/yacht-girl...
I've read multiple articles (but can't seem to find links to them) that threats of throwing unwilling parties overboard are used to silence and coerce.
Seems pretty lawless to me.
But in keeping up with the Musks', I can see billionares competing with each other to have more extravagant homes in even more exotic locations, like in an airship, or an underwater base.
Some even have smaller yachts inside their super yachts.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diagram_of_Hindenbur...