Five million dead from covid, and the ultra-rich are complaining about a lack of marinas for their super-yachts

 
Above: "The Yacht Race," a wood engraving print by Frederick Becker (1913-2004), created while he was in the WPA's Federal Art Project, ca. 1935-1939. Image courtesy of the General Services Administration and the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Mourn for the homeless... super-yachts

The super-rich are buying bigger and bigger yachts, and they're getting a bit irritated that the world's marinas are not keeping pace with them. One wrote:

"For instance, we've just experienced days of very rough water from the southern Queensland border to the Capricorn Coast. Then, when we arrived at the coast not feeling that great after two very rough sleepless nights and a rough day, many yachts were outside the marinas... These superyachts need marinas too – sadly lacking for vessels over 50 metres. It's time for more marinas large enough to cater not only for small and medium yachts but larger ones too" ("Sailing away: superyacht industry booms during Covid pandemic," The Guardian, December 12, 2021).

Some people feel that it's time for Medicare-for-All. Others feel that it's time for a Job Guaranty program, or perhaps a Universal Basic Income, so that people don't have to live in squalor. And still others think that it's time for new water lines, so that the children of the working-class don't have to drink lead. But the super-rich? They feel... very passionately... that it's time for bigger marinas.

One thing we know for sure, is that right-wing voters will continue to put into power politicians who will give more and more tax cuts to the rich... so that the rich can continue on, and even accelerate their journey of separation from us. We will be left in the exhaust smoke of our holy JOB CREATORS.

"Whether it's this or private jets or trips to space, they're just sticking two fingers up [the British equivalent of the middle finger] at the rest of society. It’s decadent. They're not comfortable with the constraints that come with accepting collective responsibility for the fate of the planet."

--Professor Peter Newell, Sussex University (see The Guardian article cited above)