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Gabe Newell caps off Steam Machine week by taking delivery of a new $500 million superyacht with a submarine garage, on-board hospital and 15 gaming PCs (www.pcgamer.com)
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[โ€“] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 61 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Funny, I was just reading about this sort of thing in "How to blow up a pipeline". It's the sort of argument that seems obvious in retrospect.

When someone in the global south uses a coal stove to cook their food, they're doing it by necessity. When a billionaire sails out on a mega yacht, it's pure excess. Yeah, banning them won't make the difference between 1.5C and 2.0C of global warming, but it's low hanging fruit.

We can also ban private jets, and the only significant impact to the economy would be that some billionaires have to travel around in first class like some kind of lowly multimillionaire or upgraded plebian.

It does not matter if you think Valve makes good products or not.

[โ€“] Datz@szmer.info 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I can see how banning might be controversial, but I sure wish they'd tax the hell out of them. Make that yacht not a million, but 10 or 100, a billion. Give that tax money to services like healthcare or UBI. I can see unique perks to yachts, if you genuinely want one as a dream I'm not gonna stop you, just commit to that being the dream you want.

In practise I can see how politicans would (or do) just use that money for themselves anyway...

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