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FrodosPet

(5,169 posts)
2. How many people will it take to build that thing?
Thu Feb 2, 2012, 07:09 AM
Feb 2012

I know, better to spend the money feeding the poor than to give the people building and maintaining those monstrosities a job.

Of course, that makes mega farmers and food companies rich, but it seems like no matter what we do, SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE is going to get rich. If not in cash money, then at least in power and influence.

 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
5. False choice. That money, properly used, could generate many times more jobs....
Thu Feb 2, 2012, 07:30 AM
Feb 2012

... than will come from this toy.


Here's what Moody's, the bond-rating people, think of various stimulants...

<a href="http://imgur.com/T7qoo"><img src="" title="Hosted by imgur.com" alt="" /></a>

 

alphafemale

(18,497 posts)
7. LMAO.
Thu Feb 2, 2012, 07:36 AM
Feb 2012

No way that's real.

Yeah. A billionaire wants a volcano that looks like it came from a third-tier theme park taking up a third of their boat along with beach chair replicas from the public pool.

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
8. Of course not. The article plainly says...
Thu Feb 2, 2012, 07:56 AM
Feb 2012

it's a design study they did for fun.

Think of it as the Batmobile showing up at the car show.

(But with far more handwringing and rage.)

d_r

(6,907 posts)
12. I was going to say that, too
Thu Feb 2, 2012, 09:36 AM
Feb 2012

Someone is going to take something like that and try to pass it off as a new "island nation" for off-shore banking and tax evasion.

Buns_of_Fire

(17,194 posts)
14. A sign of the times -- Gilligan now comes with his own island.
Thu Feb 2, 2012, 09:50 AM
Feb 2012

Charter the S.S. Vesuvius for a three-hour tour!

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)
15. Oh look, a floating brothel for a House of Saud spawn and their American "friends" . .
Thu Feb 2, 2012, 09:58 AM
Feb 2012

So gaudy, it looks made up, even for the wealthy.

Sadly, it's real.

I suppose this floating island will make it harder for the disenfranchised to climb.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,361 posts)
19. Looking at the website, it doesn't seem they've built or sold anything
Thu Feb 2, 2012, 12:44 PM
Feb 2012

It's just some pictures. I suspect they are hoping someone will have a smaller requirement, but be seduced by the 'fuck everyone' ostentation of these concepts, and use them to build something in reality.

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