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(14,656 posts)we see something like this. Absolutely sickening.
FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)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)... than will come from this toy.
Here's what Moody's, the bond-rating people, think of various stimulants...
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limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)Hehehehehhehe
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)alphafemale
(18,497 posts)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)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.)
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)d_r
(6,907 posts)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.
me b zola
(19,053 posts)Perhaps we are not 'all in it together' as Cameron says
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2017986/Your-portable-tropical-island-A-new-super-yacht-functioning-volcano-helicopter-pad.html#ixzz1lE2ktKYD
liberal N proud
(60,344 posts)NinetySix
(1,301 posts)... and all this will one day be yours.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,194 posts)Charter the S.S. Vesuvius for a three-hour tour!
malaise
(269,157 posts)HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)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.
LeftinOH
(5,358 posts)..and so would I.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,361 posts)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.