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The Country That Wants to ‘Be Average’ vs. Jeff Bezos and His $500M Yacht

3 points by wyclif 4y ago

mr90210 4y ago
A stupid question from me: given his wealth, can he hire those big helicopters to lift it off and land it right after the bridge? PS: Before you mock me, I didn’t bother researching about the specs of the Yacht such as the weight.
- beardyw 4y ago
  "According to Boat International, the aluminum and steel schooner will boast three decks including one with a swimming pool. At 417 ft long, the enormous vessel is set to become the world’s largest sailing yacht, unseating the current titleholder, the Black Pearl, by 67 ft." 417 ft = 127m
  - qbrass 4y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Pearl_(yacht) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Pearl_(yacht) Looked it up just to see who would name their ship the Black Pearl.
themodelplumber 4y ago
This has got to be a real test of Bezos vs. Bezos. The issues are on his radar for sure. I'd love to read more about his possible reaction if anyone has links. But IMO he's probably conflicted about the issues here and interpreting them deeply, using his non-business, personal-life toolset. The same toolset that gets him upset about critique in general. Bzzt. This won't end well for his personal valuation of himself, or his public image, if he doesn't openly start to reconcile the need for a private, self-care yacht-world with the public, social-care world. That won't be easy despite how it always looks to everyone from the outside, but it's also not like someone trying it out can be faulted much for trying. His default covert social contact is something akin to "I leak money into your world by acting like a machine all day, then when I'm tired I buy things I like, and you ignore my excesses, which are only human, because I'm not exactly lazy." Much of the public disagrees that someone with so much leverage (built on various layers of infrastructure and goodwill) is "just" a human anymore, and there are good reasons to take that viewpoint seriously. In his shoes I'd immediately start making fun of myself and learn to expose some of the complexity of that inner social contract for what it should be, or could be: A useful social heritage experiment in changing the traditional top hat model of billionaire life. A blue origin for living a life that's inwardly supportive of self and also outwardly supportive of humankind's social development and evolution. Be that kind of astronaut traveling into the metaphorical unknown, and people will take your spirit with them into the spatial unknown for centuries to come. Or, I guess, be a little creative and get your damn yacht problem fixed fast...

3 points by wyclif 4y ago

A stupid question from me: given his wealth, can he hire those big helicopters to lift it off and land it right after the bridge? PS: Before you mock me, I didn’t bother researching about the specs of the Yacht such as the weight.

beardyw 4y ago
"According to Boat International, the aluminum and steel schooner will boast three decks including one with a swimming pool. At 417 ft long, the enormous vessel is set to become the world’s largest sailing yacht, unseating the current titleholder, the Black Pearl, by 67 ft." 417 ft = 127m
- qbrass 4y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Pearl_(yacht) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Pearl_(yacht) Looked it up just to see who would name their ship the Black Pearl.

themodelplumber 4y ago

This has got to be a real test of Bezos vs. Bezos. The issues are on his radar for sure. I'd love to read more about his possible reaction if anyone has links. But IMO he's probably conflicted about the issues here and interpreting them deeply, using his non-business, personal-life toolset. The same toolset that gets him upset about critique in general. Bzzt. This won't end well for his personal valuation of himself, or his public image, if he doesn't openly start to reconcile the need for a private, self-care yacht-world with the public, social-care world. That won't be easy despite how it always looks to everyone from the outside, but it's also not like someone trying it out can be faulted much for trying. His default covert social contact is something akin to "I leak money into your world by acting like a machine all day, then when I'm tired I buy things I like, and you ignore my excesses, which are only human, because I'm not exactly lazy." Much of the public disagrees that someone with so much leverage (built on various layers of infrastructure and goodwill) is "just" a human anymore, and there are good reasons to take that viewpoint seriously. In his shoes I'd immediately start making fun of myself and learn to expose some of the complexity of that inner social contract for what it should be, or could be: A useful social heritage experiment in changing the traditional top hat model of billionaire life. A blue origin for living a life that's inwardly supportive of self and also outwardly supportive of humankind's social development and evolution. Be that kind of astronaut traveling into the metaphorical unknown, and people will take your spirit with them into the spatial unknown for centuries to come. Or, I guess, be a little creative and get your damn yacht problem fixed fast...