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  • Gonna have to ask you for a source on that.

    Also, as stated, he’d have to own 5000 of them to even reach 1% of global emissions. I genuinely could not care less about this non-issue.


    ETA: On the off-chance that he did indeed own 5000 megayachts, I checked: he owns 6.

    That, assuming all of them run around the clock at 1000 gallons maximum consumption rate, makes his contribution to total carbon emissions ~0.001%.

    Impressive for a single man, but not even close to me giving a fuck and not considering you hella weird, and probably simply envious, for caring this much.

    Also there are a total of 800 megayachts in the world, so even combined and running full tilt around the clock, all megayachts combined get to ~0.16% of global emissions with your 1000 gallons of fuel figure.

    So yeah, you can, in fact, stop spamming, and caring, about the megayachts.

    It’s really not a big fucking deal.


  • Yesn’t.

    All your objections are valid, however all of these factors only add noise to the equation.

    The Pareto distribution still observably happens in non-centralised, non-profit driven systems.

    It is a byproduct of unequal output, not market type, provided there is some sort of reward proportional to performance.

    I don’t think we should prescribe to the idea differences in skill are AS great as riches would imply.

    They are only in the beginning. Money has the ability to compound and, in the case of competitive, elastic markets, this is even more starkly visible.

    If I make more money one year due to higher fitness/better output, I have more revenue with similar expenses to my direct competitors, so I have more profit, I get to invest more, rinse, repeat, compounding my competitive advantage more-than-linearly.


    This however is just more visible in economics. In fact, I would argue it goes for any type of competitive environment; the fewer limiting factors on individual faculties the more obvious it is.

    Individual sports like tennis, swimming, running, or martial arts are usually dominated by a handful of individuals, who reach the peak and then get replaced as they get older, and new, stronger athletes join the competition (or sometimes if rulesets are modified to shake up the meta, but that would also change the parameters to determine fitness).

    The only scenario where this does not happen is where there is no running incentive, or only weak ones, to excel in a particular pursuit.



  • He owns multiple megayatchts

    Still a single person, still can’t use them all at once.

    and now a company that make these

    You understand that the clientele of a megayacht shipyard is very limited, right? This is a non-issue.

    Let’s focus on real issues, like the move to nuclear, or finding better ways to do metallurgy than exporting all of it to the third world where health and pollution regulations don’t apply, as if it’s not the same atmosphere we’re polluting, shall we?

    Luxury purchases only a handful of people can even afford is really the bottommost thing on the list, short of regulating how much you’re allowed to eat beans to reduce your methane output.


    ETA: For the sake of checking my biases, I ran the numbers.

    If Gabe lived every single day of a year on one of his yachts and they ran the full 1000 gallons of fuel you claim (which I am taking in good faith) this would amount to 77,850 metric tons of CO2 produced. Which is indubitably an impressive amount, until you realise that 32.8 Billion tonnes have been released in the atmosphere in 2024.

    So yeah, I don’t give a toss about your weird fucking fixation.

    It is a lot of CO2, it’s still not even a drop in the bucket compared to what we need to actually address, it is off by 6 orders of magnitude, get a grip, he’d have to own 5000 of the damn things and run them all year round to even add up to 1% of global pollution.