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It is rather baffling that there are no zillionaires flying airborne yachts yet, you'd have thought that one of 'm would have gotten others to build him a modern Graf Zeppelin or similar.

Apart from that, yes. Do they not realise that their hypocrisy makes their supposed engagement for the 'climate' and 'planet' null and void? Probably not or possibly they imagine they'll have enough money and power to force their ideology down the throats of the general population.



Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.


The Ministry for the Future presents these ideas where the ruling class and then the proletariat is forced into using ecofriendly modes of transportation like fast yachts and dirigibles for long distance travel. I imagine a future where we'll see this but it's going to take some serious unrest before the ultra wealthy give up their private jets.




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