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[โ€“] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

As my dad who grew up sailing says, "a boat is a hole in the water that you throw money into."

There's nothing you can do to them that's worse than they're already doing to themselves by owning a boat.

Besides, they're talking about the kind of boat that you'd see in every harbor all over the world, not some monument to greed:

It's no 15 foot Boston Whaler, but there's hundreds of boats that size in every harbor and marina you can think of.

[โ€“] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago

Yes, and they cost a shit ton of money to own. Most of the people who own those boats literally own multiple houses.