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> For most billionaires the answer seems to be that you buy a moderately upgraded version of all the stuff you had when you were middle class,

I don’t think you know what billionaires live like. Either that or the middle class you refer to is something very different from the one in the states. A 150ft yacht that you fly to with your helicopter from an airport you landed at with your private plane isn’t really relatable to anything in the middle class... unless you count jumping out of a tree into a canoe.



A 150ft yacht is exactly the upgraded version of a fishing boat from a 1950s driveway in a newly minted middle class neighbourhood.


No it’s not. You can live on a yatch and traverse the open ocean for months at a time.


But is it a moderate upgrade?


In terms of cost? No. In terms of derived personal value? Absolutely.




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