Socialists look at Jeff Bezos’ $500 million yacht like he stuffed half a billion dollars into the hull, fired up the engines, and sailed the money straight out of the economy. Then comes the ritual stupidity: “Do you know how many poor people that could feed?” Do you know how many people got paid building the damn thing? Dockworkers. Steelmakers. Designers. Artisans. Suppliers. Fuel companies. Restaurants. Maintenance crews. And that is before you get to the $25+ million a year it costs to operate or the $75 million support vessel following it around. That is the part the socialist morality play always crops out. They show you the yacht because the yacht photographs well. The payroll doesn’t. Same with Gulfstream jets. Same with mansions. Same with lavish weddings. Same with every purchase they sneer at while pretending money disappears the second a rich person spends it. Meanwhile, the government has spent more than $50 trillion over roughly half a century “fighting poverty,” and somehow poverty survived the assault. What flourished? Bureaucracies. Programs. Contractors. Fraud. Grifters. An entire permanent industry dedicated to managing a problem they never seem to solve. And after watching that staggering mountain of spending fail to produce paradise, the socialist solution is still: confiscate more. Brilliant. Absolutely fucking brilliant. Take money away from people who invest it, build companies with it, buy products with it, finance startups with it, lend it, spend it, and push it through millions of private transactions — then hand more of it to the same political machinery that already burned through tens of trillions. They count the yachts because counting the paychecks would wreck the scam. (article below)