What the hell's up with yachts, anyway?
Beyond the status symboI don't understand the selling point.
this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2024
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Traveling in luxury around the world and being able to go into international waters where laws don't apply for everything else I suppose
Beyond the status symbol
I'm pretty sure that that's a large part of it. If it weren't, the race to have the largest and most expensive yacht wouldn't be such a thing.
I guess it's an isolated environment with controlled access, so you don't have to deal with paparazzi or whatever.
considers
I guess you're only subject to the laws of the flag state. I don't suppose that that matters much for Russian oligarchs.
There are a couple laws in the US where the US will still assert extraterritorial jurisdiction over its citizens, even if they're in territory normally outside of US jurisdiction. One of those is child sex tourism -- and it looks like a similar thing is done by the EU and UK -- so you can't just go out on your yacht and have sex with twelve-year-olds to your heart's content. But for most other stuff, I believe that as long as you select your ship's flag carefully, it's probably more-or-less outside the law for most purposes. For some people, that might be rather significant.
you can’t just go out on your yacht and have sex with twelve-year-olds to your heart’s content
Didn't L. Ron Hubbard do exactly that?
I mean he also had his cult infiltrate the FBI but still...
Didn’t L. Ron Hubbard do exactly that?
Like, with Sea Org? The relevant legislation for the US went through in 2003. Hubbard died in 1986.
Vice has a video on it.
https://youtu.be/KjpnObVhKpg?si=okTva9gw2w6mukFa
Apart from what others have said. If they pick a different country to fly their yachts flag, they get a lot less regulations. They can hire people from poor country 1, sail around, and if the yacht needs maintenance in a port on another country then they can just fire everyone and leave them stranded in a different continent.
Having serfs at your beck and call raises eyebrows. So they go to sea where there are no eyebrows.
I want one because I really like swimming in pretty places, being really comfortable lounging in the sun and sleeping at night, and also going to new places all the time. I can only pick two of the three at any time without a yacht. I don't need a mega-yacht for that, just a nice 60 footer.
For billionaires, though, it's so they can avoid laws while doing bad shit.
I assume that means she gets added to the sanctions list right?
Right?