How the World’s Wealthiest People Travel

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  • čas přidán 18. 10. 2022
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  • @flightmode9114
    @flightmode9114 Před rokem +29385

    A ship that carries yachts over water so that the super rich get to attend events they don't even want to attend, causing prices to skyrocket and carbon emissions to go nuts, while the average middle class person gets criticized for using their heater in August is truly the pinnacle of irony

    • @arthurvangoch9335
      @arthurvangoch9335 Před rokem +2493

      Never forget oil companies invented the term ecological footprint

    • @wise1023
      @wise1023 Před rokem +628

      @@arthurvangoch9335 mhm gotta put the blame on the people

    • @deleted-something
      @deleted-something Před rokem +44

      Yes

    • @thecat6898
      @thecat6898 Před rokem +2

      I got to love all these green activists targeting us for what we do like drive a suv and use plastic straws instead of what these people do
      Gotta love green capitalism

    • @isabellaangeline2175
      @isabellaangeline2175 Před rokem +241

      That made me sweat, only because where I live it’s still like an oven in August. I just used my heater for the first time yesterday morning.

  • @EliTheGleason
    @EliTheGleason Před rokem +7208

    Literally having a boat haul your boat to the boating convention so you can all go inside a building and think about how people are admiring your boat

    • @zake64
      @zake64 Před rokem +588

      I don't envy it. It honestly sounds like a pretty sad existence

    • @MacRoss1792
      @MacRoss1792 Před rokem +206

      Flexing contest at its finest for nothing good but ego

    • @VitalVampyr
      @VitalVampyr Před rokem +86

      Yo dawg, I heard you like boats...

    • @devvy_01
      @devvy_01 Před rokem +12

      Truck truck simpsons vibe

    • @taan1424
      @taan1424 Před rokem

      And they look the same too. So is literally just a dick-measuring contest.
      At least the ultra-wealty of old flexed with genuine art and interesting architecture.

  • @jocykujo
    @jocykujo Před rokem +2438

    just when I think I have a sense of what luxury is or how the wealthy live, I hear phrases like “WWII simulating private yachts for bored rich kids” and then I realize that I know nothing

    • @Karlach_
      @Karlach_ Před rokem +48

      We just have so much money that we get bored easily so we have to keep doing crazier things to feel alive and impress our peers

    • @Music4DaSol
      @Music4DaSol Před rokem

      It’s a mental illness lol

    • @patinho5589
      @patinho5589 Před rokem +140

      @@Karlach_it’s not only boredom. It’s a total lack of ethics and morality. Allowing billions to die of suffering as a direct flip side of your choice to indulge rather than to help them.
      It’s utterly ridiculous.
      I pray I never get so totally messed up.

    • @Joenzinator
      @Joenzinator Před rokem +50

      @@patinho5589 Some of the world's problems aren't easily fixable by throwing money at them. It's certainly not as simple as "these people suffer because this guy bought a yacht". If you could just throw money at dirty water issues and fix it, it would have been fixed ages ago.

    • @patinho5589
      @patinho5589 Před rokem +10

      @@Joenzinator but not trying with the money you have is still a crime.
      Time, energy and money.
      Mainly energy.
      Money can pay for some energy to be spent.
      There is a lot you can do with money.
      But prayer is required for some of the bigger problems such as North Korea.
      Concerted joint prayer.
      80,000 people in a stadium doing dynamic prayer for one hour.
      Every person on the planet doing it for one day..
      Would change our world completely from morning to night. The whole world changed.. in one day.

  • @The_Superyacht_Paint_Expert

    I’m a superyacht paint expert in South FL, I can confirm everything you said about the yachts is correct. The yachting industry is the most unique, bc money usually isn’t a problem. The limitations of physics, is the only thing holding them back.

    • @thatslucko8548
      @thatslucko8548 Před 8 měsíci +17

      hahaha, the limitations of physics. Love it

    • @6z0
      @6z0 Před 14 dny

      😂😂

  • @Ucfahmad
    @Ucfahmad Před rokem +5889

    I bought a Costco canoe this summer so you can say I’m part of the ultra-exclusive maritime community

    • @OvertravelX
      @OvertravelX Před rokem +423

      You need to get a pontoon so you can transport your canoe to the other side of the lake.

    • @johnzidor
      @johnzidor Před rokem +11

      Hahah,

    • @brettstakelin
      @brettstakelin Před rokem +20

      This wins.

    • @SlackActionBumble
      @SlackActionBumble Před rokem +188

      I bought a rusty old 10hp motorboat on Craigslist for $1200. So long, poors - i'm off to Monaco

    • @dosmastrify
      @dosmastrify Před rokem +25

      You're nearly carbon free too! Good job!

  • @themanwiththegoldengooch9811

    I legitimately thought all the yachts traveled through the oceans on their own power. I had no idea a yacht ferry even existed

    • @Wabeeninc
      @Wabeeninc Před rokem +111

      depends on the owner, if the owner likes exploration then drive if they dont then boat boat

    • @biffhenderson1144
      @biffhenderson1144 Před rokem +83

      Lot ferries are big business. Many sponsor race cars. That is how I found out. I looked up one of the sponsors.

    • @scjones25
      @scjones25 Před rokem +74

      I'm still trying to figure out *why* they exist. Why do people have their boats shipped across the ocean instead of just having a skeleton crew sail it across under its own power?
      Is it faster? Is it to avoid the downtime from the wear and tear that a transoceanic crossing would normally cause? It can't possibly be cheaper, can it?

    • @eopest
      @eopest Před rokem +152

      @@scjones25 Many of the yachts small enough to be shipped aren't deep-water capable. Plus you can give your crews the downtime and just fly them out to meet the yacht and get it ready before the owner gets there.

    • @charlesjay8818
      @charlesjay8818 Před rokem +108

      @@scjones25 Alot of the smaller yachts don't have the 3500 nautical range to cross to Atlantic, yachts over 50-60m would be okay i guess. Plus as you mentioned it cuts down on wear and tear and gives the crew a break as you only need a skeleton crew for the crossing. Plus you will save tens of thousands of $$$ in diesel. Whether it's cheaper or not not i'm not sure, but if you are a multi millionaire i don't think the money is a problem

  • @HermaeusM
    @HermaeusM Před 10 měsíci +73

    “Keep your AC set on 80 degrees SaVe ThE pLaNeT”
    *flies private jet to their 3rd mansion*

  • @jacobbernard1393
    @jacobbernard1393 Před rokem +1236

    It's insane that, even as I have an income multiple times that of the median American, I'm still only considered "Middle Class", and that I have more in common with a homeless person than I do with a multimillionaire, let alone billionaires. The scale of the inequality is absolutely inconceivable, and our society is falling apart at the seams, stretched too thin because of the constant upward transfer of wealth.

    • @digitalfootballer9032
      @digitalfootballer9032 Před rokem +59

      One may argue that in the days of Rockefeller and Carnegie and other Barons of industry, in comparison to the working poor living in packed tenements and working in dangerous factories making a nickel an hour, the wealth gap was actually worse. But the differences are for one that today there are more elite wealthy because of a bigger global market and because of the technology boom, and also they are more in the public eye because of modern media.

    • @Joenzinator
      @Joenzinator Před rokem +72

      The wealth gap has increased, but the floor has also increased significantly. Global wealth has grown for all income classes.
      It's also not very hard for an upper-middle family to become ultra-rich, but it takes time (a lot of time). If a family can invest $20,000/year in the S&P500 (and increase that investment at the rate of inflation) it would take about 71 years to get your first billion.
      The problem is that it takes a couple generations, and also most people wouldn't want to live like that. Most people will retire after they hit about $5million, and when they give the rest to their children, their kids will spend it. It takes a tremendous amount of discipline to keep working hard and investing when you have already accrued enough money to live in relative luxury.

    • @jacobbernard1393
      @jacobbernard1393 Před rokem +53

      @Joenzinator The floor has definitely increased, and global poverty has been greatly reduced, even from when I was born less than 30 years ago, for which I'm grateful. I definitely wouldn't agree that it's easy for the upper-middle class (top few percent of income in my country) to become ultra-rich (top 0.001%). Mathematically, it just doesn't compute, with such growth requiring a lot of assumptions about market stability and returns.

    • @Joenzinator
      @Joenzinator Před rokem +12

      @@jacobbernard1393 It doesn't really require a lot of assumptions. If you look at any 25-year period, the annualized returns are between 9% and 17% returns. I picked 12% for my calculations, but if it was 10% it would just take a few more years.
      And my point was that in your lifetime, you probably won't be a billionaire. But it would be possible to make your grandchildren billionaires without doing anything extraordinary.

    • @jacobbernard1393
      @jacobbernard1393 Před rokem +18

      @@Joenzinator Okay, that's a clearer point; the intergenerational impact of wealth is pretty astonishing, no doubt.
      My parents were destitute for much of my life, but within a single generation, I've managed to claw into the upper-middle class due to smart decisions, hard work, and most importantly, luck.
      It does interest me to consider how well my grandchildren could potentially live, as my family's future wealth cascades into their inheritances.

  • @lopypop
    @lopypop Před rokem +2762

    This video reminded me of a book called "The Velvet Rope Economy." It details how businesses from Disney World to Healthcare have changed their models to squeeze as much money out of the wealthy as possible while reducing quality of service for the vast majority of customers.

    • @planetsec9
      @planetsec9 Před rokem +277

      The entire world feels like this, like its a fucking gacha game and only the "whales" are given any concern because thats who they can squeeze the most money out of

    • @lloydwoodward9053
      @lloydwoodward9053 Před rokem +85

      Reminds me of being at an amusement park next in the regular joe line when all the fast express pass holders breeze by since I didn’t want to spend another $300/day.

    • @HAIDAYY
      @HAIDAYY Před rokem +4

      Interest, will check it out

    • @ccdecker
      @ccdecker Před rokem +84

      @@lloydwoodward9053 I only make $50k a year, but my friends talked me into spending the extra $300 to do the VIP version of Universal Studios Hollywood. Literally jogging past everyone standing in hour long lines and walking straight on to every attraction was a spectacular, *thrilling* experience. I'm never going back to regular admission, NEVER. I'll happily pay a huge premium to have a once-in-a-lifetime delightful memory and economize elsewhere.

    • @cloudkitt
      @cloudkitt Před rokem +144

      @@ccdecker until everyone gets them. Now you're back where you started. (of course, then they'll offer a double-express version for triple the original price)

  • @clangston3
    @clangston3 Před rokem +2365

    The ultra wealthy's travel being inconvienced by the super wealthy is devastating. I'll think about them next time I'm stuck in the middle seat while flying coach

    • @anthonydelfino6171
      @anthonydelfino6171 Před rokem +124

      thoughts and prayers for the ultra wealthy

    • @_annoyed4692
      @_annoyed4692 Před rokem +28

      The sad thing is... that must be pretty exactly how the 99,98% of Republicans that are not ultra-rich think, no?

    • @wolfgangkrauser9735
      @wolfgangkrauser9735 Před rokem

      lol

    • @nordiskkatt
      @nordiskkatt Před rokem +54

      Supposedly, 80% of the world's population has never flown in an airplane. So if it's something you routinely do, while you're not ultra wealthy, you're decidedly better off than most!

    • @stella-vu8vh
      @stella-vu8vh Před rokem +4

      @@nordiskkatt i have only flown on a plane one time, ever. And i literally can only do so if i use those shifty small puddle jumper tickets and get off midway, buying a ticket from say, new york to la to get off somewhere in the middel

  • @stinky324
    @stinky324 Před rokem +688

    You forgot to mention their trips to Epstien Island

    • @mjbaricua7403
      @mjbaricua7403 Před rokem +17

      Woah there, nice detour to something not related to the video, good job

    • @karensams994
      @karensams994 Před rokem +111

      @@mjbaricua7403the truth is uncomfortable isn’t it?

    • @mjbaricua7403
      @mjbaricua7403 Před rokem +5

      @@karensams994 not talking about the video is comfortable isn't it?

    • @lionlion2134
      @lionlion2134 Před rokem +1

      @@karensams994 lol not everyone is some pedo 😂

    • @Simon-nw9bf
      @Simon-nw9bf Před rokem +1

      Stop noticing things! It's a complete coincidence that some random pimp is close friends with all the world's wealthiest people. When Jeffrey and Bill get together for slumber parties they play video games and watch silly horror movies. They definitely do not rape any children.

  • @anthonydelfino6171
    @anthonydelfino6171 Před rokem +1079

    I think the yacht parking really makes an important point here. People don't really understand just how obscenely wealthy the wealthy really are. But the idea that they spend more than most people make in a year for a single night of parking their yacht at a dock is disgusting.

    • @NazriB
      @NazriB Před rokem

      Lies again? Jet And Car Not Name

    • @jdrancho1864
      @jdrancho1864 Před rokem +13

      That's why valet parkers put the high=dollar cars in front of the restaurant. Your Camry goes around back behind the building.

    • @anthonydelfino6171
      @anthonydelfino6171 Před rokem +54

      @@jdrancho1864 that.... in no way relates to what I said. I was commenting on the fact that a single night yacht parking is over $80,000. More for a single day than most people make in a year.

    • @jdrancho1864
      @jdrancho1864 Před rokem +1

      @@anthonydelfino6171 OK, but I read your comment in context of the video. It shows how the biggest vessels get pride of place, and the dinghys of mere millionaires get the less preferential anchorages.

    • @anthonydelfino6171
      @anthonydelfino6171 Před rokem +37

      @@jdrancho1864 thats.... still not the point. My comment is about how most people just can't parse how obscenely wealthy these people are when they can treat $80,000 the same way other people treat the $40 price tag for parking at a concert or festival.

  • @sks2000
    @sks2000 Před rokem +2646

    The most dead I ever felt inside was working as a private Jet mechanic. Thanks Wendover for bringing all those old memory's back to the surface.

    • @faustinpippin9208
      @faustinpippin9208 Před rokem +53

      why was it so bad?

    • @asdsdjfasdjxajiosdqw8791
      @asdsdjfasdjxajiosdqw8791 Před rokem +844

      @@faustinpippin9208 Seeing the rich spend more than your entire life's salary as if they're buying a loaf of bread is depressing.

    • @NaRhala
      @NaRhala Před rokem +25

    • @thewatchersofthewood3530
      @thewatchersofthewood3530 Před rokem +328

      And unless you are paid directly for your service you never get a cut of that money. When I was doing HVAC work in NYC I Damm well made sure to get part of those huge fees paid to the maintenance company I worked for. Eventually I was billing out about 50% of the ticket on jobs and the boss eventually was like "we need to put you on an hourly salary" I was like NOPE and left the next day!! I head from the dispatcher a while later the next 3 low wage techs he got were terrbile and the last one was driving the work van drunk and crashed it into a bus stop shelter and a line of parked cars then fled the scene, he later told the police and boss the van was stolen even though the keys were inside and his face was all smashed up like he was in a car accident! 😂

    • @occamschainsaw3450
      @occamschainsaw3450 Před rokem +230

      ​@@asdsdjfasdjxajiosdqw8791 You regularly spend more money then some people will make in their entire life. However you don't fancy thinking of people below you, do you?

  • @AbbreviatedReviews
    @AbbreviatedReviews Před rokem +1783

    I had no idea that rich people boated their boats to new boat spots.
    Of course, the "growth" of these industries is significant at the scales they currently exist, but not at scales that would benefit anyone but the people working directly within them.

    • @kaliyuga1476
      @kaliyuga1476 Před rokem +4

      Capitlaism??

    • @jasonreed7522
      @jasonreed7522 Před rokem +10

      While i understand the concept that since some boats aren't capable of crossing the ocean on their own power, the idea of a ship carrying other ocean worthy boats is still hilarious.
      Its just I'm used to the 20ft range of boats being considered unworthy of the open ocean, not something called a super yacht being unworthy of the ocean.

    • @jasons5916
      @jasons5916 Před rokem +12

      @@jasonreed7522 A lot of these yachts are also way bigger than the wooden ships with sails that crossed the ocean hundreds of years ago. Part of it is probably cost since you would have to pay for a crew and fuel to go across, plus I'm not sure how sturdy some of the fittings inside the yacht are. All their stuff might get tossed in 9ft seas and it would cost even more to repair everything.
      Still it's like they have a yacht, but they never actually sail on them. They are just expensive buildings on the water that they can show off.

    • @Trusty_Shellback
      @Trusty_Shellback Před rokem +9

      @@jasonreed7522 I've been working on large cargo ships for a little over 10 years now as a navigator. Ocean storms can get gnarly even for large cargo ships and it's not uncommon to change routes for bad storms. But as "Jason S" said, it's probably more about the cost. Large ships burn less fuel per ton-mile compared to smaller boats, so a large ship carrying yachts will burn less fuel than all the yachts all sailing on their own. Also, they probably save on the cost of manning the voyage and insurance for the crew.

    • @Edgemaster72
      @Edgemaster72 Před rokem +7

      Wouldn't want any of that money accidentally trickling out to the common folk

  • @rachelmcclain5367
    @rachelmcclain5367 Před rokem +39

    Please Wendover, please make more content on the economics of wealthy people. For some reason I am super intrigued

  • @JayBigDadyCy
    @JayBigDadyCy Před rokem +149

    One of the things I've learned about the super rich simply from living right by Palm Beach island is that things are never what they seem. As an example, people have this idea of Palm Beach island being so glorious and pristine. But there's a dark secret to that place. You see, here in south Florida, feral cats have been roaming for decades. So long that they are now an integral part of the urban ecosystem. But Palm Beach Island has no appreciation for these cats so they constantly are getting rid of them. And by doing so are removing the one thing that combats their dark secret. A massive, disgusting rat problem. I've worked with a bunch of pest control companies over the years and the stories they tell about some of these mega mansions and mansions being infested with rats is crazy.

    • @Mcbignuts
      @Mcbignuts Před rokem +5

      Why on earth would u want cats running around the place 😂😂😂, just get rid of the rats yourself, a few traps, some poison and an airgun is all u need
      U could always call a pest exterminator too if u got the cash to lose
      Ppl be thinking they need to live in a jungle to be free of rats 😂😂😂

    • @FUBBA
      @FUBBA Před 8 měsíci +5

      This happened on the island I live on in the Outer Banks. They even think the town released coyotes to kill the cats, which caused a rat explosion in 3-10 million dollar second homes.

    • @moogle68
      @moogle68 Před 2 měsíci +5

      @@Mcbignuts I don't think you understand how hard it is to exterminate rats in homes that have no one living in them, much less exterminating them from an entire city/region. It really does take a natural predator that operates and reproduces of it's own accord to hunt and kill pest infestations that cover such large areas. The people with those huge second homes are also usually busy people, or people that are more likely to not take calls about problems with their second home seriously until they want to go use it and find out first hand that they should've taken the warnings more seriously back when the issue was manageable/first noticed.

    • @izy0321
      @izy0321 Před 2 měsíci

      Yeah feral cats don’t seem so bad now

    • @djhogan2119
      @djhogan2119 Před měsícem +2

      I was expecting this to lead to something much more sinister than rats after reading all these other comments 😂

  • @appa609
    @appa609 Před rokem +2128

    What I learned today is that the prices of luxury stuff is not driven by supply and demand they're a form of gatekeeping to keep the billionaires feeling superior to the peasant millionaires.
    Actually I think that's true all the way down.

    • @Hession0Drasha
      @Hession0Drasha Před rokem +191

      Yes they are all children, fighting over the shiniest object, because it makes them feel the most special.

    • @ProcrastPerfection
      @ProcrastPerfection Před rokem +102

      That’s all exclusivity has ever been, to all classes

    • @vvolfbelorven7084
      @vvolfbelorven7084 Před rokem +31

      There you go. There's a price just in feeling only you can have it

    • @dariocallea3712
      @dariocallea3712 Před rokem +15

      Veblen goods

    • @emberthecatgirl8796
      @emberthecatgirl8796 Před rokem +17

      It’s the demand for low demand and lower supply

  • @thormaster06
    @thormaster06 Před rokem +920

    I run a boutique hotel in Dubrovnik, Croatia. We had extra rich clients book the entire hotel of 11 rooms for 12 weeks this spring and summer. One client booked the whole hotel for two weeks for him, his wife + driver and assistant. At any given moment there was staff of 30ish people for 4 guests.

    • @Novastar.SaberCombat
      @Novastar.SaberCombat Před rokem +57

      I know (well, knew) two people in Croatia. Digitally only, as, I live in the U.S. They both disappeared during this entire RUS v UKR thing. They were dirt poor. 😕
      Very interesting how the rich must live. Sounds extremely wasteful, just as I'd imagined.

    • @midladder
      @midladder Před rokem +12

      @@Novastar.SaberCombat dirt poor, sounds about right. The war thankfully doesn't affect us apart from inflation. Also if i had to work super hard for my money i'd be wasteful with it lmaoo

    • @DewTime
      @DewTime Před rokem +4

      That’s the dream right there

    • @marikata1565
      @marikata1565 Před rokem +33

      @@midladder lol you work super hard for the first million or so - the rest you get from breathing

    • @usainengland
      @usainengland Před rokem +30

      We’re the hotel staff tripping over each other? How ridiculous. I am disabled and I cannot afford someone to help me more than once a week. I could use help twice or three times a week with housekeeping, shopping and cooking. I would love to visit Dubrovnik. It looks like a beautiful place.

  • @feeeliiix4592
    @feeeliiix4592 Před rokem +42

    some idiots in a one-way submarine: _there is another_

  • @NimanyuRajAgrawal
    @NimanyuRajAgrawal Před rokem +38

    When I visited my grandpa's hometown(a small town in among our country's poorest states) I rode a bullock cart. In a farm.
    In a just recent travel, I was in Parvati Valley(Himachal Pradesh) backpacking with my friend in this freezing winter and the whole trip consisted of travelling by the local transport buses and doing treacherous treks up and down the 3 mountain-top villages we were visiting and staying(others had the option to hire a taxi to take them up, it was 3-5 km each).
    In another travel 8 yrs ago, my family was again in the Himalayas(Sangla Valley, near India-Tibet border) in summer. We ventured out to hike up a mountain near our stay, and on the way back, hitched a short ride with a dump truck back to the village. Those locals were the purest souls I have ever met. Never to be found in Delhi-like mega metros(where I live).
    In another travel 6 yrs ago, we were in Rajasthan, in remote desert, and stopped by the road to drink unpasteurised camel milk fresh from the source sold by a nomad herding his camels. He pumped it out there itself into our bottle. The next day, it was the turn for goat milk.
    I wonder if the excessively sheltered travels of such mega-rich can ever defeat such raw experiences.

    • @KD-ou2np
      @KD-ou2np Před 20 dny

      They can and will pay to do all that stuff, the rich loooove "raw" experiences. And they they pay for their private jet to take them back home the next week. Never having to really work to cover the cost of anything listed above. Makes you feel pretty numb just to think about it

  • @theheroweneededbutdidntdeserve

    It's hard to understand how secretive their hidden mansions are. My family has a small cabin in Michigan. I knew the neighbor had a lot of land but that was about it. A couple years ago the guy dies and the property goes up for sale. 8 million dollars.

    • @Heizenberg32
      @Heizenberg32 Před rokem +134

      Oh yeah. I worked for the census one year and was shocked to find rural McMansions no more than a mile or two from where I had lived much of my life.

    • @mikahundin
      @mikahundin Před rokem

      Typical mansions north of San Francisco are on the order of $100M+ . There's no benefit for wealthy to flaunt their wealth, usually only downside. Ordinary people have no clue what "rich" really means and how life changing it really is as they work for their week-to-week paychecks. It's obscene.

    • @Weromano
      @Weromano Před rokem +190

      Not to say that the guy wasn’t rich… but the super rich are laughing at that amount.

    • @uninterestedcat8429
      @uninterestedcat8429 Před rokem +26

      @@Weromano lol nah theyre asking "are you serious? 💀"

    • @rollinroby4920
      @rollinroby4920 Před rokem +65

      8 million isn't anywhere near the ultra rich, but I guess it depends on location. Certain houses along the West Coast can go easily go for $10 mil. I lived in an area where 1000+ Sq ft. houses were rarely under $1 mil, and there's even an active asking for a 3-story 3,500 Sq ft. for $10 mil.

  • @justandy333
    @justandy333 Před rokem +2135

    "I simply cannot afford to pay my workers a penny above the minimum wage", "Now please excuse me whilst I park my ship inside another ship, to save me the inconvenience of having to sail it"

    • @chromaticvisuelle
      @chromaticvisuelle Před rokem +21

      Exactly!

    • @giorgialadashvili4771
      @giorgialadashvili4771 Před rokem +137

      Truly amazing how's there never money for raising wages even a little bit, but there's always money to buy $100 million super yachts and $50 million private jets.

    • @ganjabobby
      @ganjabobby Před rokem +4

      @@giorgialadashvili4771 Both cost more, especially in Bezo's case

    • @giorgialadashvili4771
      @giorgialadashvili4771 Před rokem +10

      @@ganjabobby I know, I took general billionaire "averages."

    • @ticoguy05
      @ticoguy05 Před rokem +1

      @@ganjabobby exactly!!

  • @ApocalypseStyle
    @ApocalypseStyle Před 9 měsíci +28

    I just want to be able to afford to raise a family in a decent house and car, with access to healthy food and healthcare. It's becoming harder all the time and I can't help but feel like a lot of the money that used to be available to people like me is going now to support this sort of lifestyle.

    • @Ashley-il9wk
      @Ashley-il9wk Před 9 měsíci

      The salaries aren’t matching the living costs. The more you make, the more they take. So I’m confused how these people even get here…

    • @readyforlol
      @readyforlol Před 5 měsíci

      @@Ashley-il9wk Tax evasion.
      Check out the high-art market. People don't buy pieces of art for 40 000 000$+ just to look at it, or even brag to richer friends that they're richer, but to get them appraised too high, donate them to museums and enjoy a fat tax cut.
      Then, they use a fraction of that net profit to lobby so the laws that let them do it don't get stricken from the books, and so the people who are supposed to check the appraisals stay undefunded and overbooked.
      It's a net positive even after the lobbying and fines, so you can make tons of money without contributing to society by doing any useful work or even paying your fair share of taxes. And that's just ONE of the many means they use to not pay taxes.
      Do that enough times for enough cash, and you can subsidize your exhuberant lifestyle with poor people's tax money since you still benefit from public and subsidized infrastructure like water, sewers, electricity, internet, roads, ports and airports (among many others) without contributing for any of it.

  • @dixonbuttes6564
    @dixonbuttes6564 Před 11 měsíci +18

    These videos are some of the most important on the internet… keep up the great work.

  • @Mike-nu9uc
    @Mike-nu9uc Před rokem +2603

    I fly a private jet out of Texas (won’t specify the city/airport code). One day, the owner who happens to be a billionaire called us to fly his dogs to Florida, basically to drop them off and fly back to Texas.
    The aircraft I fly costs $14,000/hr, he dumped around $70,000 just to drop off his dogs.

    • @therearenoshortcuts9868
      @therearenoshortcuts9868 Před rokem +427

      should've kidnapped the dogs and held them for ransom LOL

    • @devilsfavorite999
      @devilsfavorite999 Před rokem +19

      So does Chelsea Handler and others.

    • @pbjtime321
      @pbjtime321 Před rokem +177

      It's unreal what we get paid as pilots. An average charter trip costs more than i make in a whole year doing part 135

    • @freedominsteadof1984
      @freedominsteadof1984 Před rokem +185

      Be grateful that people like this exist, otherwise you wouldn’t have a job.

    • @dickbutt7854
      @dickbutt7854 Před rokem +88

      Well he kind of is helping you save up to buy your first house....

  • @vincentschulz9355
    @vincentschulz9355 Před rokem +4692

    I always knew that billionaires were living very unsustainably, but this is just grotesque

    • @juanfo7307
      @juanfo7307 Před rokem +76

      Morbid

    • @oiartsun
      @oiartsun Před rokem +231

      'Grotesque' is right - I had no idea how disgusted I would be just to look at this degree of extravagance depicted on a map.

    • @mrblack888
      @mrblack888 Před rokem +27

      What an excellent choice of words.

    • @wothin
      @wothin Před rokem +3

      If you are from the west, you most likely live unsustainably too. Sure they are much worse, but you are not that better, especially considering there are much more of your kind.

    • @ImDenny_
      @ImDenny_ Před rokem +230

      I read about a person working on one of those yachts describing how they would prepare large amounts of luxurious breakfast, lunch and dinner every day, and then also throw it all away everyday beacuse the owner was never there. We are talking basically everyday all year every year, what a fucking waste.

  • @duunchannel
    @duunchannel Před rokem +90

    What's interesting about ultra-wealthy spending is they don't always spend to pursue a specific thing or experience, but more so because they want "one of a kind" experiences and to feel special because they can do it. Even if you're ultra wealthy, you won't really feel rich until you've blown a ton of money on something you don't need like a yacht just because you can. Without that feeling, being wealthy probably feels surprisingly empty.

    • @BabyDingo
      @BabyDingo Před rokem +2

      Oh no, they’re just humans who will one day die like us… 😂

    • @razielthagreat2109
      @razielthagreat2109 Před rokem +6

      Let us be the first to tell you, nothing fills us. Nothing entertains us quite enough, which is why our greed is never ending. And we will consume you. Don't worry, we are quite fair in the way we "extrapolate" wealth from you poors. -- The Oligarchy (YOU'RE WELCOME)

    • @seeingstars199
      @seeingstars199 Před 9 měsíci +2

      Laughs in ocean gate smhhhhh

    • @Domino13334
      @Domino13334 Před 8 měsíci

      The problem is that these rich people feel that they fail to reach the next level in wealth. Buying another art piece at 3 Million $ is something they already have accomplished. Buying one for 5 Million $ is not the next level. So to find satisfaction they spend their lifetimes to make even greater profits. Because a 30 Million $ artpiece is certainly more unique than one at 3-5 Million $.

    • @WhatsY0UTUB3
      @WhatsY0UTUB3 Před 8 měsíci +1

      cope

  • @lasvegasluca9509
    @lasvegasluca9509 Před rokem +32

    Every family have that one person whom will break their financial burden, hope you are the person, The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.successful people do daily what unsuccessful only do occasionally

    • @ningyen1444
      @ningyen1444 Před rokem

      Stock's are crashing, Bitcoin investments Right now will be at every wise individuals list, in a month you will be ecstatic with the decision you made today

    • @antoniolabrasca9069
      @antoniolabrasca9069 Před rokem

      @@ningyen1444 when you invest you're buying a day you don't have to work

    • @noahgonzalez9041
      @noahgonzalez9041 Před rokem

      You are right sir is obvious alot of people remain poor due to ignorance

    • @antoniowu5198
      @antoniowu5198 Před rokem

      @@ningyen1444 investing in crypto currency (Bitcoin) is the most profitable investment due to its current rise, huge profits and future benefits.

    • @allisonmatt6314
      @allisonmatt6314 Před rokem

      Bitcoin is the most profitable investment due to high profits

  • @balooko31
    @balooko31 Před rokem +780

    Imagine Bezos' girlfriend watching this and realizing that he told her he was working at the office when those 2 planes were actually in Hawaii...

    • @econojon
      @econojon Před rokem +71

      Once a cheater, always a cheater

    • @skyden24195
      @skyden24195 Před rokem +9

      Fyi, his girlfriend is Lauren Sanchez, a successful Los Angeles based television news reporter/personality.

    • @skyden24195
      @skyden24195 Před rokem +8

      btw, I mentioned who Bezo's girlfriend was because your humorous, suggested scenario made me think that since Lauren Sanchez is involved with the media there would be a great chance that she would find out. lol.

    • @isabellaangeline2175
      @isabellaangeline2175 Před rokem +36

      @@skyden24195 They both look like aliens. 👽

    • @alandoak5146
      @alandoak5146 Před rokem +59

      People are assuming she wants or expects a hetero-normative closed monogamous relationship. Despite his obnoxious personality, he probably gets plenty of suitors that offer any relationship style he wants.

  • @robertthaler2390
    @robertthaler2390 Před rokem +3846

    Ten years ago, my wife (then 54 years) and I (then 57years) bought an economy class plane ticket around the world. We planned out the itinerary ourselves and travelled for nearly five months with each a small suitcase: 2nd class trains in India, auto-rickshaws in Cambodia, canoe in Peru's rainforest, camped on Easter Island,. We stayed in hostels, pensions, and no-star hotels, ate street food, often cooked our own. And the people we met, both locals and fellow travellers. We had the time of our lives.
    I would think that those who travel about on super yachts or charter jets, who have someone plan for them a secret itinerary away from regular people and only associate with people like themselves simply miss the point of living. Boring. Not to share your seat on a bus with a goat or get overwhelmed by a crowd on a Beijing train platform or be befriended by a beggar who just wants to talk is to miss the better part of going somewhere.
    .

    • @ShahNawaz-co2km
      @ShahNawaz-co2km Před rokem +211

      It's what your preference is when you travel. If you want a pampered experience at the cost of losing the authentic experience then so be it. It all comes down to preference.

    • @jlg395
      @jlg395 Před rokem +273

      I agree. These people are not traveling. They're just "going".

    • @Vichu.
      @Vichu. Před rokem +30

      Damn that was nice

    • @NAT-turners-Revenge
      @NAT-turners-Revenge Před rokem +88

      You've got a lot to *LOSE!* being a billionaire .. I'm a basic middle class American, good job, home, etc.
      I would be targeted by scammers or kidnappers who assume all Americans are wealthy.
      Now, imagine being a real billionaire wishing u stayed on the golden path with security and such

    • @brianr6661
      @brianr6661 Před rokem +13

      This is how I travel. It's the only way to enjoy it.

  • @ballisticbomb
    @ballisticbomb Před rokem +15

    I low how we the consumer are blamed for all the problems but you have these people traveling more in a month than i will in my life

  • @wadeshaw8488
    @wadeshaw8488 Před 10 měsíci +3

    a prime example of this is a new ski resort here in Morgan Utah 500k membership fee, that you can only buy after building a home on the resort. Their planned 2 golf courses and ski resort will never be open to the public.

  • @Dawson449
    @Dawson449 Před rokem +3718

    Don't forget to bike to work! Saving the planet is a team effort

    • @aintnoway686
      @aintnoway686 Před rokem +16

      My job requires that I use my truck tho

    • @michaelmichael2382
      @michaelmichael2382 Před rokem +225

      @@aintnoway686 then bike to your truck lol

    • @antonroux6737
      @antonroux6737 Před rokem

      and get injured and lose your job that you need - yeah great idea...

    • @TesterAnimal1
      @TesterAnimal1 Před rokem +4

      I did for many years when I had to go to an office.
      Remote software work now.

    • @Petesworkshop2225
      @Petesworkshop2225 Před rokem +12

      What about my torn ACL?
      Can you spot me $40k so I can ride?

  • @IKEMENOsakaman
    @IKEMENOsakaman Před rokem +1073

    I once was upgraded to a premium economy class because I had a lot of milage. The toilet was broken near me, so I was assisted to the first class area to use the toilet. Man, that's when I noticed how shit my premium economy seats are.

    • @YuraEnjoji
      @YuraEnjoji Před rokem +285

      Social hierarchy-wise "premium economy" is a sugar coated way of saying "booster seats for peasants"

    • @FKS1994
      @FKS1994 Před rokem +137

      Economy class makes the airlines very little money. It's the business and first-class that they earn the majority of their profits. Because each plane can't fill up just with business/first-class customers, that's why economy exists: to fill up the rest of the plane.

    • @Mushroomlau
      @Mushroomlau Před rokem +47

      I once seen cabin crews block economy Passengers from leaving the aircraft before the business and first class. Damn I felt like economy peasants

    • @sirBrouwer
      @sirBrouwer Před rokem +38

      @@FKS1994 unless you fly with Ryanair or other ultra low budget lines. they do go for economie only. they do often succeed in filling the seats to 80% and higher. and often can use 1 aircraft about 3 to 5 flights every day.

    • @Euank
      @Euank Před rokem +11

      @@sirBrouwer I work for an aircraft company and most planes that around around the size of a 737 only have economy and maybe 6 business class seats

  • @joymae
    @joymae Před rokem +6

    The research you did for this video can be seen, well done

  • @turtlecheese8
    @turtlecheese8 Před 10 měsíci +4

    Me watching my paper straw disintegrates in a glass of water as a billionaire ships his yacht.

  • @relaxedpenny604
    @relaxedpenny604 Před rokem +527

    Imagine buying a massive boat to sail the seas and then having another boat have to carry your boat across those same seas to go to a boat club where people admire how big your boat is only for someone slightly poorer than you to buy a boat so you have to freeze yourself in Antarctica because you want to look richer is truly the pinnacle of human evolution

    • @isunlloaoll
      @isunlloaoll Před rokem +5

      We have truly made it! well, for the 0.01% of us. 🤮

    • @Shinkajo
      @Shinkajo Před rokem +10

      You may be joking but that literally is the pinnacle of our evolution and it's a sad farce.

    • @zaco-km3su
      @zaco-km3su Před rokem +4

      More like sail the shores or rivers. These boats aren't great for the sea at large or oceans. They can sail quite easily if the waters are calm but they don't stay too calm for long and going too far into the sea will be risky. Storms will be worse the farther you go from the shore. That being said....this is exaggerated.

    • @anyexpat
      @anyexpat Před rokem +9

      You do not drive your Supercar thousands of miles, you get it transported and collect it when you land, same thing.

    • @TesterAnimal1
      @TesterAnimal1 Před rokem +3

      Super yacht owners dont travel on their yachts.
      They have them travel to a place they want to take a vacation at then fly there.
      See the eSysman Superyachts CZcams channel. It’s an eye opener!

  • @mrblack888
    @mrblack888 Před rokem +1844

    "as long as it's legal..." I think we can all agree that people with this kind of money are getting a whole lot of illegal things done too. For an extra price, of course.

    • @MentalEdge
      @MentalEdge Před rokem +75

      Stuff like this makes my blood boil. These people live as if being able to afford something automatically means it is also deserved.

    • @devanshsinhal3490
      @devanshsinhal3490 Před rokem +47

      like they say "it's not a ticket; it's the price for premium parking"

    • @anthonydelfino6171
      @anthonydelfino6171 Před rokem

      Jeffery Epstein pretty much proves this statement true.

    • @jdrancho1864
      @jdrancho1864 Před rokem +20

      Legal or illegal is a matter of definition. Cruiseships have to lock the casino doors while in port. As soon as the ship is in international waters, it's faites vos jeux.

    • @joaohen
      @joaohen Před rokem

      Epstein didn't kill himself

  • @kingflumph5968
    @kingflumph5968 Před rokem +12

    I can remember an article talking about how one of Caitlin Jenner's hangar neighbors at a private airport said he was moving to Arizona so that he didn't have to look at poor people as often as he did in California.
    Meanwhile there are schools in Baltimore city that frequently have to close when it gets too hot because they don't have a/c and it's unsafe to have kids in them for a whole day.
    "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that alm men are created equal" indeed.

    • @Gebri3l
      @Gebri3l Před rokem

      Created equal but performe our own ways . Not every dude can be mandigo but unlike mandigo we don't need to be born with it, we can go and get what we want if we put our backs to it.

    • @kingflumph5968
      @kingflumph5968 Před rokem +2

      @@Gebri3l that is sometimes true. But what of the people who go out and work very hard for what they want and don't succeed?

    • @toomanymarys7355
      @toomanymarys7355 Před 22 dny

      Baltimore spends a ton of money per student. It's just all corrupt, because the people of Baltimore happily vote for corrupt politicians as look as they are the right color and are in the right party. Baltimore 100% deserves the leadership it has.

  • @isayahdurst9330
    @isayahdurst9330 Před rokem +26

    You forgot to mention “one-way”submarines

  • @matthewjamespintoewing8773
    @matthewjamespintoewing8773 Před rokem +1206

    Social status and connections is a huge thing for rich people. I have met some very wealthy people who were dumb as dirt, but if all their friends are mega millionaires, it’s likely they get many great money-making opportunities.

    • @davidvaxo6667
      @davidvaxo6667 Před rokem +214

      Being rich = doing the right thing at the right time + knowing the right people
      or
      just being born rich.
      No amount of brainpower, hardwork or persistence can top those things unfortunately. All those self made stories of rags to riches we hear are given so much attention because they are rare af

    • @cyzcyt
      @cyzcyt Před rokem +33

      @@davidvaxo6667 when then they be like. We worked hard for the generational wealth we have. You guys don't know hardship like we went through

    • @einarabelc5
      @einarabelc5 Před rokem

      @@cyzcyt You worked for the scraps of the American Neo Liberal Empire that allows this to happen on the first place. ANd don't worry in the Soviet Union it was practically the same. The human nature never changes.

    • @vulgarsage
      @vulgarsage Před rokem +17

      @@cyzcyt this is a goofy comment, by your theory alone you don’t know the hardship either if you’re privileged with previous generational wealth. No, working hard is not always enough for everybody or else many more would be well off. But society will always continue to make you think so and believe in the “American dream” narrative

    • @KanyeTheGayFish69
      @KanyeTheGayFish69 Před rokem

      @Spin Lock not the ones at the top

  • @TheRealNeill
    @TheRealNeill Před rokem +2202

    I was backpacking around Europe and, by chance, scored a free ticket to the Monaco Super Yacht Show. Most people there are pretty old so I got along well with the Lamborghini models, going back to talk to them several times. At the end of the day, there's an after party for the super wealthy, and they invited me as one of their guests. It was like something from a Bond movie. Free everything; with the party drifting from one superyacht to the next. I met a German industrialist, who reeked of money, who thought it was great that I was an Australian Air Force Fighter Aircraft Technician, and not rich. The whole day was a surreal experience :)

    • @and_I_am_Life_the_fixer_of_all
      @and_I_am_Life_the_fixer_of_all Před rokem +45

      That's really cool!

    • @TheRealNeill
      @TheRealNeill Před rokem +183

      @@and_I_am_Life_the_fixer_of_all It was. And let me tell you, Lamborghini aren't skimping with their models either :)

    • @and_I_am_Life_the_fixer_of_all
      @and_I_am_Life_the_fixer_of_all Před rokem +18

      @@TheRealNeill how did you score the ticket?

    • @TheRealNeill
      @TheRealNeill Před rokem +343

      @@and_I_am_Life_the_fixer_of_all I think they're very expensive as they don't want riff raff in there. I met an English guy who had stolen three tickets when he quit his job at a fancy car dealership. He'd already given one to a German guy and I got the other. Both of them were using the show to make contacts because they wanted to become supercar salesmen.
      We met an old American guy who had sold cars to Hollywood stars of the past, so we hung out with him for a lot of the day. People thought he was uber rich and we were his grandsons (we are all quite tall with dark hair) so they treated us like royalty all day. Good fun.

    • @TheRealNeill
      @TheRealNeill Před rokem +270

      @Spin Lock No. I speak well , was well dressed in a casual, Summer in the Mediterranean way and was wearing my gold Omega watch I inherited. People didn't know I wasn't rich. The assumption, at party like that, especially when you're with outrageously beautiful models, is you are.

  • @GeoffreyHale
    @GeoffreyHale Před rokem

    Very cool information. Thanks for putting this video together.

  • @LMays-cu2hp
    @LMays-cu2hp Před rokem +1

    Thank you. Merry Christmas and Happy New Years to you!!

    • @LMays-cu2hp
      @LMays-cu2hp Před 7 měsíci

      Very very nice on the Thanksgiving Weekend of this year.

  • @Poverty_Welder
    @Poverty_Welder Před rokem +194

    Meanwhile I as a welder making 12.50 an hour watching this on my lunch break eating air pudding and drinking water. I'm doing so good

    • @hobbesrl
      @hobbesrl Před rokem

      And they’ll replace us with someone who will work for less first chance they can get

    • @faustinpippin9208
      @faustinpippin9208 Před rokem +11

      12.5 is pretty good, where I live people make so much in 1 day and we have similar prices like in the us and some things even more expensive

    • @garysheppard4028
      @garysheppard4028 Před rokem +13

      Be proud that you've got an honest job.

    • @yagruumbagaarn
      @yagruumbagaarn Před rokem +20

      If the workers take a notion
      They can stop all speeding trains
      Every ship upon the oceans
      They can tie with mighty chains
      Every wheel in the creation
      Every nine and every mill
      Fleets and armies of all nations
      Will at our command stand still

    • @billem16
      @billem16 Před rokem +16

      None of these uber wealthy people are truly happy inside. I promise you if you were able to scan the hearts of these uber rich and then my elderly neighbor who barely leaves her own neighborhood and bakes pies for her neighbors… her heart is happier

  • @patrickshaw411
    @patrickshaw411 Před rokem +600

    Here I was feeling guilty for driving 5 minutes to get fast food and bring it back home.

    • @reptongeek
      @reptongeek Před rokem +4

      Me too. I've just come back from an eight day holiday in London worrying how much it cost

    • @thewatchersofthewood3530
      @thewatchersofthewood3530 Před rokem +17

      I used to feel bad driving into the office to avoid the subway and mass transit as my company has forced us remote worker in but now I feel a little less bad as I know my fuel sipping diesel burns nothing in 1 year copaired to these private jest on 1 trip.

    • @Hyperdriveuk
      @Hyperdriveuk Před rokem +35

      Feeling guilty by design. Ofc the people with power like it that way ;-).

    • @brennantheler5705
      @brennantheler5705 Před rokem

      Understand that 15 companies (owned by these people) produce 70% of emissions. Your average car trip is peanuts compared to the mountains of CO2 Bezos individually, let alone Amazon, belches into the atmosphere. They want to make you feel guilty so that you impoverish yourself in the name of environmentalism rather than they stop living this ridiculous lifestyle.

    • @albetroz_
      @albetroz_ Před rokem +11

      Driving only for 5 minutes? Why don't you just walk?

  • @puffinjuice
    @puffinjuice Před 5 měsíci +3

    Wow, not only do they fly around willy nilly, but they also have two planes following eachothers tails. They could at least travel in the same jet!

  • @thomasrobertfitness
    @thomasrobertfitness Před 2 měsíci +2

    Today I was traveling from Zürich to Budapest on a train, while babies were crying, drunk people were shouting whilst watching this video… pretty surreal experience.

  • @relaxedpenny604
    @relaxedpenny604 Před rokem +117

    Imagine getting pissed that your poorer friend buys a bigger boat than you so you charter a boat to carry your boat to Antarctica to freeze yourself. And imagine using a boat to bring that boat to a poor country like Nigeria or Mozambique where you know your boat cost more than the GDP of the country and you only go because poorer millionares aren't in Zimbabwe. Truly one of the most moments ever.

  • @undercoverduck
    @undercoverduck Před rokem +2851

    I can feel myself radicalising with every passing second of this video

  • @_Pyroon_
    @_Pyroon_ Před rokem +8

    Bruh... A huge bump in yacht sales during 2021- wonder how many politicians got one through conflicts of interest.

    • @maknavickas
      @maknavickas Před rokem +1

      Trillions of dollars were transferred up during the "pandemic" response just in America alone.

  • @zacnbullock
    @zacnbullock Před rokem

    1:48 that yacht hone, my dad charactered that yacht last year

  • @games1004
    @games1004 Před rokem +204

    5:35, I started working for a related charter company to these as a pilot after the regional airline I had previously worked for went bankrupt in 09/2020. It was honestly eye-opening seeing the vast differences between flying the airlines (which serve a cup of drink and a small snack on anything

    • @fredmdea785
      @fredmdea785 Před rokem +2

      I believe most airlines will sell you food in short flights, but they eill undoubtly charge you a lot for it

    • @th9006
      @th9006 Před rokem +1

      ExpressJet?

    • @Chop_Suey
      @Chop_Suey Před rokem

      I worked for them too

    • @Ashley-il9wk
      @Ashley-il9wk Před 9 měsíci

      I was thinking about flying private 🫤 but I know it’s a whole different ball game

  • @arfriedman4577
    @arfriedman4577 Před 9 měsíci +1

    I also don't like being on a boat, yacht or cruise unless it's close to land.
    In late 1980s or early 1990s, my friends boyfriend (a few years older than me and owned a good business he started from scratch) bought a boat. One day a few people and I went on his boat. I believe he turned off the motor when we stopped to hang out in the Atlantic Ocean far from shore.
    The motor didn't want to start again and I cant recall if he had a way to call for help. Either we got the engine started again or another boat saw us and helped us. I was terrified.
    I used to go on lake paddleboats as a child. In 1994, a date took me to the canoe and paddleboat in Central Park, NYC. I couldn't do either. We had to get out of the water. I let him enjoy because I didn't want the money wasted.

  • @orinblank2056
    @orinblank2056 Před 5 měsíci +3

    This really just drives home that the truly rich people live in an entirely different world than everyone else. So many of these thingsr are things that I had never even imagined. I've thought about the cool stuff I would do if I had a billion dollars, but this is way stranger than anything I could imagine. I think about being able to camp and be in nature whenever I want, see concerts, and travel the world for sightseeing. Shipping a yacht across the Atlantic and going to Wimbledon aren't even things I would consider

  • @TimeBucks
    @TimeBucks Před rokem +521

    Great piece, very well done

  • @anthonyc8499
    @anthonyc8499 Před rokem +336

    The support network and logistics behind a billionaire have to be incredible. Some sort of dedicated office staff for household management, travel planning, security arrangements, etc. Elon Musk said at one point he had a manager for his 7 nannies.

    • @anthonyc8499
      @anthonyc8499 Před rokem +23

      @@LoanwordEggcorn a wendover video would be far more interesting

    • @catatonicbug7522
      @catatonicbug7522 Před rokem +9

      I know there are degrees you can get in "estate planning". I wonder how one gets an education that trains them to handle billionaire logistics.

    • @hello-friend990
      @hello-friend990 Před rokem +38

      A friend worked for a Saudi royal living alone. He had more than 100 support staff. e.g a bartender/barista in case there was an event, a landscape manager, chefs for the staff etc. My friend's job was to make small talk with the royal whenever he was summoned. I wouldn't have believed it if hadn't heard it first hand

    • @B-...
      @B-... Před rokem +40

      The support network for billionaires is incredible. It's called the rest of us.

    • @NisargShah95
      @NisargShah95 Před rokem +17

      @@hello-friend990 if its in saudi its not support staff. they're called slaves.

  • @pureracekarting6164
    @pureracekarting6164 Před rokem +2

    Bro me and my family go to st barths every year and have way way less than 30 million but we have seen/met with some ultra high roller looking people

  • @fluffy-puffy-puppy
    @fluffy-puffy-puppy Před 10 měsíci +3

    12:41 Ultra wealthy people are travelling to 'disappear', as the camera pans to a submersibble 💀

  • @abcd-gg6jz
    @abcd-gg6jz Před rokem +409

    I can't believe it took me all these years to finally see the mountains in your logo resemble the letter W. Very good drawing

  • @technicallythecenteroftheu1349

    If I didn't want to get out the guillotine before, I sure as hell do now

    • @wothin
      @wothin Před rokem

      Just remember, if you are from the west, would are probably among the 10% richest people.
      Basically rich people complaining about the super rich. Which is funny to say the least

    • @M3ganwillslay
      @M3ganwillslay Před rokem +2

      Ha ha ..

    • @clray123
      @clray123 Před rokem

      Because of what? Envy of the moronic?

    • @growingup15
      @growingup15 Před rokem +5

      guillotine sales just went up

    • @stoutyyyy
      @stoutyyyy Před rokem +7

      I for one don’t want to murder anybody out of jealousy

  • @overhead7045
    @overhead7045 Před rokem +7

    This video hits different today

  • @purpurina5663
    @purpurina5663 Před rokem +36

    The incredible part of this is that I feel ZERO jealous of that lifestyle, and I suspect I'm not alone there. What a non-life.

    • @kalissandra
      @kalissandra Před rokem +6

      once upon a time in my younger years i was jealous of the ridiculously wealthy. But that was before I knew what their personalities were like. Now that I am older and wiser I would not want to hang out with those people. If I were ultra rich, I would avoid all those party places

    • @Gebri3l
      @Gebri3l Před rokem +1

      ​@@kalissandra the parties are "work" the untra rich naver really rest, they're working 24/7 thsts why they're ultra rich

    • @rishimehta4486
      @rishimehta4486 Před rokem

      @@Gebri3l Bro stfu. Literally licking billionaires shoes in every comment.

    • @zyzzenjoyer5118
      @zyzzenjoyer5118 Před 9 měsíci

      @@Gebri3lif you are ultra rich then what is the point of working?

    • @toomanymarys7355
      @toomanymarys7355 Před 22 dny

      ​@@zyzzenjoyer5118You usually don't become ultra wealthy unless you're driven obsessively to work. If they stopped, they'd likely go completely mad within a few months.

  • @n0tareas0n
    @n0tareas0n Před rokem +113

    Let's take the bus so these people can make our combined carbon print in a week

  • @javianjohnson8746
    @javianjohnson8746 Před rokem +393

    Man the information that YOU get your hands on for these videos is truly top-notch stuff. Thank you for your hard work Wendover

    • @williamyoung9401
      @williamyoung9401 Před rokem +8

      The Russian Tsars had a lot of money and palaces too before the People rose up...

    • @Praisethesunson
      @Praisethesunson Před rokem +4

      @@williamyoung9401 Revolution comrade.

    • @zaco-km3su
      @zaco-km3su Před rokem +5

      This is publicly available information.

    • @olivercharles2930
      @olivercharles2930 Před rokem

      @@zaco-km3su Sure, but this is specifically easy to aquire publicly available information.

    • @Kattalanonyt
      @Kattalanonyt Před 8 měsíci +3

      I'm sorry but this video is terrible. I have met many, many ultra wealthy individuals. Like he said at the beginning of the video, it's all privatized. Some ultra wealthy don't like to travel that much. There is no "standardized" way for these people to travel and all the destinations he listed are not even a fraction of the places these people travel to. These people have so much money they literally do anything they want. Some like to travel like this. Many don't.

  • @realpropertymangement7640

    Lol.... the average Joe/Jane has no idea what the UHNW lifestyle experience is like. I worked for and traveled with an UHNW individual for years. It was certainly work but also an incredible experience. Regularly visited many of the locations mentioned. Btw, his super yachts (plural) were too large to fit on the transport ships. They repositioned on their own. Once in location, he'd fly into the closest larger airport on one of his (multiple) global capable jets. A helicopter from the yacht would meet him and take him to the boat. Nice lifestyle! Of course for me, jet lag and short nights were the norm. But then, I was but a minion!

  • @windrimondo
    @windrimondo Před rokem +3

    up close gorillas in Rowanda, overland treks to the south pole, or imploded in a submarine around the Titanic.

  • @jer103
    @jer103 Před rokem +472

    I find it fascinating to learn what it's like when "money means nothing".

    • @amyrenee1361
      @amyrenee1361 Před rokem +67

      Money means everything to them. It's the rest of the world, the community, and all other life that means nothing to them.

    • @jer103
      @jer103 Před rokem +49

      Well, you can look at this 2 ways:
      1. They have enough money where they can do anything with ease. They can do anything without every running out of money.
      2. They always want to accumulate more money. It doesn't matter how much they have. They always want more.

    • @amyrenee1361
      @amyrenee1361 Před rokem +20

      @@jer103 imagine if we just did away with the value of money and made our communities dependent on work and cooperation rather than paper? These people would become powerless overnight. Those with good work ethic and good morals would naturally rise up the ladder of hierarchy and those who lack integrity and good works would plummet to the bottom. What makes the world go round is work, not money. These corporate elites just bamboozled everyone into doing the work for them while they sit back and reap the rewards. Reality is, your greatest assets are your skills. The system just blinds you to this fact.

    • @ohjahohfrick9837
      @ohjahohfrick9837 Před rokem +9

      @@amyrenee1361 Then I'll just take the dirt out of a hole while my friend throws it back in. That's hard work AND cooperation! Or we'll go and dump used car batteries into the ocean near corral reefs, that's some hard work man those things are heavy. Of course we'll be doing this all by hand because if we were to use tools that'd be less work!

    • @jasonreed7522
      @jasonreed7522 Před rokem +13

      @@amyrenee1361 money exists to simplify the barter economy (which is the closest i know of to what you are describing).
      Instead of trying to equate how many buildings designed to apples grown we invented money backed by its intrinsic value (gold, silver, electrum, copper, gems, shells, salt pucks, coco, ect.) Kings would eventually start minting coins which had a standard mass of a given material which was the first currency but was heavy and inconvenient. And then banks became a thing and made paper notes that could be traded for gold stored in said bank by whoever holds the note and this bank note system evolved into paper money. And now we live in the age of digital banking where gold can sit in a handful of banks vaults and through secure communications its ownership can be dynamically changed without even bothering to physically move the gold while electronically adjusting account balances.
      This isn't meant to excuse the flaws with money as a concept, just point out that its useful to everyone even if some people exploit it to get away with awful things.
      Edit: and now money isn't backed by physical objects and instead runs on trust/belief that it has any value greater than the linin its printed on. (Paper money isn't technically made of paper)

  • @Mattman993
    @Mattman993 Před rokem +24

    “We’re people just like you”
    -a person fundamentally nothing like us

  • @lewisjames4268
    @lewisjames4268 Před rokem +1

    Wimbilton is a great for tennis

  • @bntagkas
    @bntagkas Před rokem +19

    this feels like an ad on why you should become a billionaire

  • @ch33zer
    @ch33zer Před rokem +679

    Nice of Sam to make a video showing us what a day in his life is like, and what that youtube money can buy.

  • @Sciencephily
    @Sciencephily Před rokem +232

    Even if it's considered ridiculous. I once attended an event for people considered the ultra rich. Not billionaire rich but most of them had like the video said around 30 to 40 million each. It was when I was younger, and with my grandparents all I can say is that it reminded me of those anime noble parties. Sceming, flattery to high heavens, and $1000 dollar liquid everywhere. It was definitely an experiance I won't forget. It was like walking through a portal too a different dimension where casual conversations could literally create or destroy Millions of dollars in minutes.

    • @Praisethesunson
      @Praisethesunson Před rokem +12

      They all get the wall.

    • @zaco-km3su
      @zaco-km3su Před rokem +5

      There's no "ultra rich". There's only rich. If you don't have over $700 million, you're not rich. You are wealthy if you have $30 million.

    • @someusername121
      @someusername121 Před rokem +34

      @@zaco-km3su Disagree. When you have so much money you can blow a billion dollars every day and probably not see your net worth decrease you're on a different plane of existence.

    • @deusexaethera
      @deusexaethera Před rokem +13

      @@Praisethesunson : The billionaires own the wall, the guns, and the blindfolds. They'll rent them to you for a reasonable fee.

    • @Praisethesunson
      @Praisethesunson Před rokem

      @@deusexaethera Capitalists will sell us the rope we use to hang them.

  • @clintonezeh7556
    @clintonezeh7556 Před 10 měsíci

    This video really puts things into perspective.

  • @alex_zetsu
    @alex_zetsu Před rokem +11

    I remember one guy who lost $35 billion in the pandemic because a lot of stocks went down. It was mostly about what he thought about the finance markets. But one funny thing I read was about how his wife insisted on cutting some of their expenses despite the fact that they were still really rich. In the end, of course the wife won out and they sold most of their jets and on almost all their flights don't even use the last private jet but take commercial first class. He even endorsed a few airlines saying that had he known what they were like, he wouldn't bother with a private jet if those airlines had a direct route at the exact time he wanted a flgiht.

  • @glenjamieson2524
    @glenjamieson2524 Před rokem +105

    Hey Sam, can you do a video on the economics and logistics on the guillotine industry next?

  • @mczeljk
    @mczeljk Před rokem +508

    If you were ever wondering if there’s such a thing as „having too much money“…THIS! This is it!

    • @SaveMoneySavethePlanet
      @SaveMoneySavethePlanet Před rokem +64

      Seriously. When he mentioned that the best spots for yachts were regarded as the best because people could see your yacht from the side instead of just the back….I just about died.
      There are real problems in the world and these rich people who can do the most to help are just worried about parking their yacht in the best way to make other people jealous!!!

    • @g.starkiller6354
      @g.starkiller6354 Před rokem +14

      @@SaveMoneySavethePlanet funny thing is, "normal" people are exactly the same... People are just upset when rich people do it because they *are* jealous lol

    • @finn8518
      @finn8518 Před rokem +35

      @@g.starkiller6354 there‘s a difference. yes, our problems are also silly compared to billions of people. but to say that those things are the same is just silly and achieves nothing.

    • @g.starkiller6354
      @g.starkiller6354 Před rokem +13

      @@finn8518 it's on a different scale for sure, but still the same stuff. Why do people buy clothes made thousands of miles away? Because their friends will say "oh that looks so cute" (women in this case lol)
      Same goes for vacations, their cars, houses, IPhones...
      It's not that I'm saying anyone is a bad person because of their behavior. But I'm saying both, average income individuals and high net worth individuals, don't care about the (ecological) price for what they want to achieve: Being liked and, or successful.
      What does upset me is that most only blame people with lots of money, and pretend to not be part of the problem at all. Same goes for those multi billionaires who tell us to not go on vacations but own multiple jets lol. Just that the UHNWIs don't voice it as aggressively (msot of the time)
      Of course not everyone is like that in neither income bracket though, and I think the only way to move to the future is to work together instead of against each other - regardless of income (and most other differences ofc)

    • @RJT80
      @RJT80 Před rokem

      If you took all the US billionaires money it would run the US government for 8 months. Perhaps it's not the very successful who we should have a problem with but a government who put us 31 trillion dollars in debt by spending our money like drunken sailors. Hundreds of billions of which isn't even spent here at home every year.

  • @jasonshen584
    @jasonshen584 Před rokem

    "Alright"
    *Pulls out scythe and hammer*
    "Let's do it"

  • @jameslippincott7440
    @jameslippincott7440 Před rokem

    Thank you for the video. Personally, I found the script slightly confusing but still interesting.

  • @Sn0wy_TV
    @Sn0wy_TV Před rokem +123

    All that flying and yet me driving my car sown the street is what’s killing the planet

    • @honkhonkler7411
      @honkhonkler7411 Před rokem +6

      Now you get it

    • @noprox1322
      @noprox1322 Před rokem +5

      You see you have cracked the code my friend

    • @PickleRicksFATASSCOUSIN
      @PickleRicksFATASSCOUSIN Před rokem +11

      Trains gotta make a comeback in america...

    • @Cargo_Bay
      @Cargo_Bay Před rokem

      Every little bit counts

    • @kenkiser36
      @kenkiser36 Před rokem +1

      They want you riding a bike or using an electric car because they need all the "dirty energy" for themselves. They don't want to "save the planet"

  • @thewatchersofthewood3530
    @thewatchersofthewood3530 Před rokem +212

    I work right of Wall street in NYC and I see the excessive wealth all the time in many different ways. The fact that a store front fairly small commercial space is listed at $44,000 a month shows the huge inequality in the world!

    • @clray123
      @clray123 Před rokem +11

      This is what I call nominal inequality. When you can buy/sell a piece of crap for $44,000 a month, it still remains a piece of crap.

    • @thewatchersofthewood3530
      @thewatchersofthewood3530 Před rokem +9

      @@clray123 yes exactly. If this space was in Blackwater Oklahoma it would be $400 a month. Even if its not right I understand that in a major city rents are higher but not $44,000 higher.

    • @agme8045
      @agme8045 Před rokem +21

      @@thewatchersofthewood3530 it’s not like they charge more money because it’s new york and new york is a nice city. That commercial space in New York will generate 100 times more revenue than the same one in Oklahoma (if not more). If they really were the same, everyone would just rather open their business in Oklahoma

    • @s0nnyburnett
      @s0nnyburnett Před rokem

      That's called New York syndrome where flooded old rat infested crime ridden tiny spaces go for big money because "NYC BABY!"

    • @RJT80
      @RJT80 Před rokem +12

      "Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free."
      If you took all the US billionaires money it would run the US government for 8 months. Perhaps it's not the very successful who we should have a problem with but a government who put us 31 trillion dollars in debt by spending our money like drunken sailors. Hundreds of billions of which isn't even spent here at home every year.

  • @Gabrocol
    @Gabrocol Před rokem

    It ain't Wendover without tons of planes

  • @arsalan2231
    @arsalan2231 Před rokem +92

    The yatch carrier actually has my jaws on the fucking floor. That's... that's a whole other level of insanity lmao. Jesus, I almost had a stroke when I heard that. If this isn't like decadence stretched to a record breaking length then I don't know what else could be.

    • @johnjames7332
      @johnjames7332 Před rokem +9

      The perfect ship to “accidently” sink

    • @LowJSamuel
      @LowJSamuel Před rokem

      Wait until you hear about all the giant container ships that make the journey from China to America that are loaded from top to bottom with cheap, disposable crap that nobody needs.

    • @ah244895
      @ah244895 Před rokem +9

      The yacht carrier takes many yachts in one trip. It would be worse for the environment, if you are worried about such things, to have them all sail across separately.

    • @arsalan2231
      @arsalan2231 Před rokem

      @@ah244895 no it’s not even the just environment.
      I don’t understand how you could spend hundreds of millions, if not billions, on a SEAFARING vessel that does not fare well in seas lol
      There are multiple layers of retardation at work here…

    • @leedirtybriches
      @leedirtybriches Před rokem

      Engineering Gone Wild

  • @andrewleonardi3351
    @andrewleonardi3351 Před rokem +166

    I lived in Saint Martin for a while early in the year and saw Jeff's Yacht there with the attached helipad. Saint Barts tiny runway means that Saint Martin's SXM airport turns into a massive plane parking lot for the busy months. Amazing to see it

    • @KayJblue
      @KayJblue Před rokem +5

      Same, from Sxm and it’s fun to see. I remember seeing Trump in the 2000’s too 😅.

    • @konrad1916
      @konrad1916 Před rokem +1

      For I passed on to you, as of first importance, the account I had received, that Christ died for our sins, as the Scriptures foretold, that he was buried, that on the third day he was raised from the dead, as the Scriptures foretold 1 Corinthians 15

  • @mellowverse2275
    @mellowverse2275 Před 2 měsíci

    Adventures huh, reminds me of those oceangate people

  • @JeffreyGibson-kr8iy
    @JeffreyGibson-kr8iy Před rokem

    What program did you use to for that map graphic?

  • @ThCp__
    @ThCp__ Před rokem +144

    I remember reading comics about comically expensive, ultra-exclusive experiences for rich people. Reality always manages to surpass fiction.

  • @swumbles
    @swumbles Před rokem +81

    LESSON FROM THIS VIDEO: create a business that caters exclusively to billionaires and overcharges the hell out of them

    • @thetheatreorgan168
      @thetheatreorgan168 Před rokem

      exactly

    • @Bundpataka
      @Bundpataka Před rokem +12

      Apparently the ultra-rich are also ultra stingy a lot of times. They will fight you if they feel like you’re charging them even a single dollar extra

    • @swumbles
      @swumbles Před rokem +1

      @@Bundpataka also tips 😭

    • @johnvr1
      @johnvr1 Před rokem +8

      @@Bundpataka Yup. Once shared a taxi with one of them and he asked the driver for 30 cents back instead of rounding the tip of to the nearest dollar. His housemaid also called him “cheap.”

    • @Owlr4ider
      @Owlr4ider Před rokem +8

      Yeah but be prepared to have nerves of steel and extreme patience as these billionaires are also incredibly demanding massive a-holes. If you ever worked any job with customers, be it a shop clerk, customer support agent or whatever else, than you will know just how bad regular people are as customers. Now multiply that by like a million to see how incredibly awful it is to have a billionaire as your customer. Now do that non stop. So yeah much easier said than done but if you do manage to do it than yeah you can rake in the big bucks squeezing money out of people who literally grow it on trees.

  • @deusexaethera
    @deusexaethera Před rokem +8

    I will never have to worry about any of this. I feel much more relaxed now.
    _[goes back to eating his can of beans]_

  • @arspsychologia4401
    @arspsychologia4401 Před rokem +59

    It's a shame that people don't realize who these rich people are or the reasons behind their wealth.

    • @ramenomirice2767
      @ramenomirice2767 Před rokem +3

      Do you ??

    • @arspsychologia4401
      @arspsychologia4401 Před rokem +6

      @@ramenomirice2767 Yes, I at least know enough to be considered irritating. There is a certain tribalism involved up there at the wealthiest level, and it goes beyond how that word is traditionally defined.

    • @winnershandbook1069
      @winnershandbook1069 Před rokem +1

      @@arspsychologia4401 cry

    • @arspsychologia4401
      @arspsychologia4401 Před rokem +1

      @@winnershandbook1069 nah, don't feel like it

    • @ferskenmjam252
      @ferskenmjam252 Před 9 měsíci

      Jews

  • @DiederikAms
    @DiederikAms Před rokem +25

    “Nobody ever needs a yacht” is a very poignant realisation one yacht dealer once said. Smiling all the way to the bank, mind you.

  • @safye4
    @safye4 Před rokem +132

    6:40 What a great point! You can actually see this happening at a wide range of wealth levels. For instance, at a point, Amex platinum cars were far less popular and were something most people felt that they did not neeed which allowed this card to provide the wealthy with access to comfortable and "private" lounges at airports. Today however, this card is far more popular (probably a combination of marketing/social media and increase in wealth) leading to many complaining that it's typically luxury benefits are no longer capable of being enjoyed because so many people have access now.

    • @johnyeager3997
      @johnyeager3997 Před rokem +5

      and literally everyone in the military has one

    • @chemikalfluffy
      @chemikalfluffy Před rokem +3

      @@johnyeager3997 im gonna be real, as a military member whenever i go in there and i never see anyone else that could even possibly be a military member (aged between 18-40ish, clean shaven or no more than a couple days of stubble, not overweight, proper haircut, etc)

    • @someusername121
      @someusername121 Před rokem +2

      I have that card for lounge access and various other travel credits cause I probably fly about 12 times a year. I maybe break even on the $700 yearly fee which isn't really *that* expensive to begin with.

    • @adeptune6067
      @adeptune6067 Před rokem +2

      My dad's in the Air Force and he gets access to the lounges/clubs for free and they're really nice. Even though there might be a lot of people in there usually it's pretty quiet and you get some excellent free food. Definitely something for the military/upper middle class to enjoy- not the "ultra wealthy"

    • @roberteischen4170
      @roberteischen4170 Před 11 měsíci

      I've gotten an offer for that card several times in the mail. But $700 a year just to have a card is absolutely silly.

  • @harrisonshaw5180
    @harrisonshaw5180 Před rokem +1

    I'm calling it, Zepplins are going to make a comeback for the Super rich, The Yacht of the sky

  • @heathh9887
    @heathh9887 Před rokem +8

    Cheap submarines that crash

  • @afeury
    @afeury Před rokem +68

    God forbid they pay a penny more in taxes though

    • @elasticharmony
      @elasticharmony Před měsícem

      Taxes inhibit competition, the number of mere millionaires is small in this world , taxes make a poverty vs wealth situation,just what put Bezo up there.

  • @nunyabidness3075
    @nunyabidness3075 Před rokem +80

    There are absolutely junior versions of this. I used to hang locally on the fringes of a couple groups that had different price level versions of this. One group was investors and venture capitalists who liked really expensive resorts and restaurants. They lived all over the US, and got together regularly. The other was young professionals who were all local, and took a monthly trip to more normal destinations. To play along, you have to be financially successful, obviously, but you’re also always have to be “on”. It’s like being on a corporate retreat when you are supposed to be relaxing with friends. The people who do this are either characters or just have really good interpersonal skills.

    • @DarthXavius
      @DarthXavius Před 10 měsíci +11

      Usually, they just have sociopathic and narcissistic tendencies. Not always, but usually

  • @Cryptoinvestor-pv4fy
    @Cryptoinvestor-pv4fy Před rokem +7

    I am glad I'm not rich with material things but wealthy with good health, peace of mind and great family and close friends.

    • @alexisduarte8820
      @alexisduarte8820 Před rokem +1

      Thats what a broke person would say to himself to feel better

    • @mjbaricua7403
      @mjbaricua7403 Před rokem +5

      @@alexisduarte8820 this is what a self conscious broke person would say to another content broke person

    • @Cryptoinvestor-pv4fy
      @Cryptoinvestor-pv4fy Před rokem +1

      @@alexisduarte8820 I am so glad that I am broke and happy.😊 ☺

    • @Cryptoinvestor-pv4fy
      @Cryptoinvestor-pv4fy Před rokem +1

      @@mjbaricua7403 Yep, I am broke and happy. 😊 🙂

    • @PickleRicksFATASSCOUSIN
      @PickleRicksFATASSCOUSIN Před rokem

      *"Cryptoinvestor6878"*
      so, you're spending your money on crypto BS?...

  • @truckerinsight1179
    @truckerinsight1179 Před rokem +1

    “The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.” -George Bernard Shaw

  • @foureyes91dn
    @foureyes91dn Před rokem +27

    This makes me feel less guilty about not rinsing out my empty tin of beans to go into a recycling bin.

    • @dalenbickenbach9533
      @dalenbickenbach9533 Před rokem +1

      Not at all a relevant comment. Just a justification for your own failings

  • @MD-gt6xw
    @MD-gt6xw Před rokem +315

    As a former ski racer (Univ of Colorado), I've been lucky enough to ski all over the world and have been fortunate enough to ski with some of the best skiers in the world. But unfortunately, it has also put me into the same circles on occasion with these ultra-wealthy people which often ends up ruining ski trips as they will buy up all helicopter rentals for heli-skiing leaving the rest of us stuck (usually just switch to back country off-piste skiing) or in one case even close part of a mountain just for their own personal use. I've noticed that their kids are often clueless about the real world. Talked to some when I was a teen (racing in HS) and all they talked about is what island or European country they would be visiting the next weekend and who would be there. No concept of work or earning money or anything to do with the real world.

    • @Styxxmixx
      @Styxxmixx Před rokem +4

      That is interesting. Does CU pay for heli skiing for their athletes?
      I live in CO too, go buffs!

    • @MD-gt6xw
      @MD-gt6xw Před rokem +9

      @@Styxxmixx Hehe, I wish. No that was post-graduation when I was back to being just a recreational skier. At CU many of late mornings were just practicing at Eldora (not very glamorous) and hiking up the runs ("no chairlift for you") when my coaches thought I performed less than expected. On top of that I had ROTC early morning PT's several days a week. Was grueling but fun. Luckily it usually meant no classes before Noon.

    • @ollie7620
      @ollie7620 Před rokem +25

      As an incredible ski racer (from the prestigious University of Colorado) I’ve skied all over the world with the best skiers across the globe but once there were some rich people that would pay more than I could for my repeated helicopter trips up a mountain meaning I couldn’t pleasure myself skiing down it again with my extremely talented skiing friends. And their kids weren’t even pro skiers or academically gifted and intellectual like me! One time I even had to ski on a slightly different mountain because they had hired my mountain! Wah wah wah. Do you ever listen to yourself? Sounds even more insufferable than the billionaires who no doubt work harder than you.

    • @ryanpp3696
      @ryanpp3696 Před rokem

      What does HS stand for?

    • @Senovitj
      @Senovitj Před rokem

      @@ollie7620 He never mentioned an interest in repeated heli skiing, just that the rich took up all of them. You are interpreting his post incorrectly.
      Wrong:
      He didn't call himself incredible.
      He didn't brag about his university.
      He was referring to all skiers. interested in heliskiing, not some super talented friends.
      He didn't comment on these kids' skiing abilities nor brag about academic achievements. Knowledge of the world is not a class at some uni, it's learned by being part of it.
      Your post is wah, wah, waaaaaaaaah. You are the obnoxious one.