Anyway, I only post about it because of this photo in the article, of a 1920's ship (the Saturnia) which was, obviously, ridiculously ornate (at least in First Class):
You can read more about the ship on this website, and I see that it was Italian designed (that explains a lot), and yeah, completely over the top in other rooms too:
It's like they were trying to make the interior refuse to acknowledge it was inside of a ship. Makes me laugh, really.
Fantastic. Now we need to do similar stuff, although a bit more humble, with dirigibles. Anything that doesn't fight gravity is a worthy avenue for rich slobs to put their pioneering wealth. Its the rich slobs land hunger when they don't have to pay a land tax ..... Thats a threat to us. Without the land tax and with unrestrained usury their money makes money while they sleep. Thats no good and there ought to be no billionaires under such a hateful system.
ReplyDeleteWe need to bring back the private luxury train cabin as well. We need to invest a huge amount in more rail, levelling rail, improving rail. Travel ought to be fun. If the methods of travel are not fighting gravity then you can take your time, get some work done, read that backlog of books you haven't been getting around to reading, and sure enough your there where you want to be and fresh. Fresh, stretched out, showered, not stressed.
I’m glad you haven’t censured these Bird comments yet as I agree with them.
ReplyDeleteMostly agree, that is!
ReplyDeleteWe want these rich guys to be the catalyst for all forms of transport that don't fight gravity for another reason. Manufacturing improvement requires the "lengthening of the structure of production." Manufacturing excellence is more about logistics than it is about robotics. So to have these forms of transport fantastically well developed, when transmuted to cargo transport and work-in-progress transport, can make us fabulously wealthy.
ReplyDeleteThere is one Indian billionaire who has his own skyscraper. Or at least very tall building. He's got a floor just for all the cars. Many floors for staff. I think we should cheer when we hear of this sort of thing. But when we hear that Ted Turner owns a 920 square mile ranch, and that is only one of his 15 ranches we ought to want to puke. Plus Ted is a media baron and only made his money because the cartel gave him cheap credit. Same with all media moguls. They are fundamentally parasites.
ReplyDeleteI know I'm over-labouring this point, but manufacturing is really logistics in disguise. And we have maybe 70 years of energy stress ahead of us if we survive leftist wickedness and irrationality. 1000 years if we don't. So whenever we see rich people patronising transport that doesn't fight gravity we ought to be very pleased.
In a thorium world Lear Jets wouldn't be such a bad thing. But now we ought care for them not so much. We really want the rich investing in outrageously luxurious transport systems that don't fight gravity. We cannot get enough of that sort of investment. No amount is ever going to be too much.