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A year at sea: The reality of living on a permanent cruise
MadeInDex 📰🌎https://www.cnn.com/travel/villa-vie-odyssey-cruise-ship-sharon-lane-one-year-on
🌎 Humanity is truly living its best ClimateCatch22 dream:
The hotter > The more ACs > The more Electricity consumption > The hotter
⛵ Meanwhile the rich take advantage of the rising water levels, MOVING onto superyachts & forever cruiseships (for one last journey).
⛽ Burning through a cool $1 million of diesel per refueling.
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Climate collapse is happening in front of our eyes, and these bozos have nothing better to do… sigh.
There are also sailing hipies on 5- 10k boats out there trying to live cheap, living their dreams (and trying to avoid orcas)
Depressingly this is probably a way to ensure better treatment than any care home would give you. Have known someone do some cruising in retirement, but the ship was wind powered and made of wood.
Insurance companies must love geriatric forever cruise ships in bad weather.
are you involved in a cruise ship accident? call our lawyers today
You are probably right, plus you get community with similar interests
Yeah, what the fuck does a retired old lady care about climate change
*pretends to care about her grandchildren, actively participates in their eventual climate-change related death.
Easy to take down once the water wars start.
FirstCirclefive-year cabin ownership starts at $59,999. Full ownership prices start at $99,999. There are various other occupancy plans. Owners also pay monthly fees — which in 2025 worked out as $2,000 per person per month for double occupancy, and $3,000 for single occupancy.
And while the prices of a Villa Vie’s cabin aren’t cheap, they remain comparatively accessible in contrast to The World, the only other residential cruise ship experience currently at sea, which caters to a more upscale market with a current starting price of $3.5 million.
“This article is for subscribers only”
I hate paywalls more than almost anything, but I don’t see one here. It’s possible that all my adblocking defenses are silently neutralizing the paywall if it exists.
the people who do this remind of me of multiple scifi stories & tv shows where characters do something like this; especially doctor who.
it’s fitting that most of them are dystopic in tone because it matches our reality.
The Masque of the Red Death seems appropriate given how often sickness runs rampant on the closed society of a cruise ship.
Once people is all in, monthly price will skyrocket… It’s always the same.
As a startup it’s nice, then scales and has to become profitable.
Hopefully in the process will destroy any retirement alternative by price dumping.
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Fuck leaving any money around for your kids. Give it all to the giant corporations
Money wise this seems similar to living in a retirement home.
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Your ancestors must be very proud of you.
And I’m not talking about kids, I’m talking about your focus on lacking responsibility in life. That’s the exact mentality I’m talking about.
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They didn’t ask to be born and live up to the standards of some random people from their past bloodline and their antiquated view of how they should live their life.
What a dumb take. Let people live the lives they want to. Be jealous all you want, but don’t project that onto others because they chose a path you didn’t that doesn’t hurt anyone.
Besides, if you go back in history to before birth control, every single woman in that bloodline would be cheering like mad for their lack of constant pregnancy. Women used to look forward to miscarriages. So also a dumb historical take.
Everyone always has desired a lack of responsibility, like literally always. If some people can achieve that, good for them!