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As a sailor, it bugs me when I hear this sentiment. Orcas can't do anything to mega-yachts. The billiionaires are completely unaffected. The boats that they attack and damage are the sailboats in the 35 to 50-foot range, that is, the kind of boats that I might be able to buy, if I were motivated enough. (Like, $200,000, rather than $250,000,000.)
If you have 200k to spend on a boat that isn't your livelihood, that's nice, but I need you to stand up against this wall for a moment
How about you save your bullets for the actual, child eating billionaires instead of some guy who is just kinda well off, huh?
As my dad who grew up sailing says, "a boat is a hole in the water that you throw money into."
There's nothing you can do to them that's worse than they're already doing to themselves by owning a boat.
Besides, they're talking about the kind of boat that you'd see in every harbor all over the world, not some monument to greed:
It's no 15 foot Boston Whaler, but there's hundreds of boats that size in every harbor and marina you can think of.