(Audio) The Haves and Have-Yachts, by Osnos

Saturday June 21, 2025

It's kind of an interesting book, collecting articles from The New Yorker. "New gilded age" and so on. There's a whole chapter on Zuckerberg, who sort of anchors the less-fraudulent side of the spectrum. Wild and wacky stuff.

The Haves and Have-Yachts

• The rewards: How to spend it
  • The floating world
    • Yachts are the most expensive thing you can own.
  • Survival of the richest
    • Bunkers and stuff. See also Rushkoff
  • One for the money
    • "Survival of the Richest, by Rushkoff"
• The mechanics: How to keep it
  • Ghost in the machine
    • "Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy?"
  • The Greenwich rebellion
    • "How Greenwich Republicans Learned to Love Trump"
  • Ruling-class rules
    • "How to thrive in the power élite—while declaring it your enemy." (Tucker Carlson etc.)
  • Trust issues
    • Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts (GRATs) etc.
• The perils: How to lose it
  • Land of make-believe
    • "The Biggest Ponzi Scheme in Hollywood History" (Zach Horwitz)
  • Patriot games
    • "How a Tycoon Linked to Chinese Intelligence Became a Darling of Trump Republicans" (Guo Wengui)
  • The big house
    • "Life after white collar crime" (Jeff Grant)