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Entry: The Ugliest Yacht in the World Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_ugliest_yacht_in_the_world#33105 Post contents: Some time ago Taki Theodoracopoulos also wrote an article about some tasteless nouveau riche in London, who have large houses without a single book in them and so forth. Looking at that boat and hearing about rich who do not read I can not resist lamenting for former times. The Medicis financed much of the Florentine Renessaince, the Eszterhazy's financed classical music and much else in the Carpathian basin (Haydn was the court musician of Prince Eszterhazy). Today's "aristocracy", from boats like that, lends helping hands to Amy Winehouse, and co. The Taki article also discusses a certain Mittal who made a fortune from owning a mine in Kazakhstan, where miners die almost daily due to the management disregarding all safety precautions, but of course profit rates have been on the rise. This phenomenon is the explanation of Melnichenko's, and many others' in Eastern Europe, wealth. http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/moolah_and_its_discontents/ Sent at: 2008 12 02