Ha! Even this rich prick is embarrassed by his riches. I laugh, and yet I cry. His embarrassment doesn't translate into relief for the masses. In other words, he's your typical rich prick.

http://www.freivokh.com/ - designer's website... some awesome stuff

Would you call him a prick if he let you party on-board for a week with a harem of Tantric Priestesses??? If he brought back the original corps of Ziegfeld's follies from the 20's and had a Sashimi buffet 24/7 on their taut tummies????.....What if he liked to take tribesfolk of 40 or less each year by spin of a a roullette wheel, and send all their kids to finnishing school, taught them 8 languages, and fixed their teefesses????....

ahhhh what one could do with a few-hunnert, cool mills...(.er....Euros, Platinum, and white slavery gig.....).

yes, i would still call him a prick.

Why would you grant an interview to someone who so obviously hates you?

"There's the homeless, charity, and there's lots of things you could do with that money..."
but you didn't did you?

So? Why should he give it to charity? Thats assuming he doesn't have a philanthropic side.

I find him absolutely hilarious. "Pretty selfish, but I'm just not going to put a number on it." At least he's honest.

The interviewer was so friggin' uppity it made me sick. All I could hear from her was how much she wished she had even a fraction of his wealth.

I didn't find his ethics any different than that of an average human being. He probably gives to charity a similar fraction of his assets as most people. Everyone here could probably save poor little Ubutu's life back in Africa by say giving up Starbucks and donating the money. What does that mean? Should we all give up designer coffee? Can I have coffee if I send Ubutu some money? But then couldn't I always send more money by not having coffee? It's like the last scene from Schindler's list - you can always save another life by doing a little more. Most people in the west have to live with this paradox - that we choose to pursue pleasures that are decadent in comparison to the life lead by masses around the world. I don't know how else to deal with this paradox than to accept that I'm a prick and come to peace with what little I do to help my fellow human being; maybe even try to do a little more today than I did yesterday but like most 'noble' goals I fail at that on most days.

So in summary - for better or for worse, this guy is no different than most of us. No different in his ethics I mean - he is obviously much smarter and more gifted than most of us

There's nothing he could say that would allay people's resentment and he knows that. He was a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley and we all know what happened there, because we're playing with the result right now. I'm sure there were a few jobs created along the way, to boot.

Some would see something grotesque, I see something truly beautiful, something that advanced the ancient human art of marine architecture. Could have spent it better, could have spent it worse.

I wonder if she's been down the 'roaring forties' in the great Southern Ocean. Those latitudes have a hunger for fancy new things and often don't return them.

While we're throwing money away, I'll *promote the already sifted vid instead of finding some poor pq'd submission that actually deserves it.

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Friday, October 3rd, 2008 3:57am PDT - promote requested by schmawy.

17.9 million people have diabetes in the US alone. He contributed to the development of synthetic insulin, which has helped alleviate the suffering of millions of people. How many people have alleviated the suffering of even a dozen people, much less a million?

This guy gets a yacht and 17.9 million people get to live better lives, not really a terrible deal.

Why should he give a dime to charity? He has spent the majority of his life improving the lives of other people.

As far as people who buy $180 million dollar yachts:

"If I had been a Heathen,
I'd have praised the purple vine,
My slaves would dig the vineyards,
And I would drink the wine;
But Higgins is a Heathen,
And his slaves grow lean and grey,
That he may drink some tepid milk
Exactly twice a day."

"The point becomes clear only as one realizes, with compassion and sorrow, that many of our most powerful and wealthy men are miserable dupes and captives in a treadmill, who—with the rarest exceptions—have not the ghost of a notion how to spend and enjoy money."

-Alan Watts

yeah but i want one