{"id":259445,"date":"2025-07-09T11:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T10:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&p=259445"},"modified":"2025-07-08T17:56:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T16:56:59","slug":"sea-monsters","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/sea-monsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re feeling fearful right now, possibly because Labour wants to cut your welfare to pay for fighter planes, you won’t be consoled to learn that superyachts are getting bigger<\/a>. One yacht owner helpfully explains why, for example, these floating 5-star hotels need huge kitchens to provide gourmet fare: “If you are used to eating well, not everywhere [in the world] are there restaurants good enough.”<\/p>\n

How tiresome for the poor lambs. Globally, 733 million are not used to eating much at all<\/a>, and 9 million a year starve to death. Yet when you point to capitalism’s monstrous inequality, caused entirely by the rich exploiting the poor, the rich are the first to accuse you of the politics of envy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-259445","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/259445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}