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To say it has changed a lot since I was a kid working in these very same docks would be the understatement of the century.
The Financial District
Some things never change.
The docks were always plagued by theives and villainy. The inhabitants may have changed but the level of thievery has grown exponentially.
Every one of these banks have been caught multiple times money laundering and they just pay the fines which often run into 100's of millions of pounds.
The banks treat these fines simply as the cost of doing business. No one ever goes to jail?
That's enough of that crap we are all well aware of the corruption.
Old Dockside Crane
Cranes like the one above were a great source of fun for us kids. Sometimes the driver would leave the hook dangling low at the end of a shift and we would use it as a swing to fly out over the water. How did we survive childhood? Some of us didn't.
No 1 Canada Square
Many people associate 'canary wharf' with this building. No 1 Canada Square.
Canary wharf was in fact the dock that handled imports from the Canary islands. Mostly bananas. Britain has gone from importing bananas to a banana republic. The conservatives have taken a wrecking ball to the economy.
I could probably write several books about this area but that will have to wait.
As Ade and I were on our walk we came across this massive yacht. It's called the Kismet.
The Kismet
As we stood looking at this massive ship it crossed our minds who would own such an expensive plaything?
We came to the conclusion that whoever owned it, would probably see the cost of this yaught as mere chump change. So I did a bit of digging and lo and behold it's owned by a billionaire. No surprise there you may think but how did he become so rich? Read on.
The Kismet is owned by a very interesting chap. His name is Shahid Khan.
Kismet is a 95.2-metre (312 ft 4 in)-long superyacht which was built by the Lürssen shipyard in 2014. It is managed by the Moran Yacht & Ship chartering business, and is owned by Pakistani-American billionaire Shahid Khan. The word kismet means "destiny" or "fate" in Khan’s native language Urdu and many other languages.
It is allegedly more luxurious than a 5 star hotel yadda, yadda, yadda but what do you do with a ship like this?
You rent it out of course. Think Air bnb just on the water.
So who would be nuts enough to pay $1.2 million per week to enjoy such opulence? Wannabe billionaires of course.
According to Yacht Harbour, Kismet is worth an estimated $200 million.
It has a charter price of $1.2 million per week, excluding food, fuel and dockage costs.
In mid-2018, the yacht was rented by Jay-Z and Beyoncé during a vacation to Italy.
I discovered that it had just sailed into the docks a few days ago and is apparently up for sale? Maybe Mr Khan is feeling the pinch in these tough economic times?
So how did he make his $billions.
He invented a new single piece bumper for pickup trucks! That's it. Simple. 😂😂🤦♂️
The Kismet
The Kismet Yacht at Canary wharf
The Docklands Light Railway (DLR)
Or as we used to call it. The Noddy Train but that's another story.
I hope you enjoyed this little trip down memory lane with Ade and me. It was great to see a fellow hivien in the flesh again. We both missed the Amsterdam hivefest but hey ho on we go.
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I've got nothing against making money but as with everything in life.
There is a right way to do it and a wrong way to do it.
In the last 40 years most western countries have been affected by a particular set of vicious economic theories that just don't work.
Monetarism and trickle down economics paved the way to this dysfunctional nightmare we are living with today.
Billionaires don't spend money they acquire investments and assets that generate more wealth.
Like that Air bnb yaught above.