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Yachthood

(n.)

The exclusive fellowship of the ultra-wealthy, whose only membership requirement is a fortune so large you never have to ask how much.

Davos panels debate inequality every January, then the yachthood adjourns to Monaco to recover from the conversation.

Does it ring true?

From the future, or already here?

Coinage notes

Yacht + -hood, as in brotherhood, priesthood and knighthood. But while these are orders you enter by birth, vocation or merit, entry to the yachthood can be bought.

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