As far as I can tell the Icon of the Seas is basically fine; even on the environmental front (important!) I see no reason to believe it's worse per passenger than other ships.

A lot of opposition to it feels like elite snobbery against middle / upper-middle-class people.

Any good anti-Icon arguments I'm missing?

We should strive for more! Let’s build cities on the sea. Let’s build cities in the sky. Let’s build cities in the space. Let’s build cities in other planets!

Cities on the sea populated by all the remaining intellectuals on the planet is the plot of the Braintrust series, by Marc Stiegler: Product manager of Xanadu browser, author of Earthsea (the first fiction novel to depict a prediction market based society).

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Cities on the sea populated by all the remaining intellectuals on the planet is the plot of the Braintrust series, by Marc Stiegler: Product manager of Xanadu browser, author of Earthsea (the first fiction novel to depict a prediction market based society). https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/401794.Marc_Stiegler

He's also author of some of my favorite secure-UI papers from his time at HP Labs with Alan Karp and Tyler Close, like https://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2009/HPL-2009-169.pdf

co founder of @metamask . Making computers behave for us.