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  • glimse@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    The person who wrote this clearly isn’t familiar with rich people. Billionaires and multimillionaires do this stuff. McMansions are for the poor millionaires.

    The ultra rich use imported marble for their bathrooms. They fly in the best plaster artist in the country to make a mural in the foyer. The butler’s pantry is lined with $100/sqft wallpaper. The desks are made of rare Italian old growth hardwood.

    Some of it is gaudy, some of it is tasteful. But it’s hard to comprehend just how expensive everything in their houses are. They spend a million or two dollars on AV alone.

    Source: I was a pro AV commissioner/programmer for a long time. Fun fact: AV was deemed “essential work” during lockdown. Another fun fact: rich people stopped tipping entirely during lockdown.

  • SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz
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    16 days ago

    Rich people pay me lots of money to reupholster their ugly, boring-ass beigey-grey furniture to make it look… same ol’ boring beigey-grey. Then they display it In their giant beige house.

    Makes me want to fucking scream. Rich boomers have absolutely no fucking taste.

  • andros_rex@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    My billionaire ex’s family loved truffle oil on shit at restaurants. Rich does not equal taste at all.

  • Null User Object@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    “Maybe rich people should build weird fountains, again.”

    https://youtu.be/cz231Zi8Z7g

    “The Wasserspiele of Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe are 300 years old, powered entirely by gravity, and entertaining tourists. As legacies for rich people go, there are far worse ones.”

    • wuzzlewoggle@feddit.org
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      17 days ago

      Been saying this for years. Todays rich people are fucking bad at being rich. It’s truly a skill issue.

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        16 days ago

        If billionaires were building libraries and colleges and such, they wouldn’t be so bad. Still bad, but at least we’d be getting something.

        Today’s ultra rich are more into bunkers and are just soulless, selfish, and frankly kind of stupid.

  • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
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    17 days ago

    Fun fact, the grand prize for the largest privately owned house in the US [still] goes to George Washington Vanderbilt II, who commissioned construction of the Biltmore Estate in 1889.

    At 178,926 sqft. (16,622.8 m2), it is only slightly smaller than the average Walmart Supercenter.

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      17 days ago

      So what you’re saying is that I’m doing better than he is because I’m living in the back of a Walmart.

  • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    I’m equally pissed off that we get billionaire tech mogul taking over the government but he doesn’t even have a volcano island populated with goons or a giant skull base.

  • Shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works
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    17 days ago

    This would be the issue if I were rich, I’d want to spend so much money supporting people that I’d probably no longer be rich.