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[–] [email protected] 124 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I can tell you exactly how much every single one of those things is worth once their mansions are burned to the ground.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

The stone might be salvageable

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Doesn't matter. Most of their money is in the market anyway. The rest is just the cream.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Whenever I play minecraft I always play survival mode. Creative mode just doesn’t interest me.

Being super rich and filling one’s house with expensive shit sounds like creative mode.

It just sounds so boring.

“Your objective: spend at least $3M on this room”

“Ooh I bet I can find some coasters that cost me $50k! ooh goody”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

All of the examples I gave were real things I saw and the only one I really liked was the plaster artist. I'd definitely pay someone for something like that if I won the lottery.

Another expensive thing I saw that I really liked was the hallway overlooking a client's full-sized basement basketball court that had 5 or so kinetic sculptures on the wall. That dude had great taste in art and definitely picked out everything himself

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Many years ago I was doing carpentry in a mansion on Kiawah Island, and the owner had brought back these huge clam shells from Greece that he turned into bathroom sinks.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago (4 children)

"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."

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

That’s capitalism for you.

I think those gilded age people were still basing their beliefs on a very old idea of what wealth is supposed to be. The elite of Ancient Greece and Rome who would often fund public works projects. The gilded age industrialists really wanted to show the rest of the world how powerful they were. America wasn’t the same global power it was today and they were proving to the “old world” that they could rival them in beauty and wealth.

Modern billionaires have started to realize that if they controlled the government more than their predecessors, they could make more money. Their version of public works, museums, and gardens is a restructure of their role in society so they can become kings.

https://www.dailygrail.com/2024/10/the-technocratic-conspiracy-how-tech-tycoons-plan-to-disrupt-democracy-and-become-the-new-rulers-of-the-world/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Farting sounds=worth it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Forget fountains and statues; I wish we'd go back to rich people one-upping each other by creating public parks and forests named after themselves.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The tumblr user thinks the rich people live in McMansions

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

The user is Finnish, so they might not know that much about the US rich people

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago
  • that we're aware of...

plus - Epstein's isle.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

That's what the rich used to do.

Look at stuff like Chippendale furniture, or those pineapple newel posts. Once upon a time those were hand carved. Not only would they be made from exotic wood, but you had to pay a craftsman to waste his entire life doing that shit.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I was always a fan of that crimson faux leather and velvet they put in cars in the 80's. When I strike it rich you can upholster me awful red furniture. It gonna be gaudy AF.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

It was the contrast. "Oh look, a boring old 80's sedan in white". *Opens the door, gets slapped in the face with redness *. I love that shit and it needs to come back

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Gaudy is fun af! I'd absolutely do it!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

I still have parts of my business doing luxury real estate photo and videography. They ALL have the same shit. They all have the same heavy black anodised metal door leading into the living room, the qooker tap, the green egg BBQ (that they probably never use) and the Sonos/B&O sound system. They all have the same "art" or close enough, same cars, etc etc. They're definitely going through a checklist of "this thing is expensive and popular among my peers, I shall have it at any cost!".

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 m^2^), it is only slightly smaller than the average Walmart Supercenter.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

This is what differentiates old money from nouveau-riche. They’re both evil, but the first have a sense of dignity about it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

lol, I can almost guarantee they were watching this video lmao https://youtu.be/n5x7GLl-mMo

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I've never had truffle oil before. Maybe it is really good

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Nope it's reminiscent of burning rubber and it's a flavor that drowns almost everything else out. A consommer tv program in my country found out that they don't even use real truffels in the making.

But it sounds expensive and is instantly recognizable by anyone. Just like the aesthetics of the rich, another poster was referring to. Loud, bland and very recognizable as 'expensive'.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Here's a rule of thumb for you, if you put truffle oil on stuff - it's already too much truffle oil.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

The vast majority is fake, and basically just a chemical.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

They still do shit like this. They make the crafts people sign NDAs so they can't talk about their work.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

If I was rich I'd I'd try my hardest so nobody goes hungry ever

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Id uninstall people from outside.server for an elite class that actually spent opulently on the artisan class.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Keuhkopussirotta is a great username

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Yours isn’t bad either 🇫🇮💪🏼

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