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29148767 No.29148767 [Reply] [Original]

Why don't rich people live in places like this anymore?

>> No.29148946

>>29148767
they do?

>> No.29148974

>>29148767
Because the distribution of wealth isn't as unequal nowadays.

For one person to live like that you needed ten thousand serfs (slaves) to support them

Don't worry though, we are rapidly returning to that world again

>> No.29149045

>>29148767
To have a manor estate you need hundreds of millions of dollars, annual upkeep itself can be tens of millions. There are plenty of old money families with properties like this still.

>> No.29149054

>>29148974
Ugh, finally

>> No.29149176

>>29148767
Anon have you see how Jeff Bezos lives? He has a 700mil Super Yacht, he probably has 3 properties like this.

>> No.29149217

>>29148767
>buy condo in high rise for $20 million
>bullet proof glass after poor people started shooting at high rises in chicago years ago
>walk out my door and go to the gym on my floor
>gym staff greet me, hand me a towerl, follow me around licking up my sweat as I get up off each equipment
>they had me a juice on my way out
>I notice concierge staff putting my doordash sushi near my door, I thank them but tell them to get away from me, theres a pandemic after all. this way i dont have to tip them.
>after finishing my sushi I go downstairs
>the staff in the lobby are on guard incase any protests pop up soon
>i check /biz/ and notice someone asking why I dont live in a castle
Only super rich live in castles, the kind of rich to have a half a dozen ones unoccupied except for the daily staff. Much easier for new rich to just have wagie gig slaves for their staff rather than employ them at a livable wage.

>> No.29149250

>>29148767
the rich don’t
but the (((rich))) do
stop looking in forbes top 100
new blood isn’t really rich

>> No.29149295

>>29149250
/thread.

>> No.29149296
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29149296

>>29149054
It's already happening in some parts of the world.

One family's home is an entire skyscraper. Meanwhile everyone else live like rats

>> No.29149327
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29149327

>>29149176
>bezos
He has trash taste. This is his DC home

>> No.29149384

>>29148767
Because they still do

>> No.29149388

>>29148767
this is just excessive. who the fuck are you trying to impress?

>> No.29149428

>>29149327
>lives in a literal museum

Pretty based.

>> No.29149488

>>29149327
this looks like a college campus wtf

>> No.29149489

>>29149388
everyone

>> No.29149496

>>29149296
That doesn't look very safe. It looks like it wouldn't survive a hurricane

>> No.29149498

>>29149388
His cousin who has an estate twice as large as this

This is the fundamental problem with humans, everyone compares themselves to people above them but never think to look down

>> No.29149509

Because they aren't modern. Getting electricity and fast internet to a place like that is probably a nightmare, not to mention a fortune. Plus you don't have the wealth of shit to do that you do in a city like London or New York. Just get a medium-large cottage/farmhouse as a rural retreat if you want something like this

>> No.29149820

>>29149489
this kind of estate isn't accessible to the public. you would need armed guards patrolling this shit so plebs don't get anywhere near it. that's for safety

>> No.29149908

>>29148767
They do, you just aren't aware of them because why would they cross paths with the lower castes?

>only leave their estates to visit their equally loaded friends estate
>You will never even deliver food to them because it's so distasteful for them to stoop to ordering out
>They may have a literal gate guard to prevent you and even the mailman from accessing their quarter mile driveway
>Their insufferable children are the only ones to come and go

Such is life on long island

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29150157

>>29148974
>commieboo marx-fanboy memespeak
You will all be in a pit one day.

>> No.29151193

>>29149496
which skyscraper looks safe tho? Looks pretty exoebsuce , I cant even imagine luxury like that. Hope I will make it.

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29151290

>>29149327
that probably costs $100mm in DC