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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.

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.
- 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”
  
  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
- I can tell you exactly how much every single one of those things is worth once their mansions are burned to the ground.
  
  The stone might be salvageable
  
  Doesn't matter. Most of their money is in the market anyway. The rest is just the cream.
  
  Don't burn it. Museums that exist for the masses to be able to access
- 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.
- Kinda. There are tiers to what boring rich people do.
- I suspect the tipping point here is when you can get around to employing someone to have good taste and imagination, and take a real interest in artisanship on your behalf.

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!".

I saw an exhibit at a museum about wealth throughout history. Italian "chopines" were popular during the renaissance to show power and wealth. The higher the shoe, the more elite you were. Look at this goofy shit:
- I think there was a small bit of practicality to these, even if they were primarily wealth and status symbols. Most of the streets were covered in excrement at the time, as there wasn’t any sewage or plumbing. If you could afford a pair of these “chopines,” you could keep up out of the muck while walking about. I guess just don’t get them too tall, or ya might trip and tip lol
  
  You can see the discoloration around the base of sone if them, which shows the utility of the idea, but I suspect the extreme height was deliberately to make them impractical to show you don't need to work, in the same way long trains on dresses show you don't do anything much and can afford someone to follow you around holding it up, or lawns showed you didn't need your land to produce food.
  
  If you could afford a pair of these “chopines,” you could keep up out of the muck while walking about.
  Reminds me of Monty Python.
  "I could tell he's a king!" "Really, how?" "Well, he ain't all covered in shit now is he?"
  
  That would certainly make sense, considering how the front of these towards the bottom is shaped like a wedge.
- I can see someone walking on the short ones top left, and I might add the design is not bad aesthetically. But the other two? Is it possible to walk with that? I think stilts would be more practical to be honest
- Sure, people are good at the silly "i'm better than you".
- They made a comeback recently. Platform shoes are everywhere

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

"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."
- 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.
- Been saying this for years. Todays rich people are fucking bad at being rich. It's truly a skill issue.
  
  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.
- Kassel is insanely underrated
- Farting sounds=worth it.

The tumblr user thinks the rich people live in McMansions
- The user is Finnish, so they might not know that much about the US rich people

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

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.
- that we're aware of...
  plus - Epstein's isle.

My billionaire ex’s family loved truffle oil on shit at restaurants. Rich does not equal taste at all.
- I've never had truffle oil before. Maybe it is really good
  
  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'.
  
  The vast majority is fake, and basically just a chemical.
  
  Here's a rule of thumb for you, if you put truffle oil on stuff - it's already too much truffle oil.

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.

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

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

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

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

This is where both traveling outside your own village and generational wealth come into play.

Keuhkopussirotta is a great username
- Yours isn’t bad either 🇫🇮💪🏼

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

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