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Lion
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Does this upset you?
#8050894 - 02/21/08 08:46 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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India's richest man is building the world's most expensive house, valued at $1 billion.
A ONE BILLION DOLLAR house... In a nation with some of the starkest poverty in the world.
For comparison, the mansions in Bel Air and Beverly Hills, CA are about $3 million at the low end and $40 million at the high end.
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Re: Does this upset you? [Re: Lion]
#8050898 - 02/21/08 08:47 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I wonder when/if India will ever have a Revolution
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Re: Does this upset you? [Re: Lion]
#8050899 - 02/21/08 08:47 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Do I take issue with it? Have problems with it? Find it ludicrous? Sure. But I'm not quite sure it -upsets- me.
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BrAiN
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Yea man.. if it's your money.. do as you will... It would upset me if he was using TAX money or something but hell.. if it's YOUR money, you can do whtever the fuck you want.
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Re: Does this upset you? [Re: Lion]
#8050903 - 02/21/08 08:49 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Lion said: India's richest man is
I'm going to guess he runs half the shitty call centers in the world
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Re: Does this upset you? [Re: Lion]
#8050908 - 02/21/08 08:50 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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perhaps a buddha will be born in that house.
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Lion
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OneMoreRobot3021 said: Do I take issue with it? Have problems with it? Find it ludicrous? Sure. But I'm not quite sure it -upsets- me.
That's understandable. There are worse things happening in the world, and people with much more malicious agendas. Still, it's such a sign of gross excess...unless he's planning on housing a couple thousand peasants in that palace.
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Re: Does this upset you? [Re: Lion]
#8050937 - 02/21/08 08:58 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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For that price, maybe everyone in India will be able to live there.
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Lion
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AlteredAgain said: perhaps a buddha will be born in that house.
Perhaps 10 Buddhas would be born if he only spent $100 million on his house and invested the other $900 million in shelter and sustainable living for a few of the millions of homeless in the country!
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Re: Does this upset you? [Re: Lion]
#8050977 - 02/21/08 09:07 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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touche.
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the contrast between the rich and the poor in India is MiNdBoGgLinG!!
You're right, he should downsize and give most of the money for homeless shelters. Really though, the most important thing India could do now would be to start building their infrastructure. If only they had roads and running water, they'd have a foot in the International commerce door.
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Re: Does this upset you? [Re: Jeebies]
#8051202 - 02/21/08 10:01 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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This is why I think we should be able to put a cap on accumulation of wealth, say 1 billion dollars, or a certain percentage of total world income somewhere in that ballpark.
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Re: Does this upset you? [Re: Lion]
#8051212 - 02/21/08 10:03 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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If I had 22 billion dollars. Id still live in a complete shithole.
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Re: Does this upset you? [Re: Lion]
#8051369 - 02/21/08 10:39 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Lion said: Still, it's such a sign of gross excess...unless he's planning on housing a couple thousand peasants in that palace.
The lower couple of floors are going to be servant quarters, kitchens, etc. All in all several hundred, if not over a thousand employees if I remember correctly. Isn't his house going to be like 50 stories tall?
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TheCow said: If I had 22 billion dollars. Id still live in a complete shithole.
I wouldn't live in a shithole... but a nice home out in the middle of nowhere? Count me in.
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Re: Does this upset you? [Re: Ferris]
#8051403 - 02/21/08 11:00 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Ferris said: This is why I think we should be able to put a cap on accumulation of wealth, say 1 billion dollars, or a certain percentage of total world income somewhere in that ballpark.

You can't force charity.
Don't you believe we have a right to spend the money we earn on whatever we want?
I don't make a hell of a lot, but I make many times more than I need to keep myself alive. My car, my computer, my books, my music... these are all luxuries, in a world where some are starving. I give a small amount to charity, but I could give much more if only I didn't indulge in these extras.
But it's my money and I believe I have a right to it.
Whenever I hear someone propose a 'cap' on how much excess wealth one should be allowed to accumulate, it's always a figure well above their own income, implying that hoarding resources is something that only very rich people do.
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Re: Does this upset you? [Re: Lion]
#8051412 - 02/21/08 11:04 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Here is the house:
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I think it's totally ridiculous, but in his own right to spend his money on whatever lavish thing he wants.
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Re: Does this upset you? [Re: Kada]
#8051422 - 02/21/08 11:11 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Hey, Gods and Clods, am i right?
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Re: Does this upset you? [Re: BrAiN]
#8051454 - 02/21/08 11:22 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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BrAiN said: Yea man.. if it's your money.. do as you will... It would upset me if he was using TAX money or something but hell.. if it's YOUR money, you can do whtever the fuck you want.
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Re: Does this upset you? [Re: bradmassive]
#8051477 - 02/21/08 11:31 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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For the record, I don't have any strong opinions about putting a cap on income...I definitely think it would be reasonable to ensure through legislation that no one human beings has more wealth than an entire nation, but I don't know enough about economics to argue in favor of something like that.
It's more that I'm just disgusted with the ways many wealthy people spend their money. Just a personal thing.
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