Look at the house and try to imagine the electricity, water, and gas it takes to keep that place pristine and perfect 365 days a year whether anyone is living there or not.
Imagine all the contractors and service people and maids gardeners and such that care for the place and all the gasoline they use.
Estates like that consume resources at the rate of small factories or moderate apartment complexes, yet so many of our top environmental activists own multiples of those, and when they are not in a house they stay at hotels and resorts that consume resources at a huge rate per occupant, same
with the restaurants they use, the jet travel, vacations, everything they do consumes environmental resources far beyond anything we do.
Mansions are the hugest suck on assets. For how much house most people use. The millionaires who keep their wealth monetize their houses, whether it be renting it back to themselves through theor business or actually running businesses through them.
I struggle for money at this point in my life and am often tempted to resent the massive imbalances of wealth in this country.
Also, it seems silly to me how some folks can be so massively wealthy whereas I for instance can’t afford the schools my kids can easily get in to, or we can’t eat “steaks”for a special occassion that aren’t on the 50% off rack and need to be soaked in lemon juice, or stress about the price of gas I’m told by my élite masters I’m a fat capitalist to use.
I regret having no retirement. I regret, now, never having been part of a union... But I didn’t believe in it at the time.
I think sports stars are insanely paid.
But, when I was younger and doing better I didn’t resent them. I counted myself as believing in the dream.
Some people realize the big dream, some people don’t.
I can’t change m principles just because I didn’t succeed in the ways I would have preferred.
Property taxes alone would bankrupt most people.
Well said, agree. There’s video on YouTube that walks you through the property in great detail. It’s stupid big. More likely a lifestyle I wouldn’t need or understand- multiple kitchens, living rooms, etc.
For this Easter weekend I’m in Broken Bow, OK at a ‘cabin’ we rented. It’s several orders of magnitude smaller than Mr. Jordan’s sprawling Chicago estate.... but I’d rather live here.