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My point was about the environmental hypocrisy of rich liberals, not wealth.

I know the experience of replacing normal pipes with larger water pipes to supply a new massive $4,000 dollar showerhead and then getting the customer to talk about how environmental they are in their political voting.

I thought the photo of Jordan’s house might help people who don’t know that kind of house, understand how much electricity, water, gas, and constant staff and service people they take to operate, some of them use elevators, real elevators, to go to the second floor, the meters for utilities are commercial meters, multiple commercial water heaters, and that constant flow of contractors and service people during the work day hours, there are always things that need doing at those places.

... and then getting the customer to talk about how environmental they are in their political voting.

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I get your point for sure. But I don’t recall MJ ever putting himself on that “holier than thou” pedestal of I’m Mr. Green. MJ made a point of staying out of right / left political bulljive because in his words “republicans buy gym shows too”.

Yes, I do not disagree with you at all. I work in the maritime field - yachts - and see hypocrisy and brash, wholesale extermination of all things green by self-proclaimed environmentalists all the time. Not one can fix the engines they demand at full-throttle, or would deign to scar their hands with the chemicals we use to keep their possessions squeaky-clean. Leftists thrive on the deepest lies and most murderous and misery-inducing hypocrisies.

For much of my adult life, I owned a home far bigger than I needed. Those larger homes really are a money drain. Something always needs fixing and with larger homes, everything is more expensive from the roofing to the plumbing to the landscaping.

Landscaping. It was not possible for me to do my own yard maintenance unless I wanted to spend every weekend out there working at it full time. In fact, I had a koi pond with a waterfall in the front of my last home that cost nearly $2,000 a year to maintain. I had two big oil tanks that cost me hundreds of dollars every couple of months to keep filled so I could heat that massive place. I had the massive roof done at a cost of $35,000.

You also accumulate a lot of stuff when you have a big house. Most of which you don't need and will never use again. Like that top-of-the-line treadmill that I used a few times until my wife started using it to hang wet laundry from.

A few years ago we moved into a condo that was 1/3 the size of that house in square footage. Our utilities cost next to nothing. We are nice and snug in this condo, no clutter, everything we have here we use. We filled dumpsters full of junk before we came here.

People may envy others with big houses but I am not one of them and I'm glad to be rid of mine and living a simpler, less cluttered lifestyle.