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[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 23 points 15 hours ago

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.

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 16 points 15 hours ago

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!".

[-] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 20 points 22 hours ago

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.

[-] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago

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.

[-] 0ops@lemm.ee 5 points 7 hours ago

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

[-] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 4 points 13 hours ago

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

[-] MagnyusG@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago

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

[-] humandotexe@sopuli.xyz 3 points 15 hours ago

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

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago

My billionaire ex’s family loved truffle oil on shit at restaurants. Rich does not equal taste at all.

[-] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 76 points 1 day ago

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:

[-] crusa187@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 day ago

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

[-] notabot@lemm.ee 30 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 hours ago

Or nowadays excessively long nails that don't let you do anything

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

Like how pale skin used to be a mark of rich people because poor people had to toil in the sun all day. Of course, once the poor people moved into offices and other indoor jobs, it became attractive to have a tan showing you can afford to lie on the sun all day instead of working.

[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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?"

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

That would certainly make sense, considering how the front of these towards the bottom is shaped like a wedge.

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 2 points 20 hours ago

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

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

Sure, people are good at the silly "i'm better than you".

[-] 000999@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

They made a comeback recently. Platform shoes are everywhere

[-] nulluser@lemmy.world 49 points 1 day ago

"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."

[-] daw@feddit.org 1 points 8 hours ago

Kassel is insanely underrated

[-] wuzzlewoggle@feddit.org 26 points 1 day ago

Been saying this for years. Todays rich people are fucking bad at being rich. It's truly a skill issue.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 8 points 19 hours ago

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.

[-] alcibiades@lemm.ee 2 points 7 hours ago

That’s capitalism for you.

I think those gilded age people were still basing their beliefs on a very old idea of what wealth is supposed to be. The elite of Ancient Greece and Rome who would often fund public works projects. The gilded age industrialists really wanted to show the rest of the world how powerful they were. America wasn’t the same global power it was today and they were proving to the “old world” that they could rival them in beauty and wealth.

Modern billionaires have started to realize that if they controlled the government more than their predecessors, they could make more money. Their version of public works, museums, and gardens is a restructure of their role in society so they can become kings.

https://www.dailygrail.com/2024/10/the-technocratic-conspiracy-how-tech-tycoons-plan-to-disrupt-democracy-and-become-the-new-rulers-of-the-world/

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

Farting sounds=worth it.

[-] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 day ago
  • that we're aware of...

plus - Epstein's isle.

[-] El_Azulito@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

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

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 m^2^), it is only slightly smaller than the average Walmart Supercenter.

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

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

[-] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] termaxima@jlai.lu 13 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Lexam@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

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

[-] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

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

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