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.

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!".

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.

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

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

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

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:

"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."

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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