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The easiest way to gauge how bad a country's decline has progressed is to observe what the wealthiest spend on recreation (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 months ago by GlueBear@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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That ambani wedding between the billionaires in India is approximately 320M$.

I don't think any oligarch from any country has ever managed to pull off a party of that expense.

India really is just what you would get if there was no CPC for China

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[-] heartheartbreak@hexbear.net 43 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Always has been astronaut-1

All those slave societies building these big ass useless monuments

[-] GlueBear@hexbear.net 40 points 3 months ago

I think this is one of the most expensive weddings in history. The whole thing is abysmal

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 34 points 3 months ago

This is why we need Elon to marry his child bride on Mars, to show these other billionaires how it's done soviet-huff

[-] SummerIsTooWarm@hexbear.net 35 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's the kind of wedding where a drone strike wouldn't be wrong

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 28 points 3 months ago

So obviously these people should all be beheaded to hold such an event while there are children starving in the streets, but if you can compartmentalize that for a sec and look at the thing in a vacuum...

Damn, that's a sick party

[-] Facky@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago

They do need to meet the guillotine, but everyone looked great tbh.

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago

Putting aside all the pedo shit, Epstein Island does seem like a nice place to spend a weekend

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago

Lol

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 25 points 3 months ago

I really do hope the Indian people have a period of red terror. I can’t decide which one is more debauched. oligarchs living in skyscrapers secretly and having depraved orgies away from the public eye, or failsons and faildaughters having half a billion dollar wedding and publicly broadcasting it to the poor masses

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago

Unfortunately at this point a brutal sectarian civil war looks more likely than a proletarian revolution.

[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago

Much better than buying a super yacht or some dumb massive mansion tbh

[-] radiofreeval@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago

At least a super yacht has 40 people or so employed for the vehicle's lifetime

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago

They rented out an entire cruise ship for a week for the pre-wedding party so any carbon emissions savings are probably out the door.

[-] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago

Have you seen that one wedding in Egypt that literally rented the pyramids?

[-] HexbearGPT@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

[-] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

I clicked on it expecting a video wtf

[-] the_itsb@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

was about to until I saw your comment 🤦

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 months ago

For comparison, coronation of Jean Bedel Bokassa, often cited as the most senslessly lavish party in recent history costed 20 million$ (in 1977 dollars, today it would be around 100 million)