The person who wrote this clearly isn't familiar with rich people. Billionaires and multimillionaires do this stuff. McMansions are for the poor millionaires.

The ultra rich use imported marble for their bathrooms. They fly in the best plaster artist in the country to make a mural in the foyer. The butler's pantry is lined with $100/sqft wallpaper. The desks are made of rare Italian old growth hardwood.

Some of it is gaudy, some of it is tasteful. But it's hard to comprehend just how expensive everything in their houses are. They spend a million or two dollars on AV alone.

Source: I was a pro AV commissioner/programmer for a long time. Fun fact: AV was deemed "essential work" during lockdown. Another fun fact: rich people stopped tipping entirely during lockdown.

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.

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.

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!".

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

"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."

The tumblr user thinks the rich people live in McMansions

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

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 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.

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

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

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

Keuhkopussirotta is a great username