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Comment by dzonga

18 hours ago

you don't make improvements to a house, adorn it with gold all over, make 200m improvements if you have the intention of leaving.

behaviour says more than words

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ptaffs  18 hours ago

i think the person you are talking about doesn't treat houses like most people, i mean he (and his kind) lives for short term gratification and will move on to another house and decorate that with gold.

  • potato3732842  18 hours ago

    >he (and his kind) lives for short term gratification and will move on to another house and decorate that with gold.

    Exactly. It's a social norm among that class of society

    When a Koch, or a Scwab, or the CEO of some mega-corp buys a property on Martha's Vineyard, or the Hamptons, or Vail or overlooking Tahoe or whatever, with intent to actually spend even the scantest amount of time there themselves they engage in absurd unnecessary renovations. That's just how they do things. There is an occasional exception for those in that group who have "found meaning" in some other avenue for lighting money on fire.

    Edit: You can thank me later for implicitly telling you where the best construction dumpsters are.

hamdingers  16 hours ago

Every president remodels and redecorates the White House, often to a much greater degree. The consternation over it is an intentional distraction.

ta1243  15 hours ago

You don't adorn it with gold if you have taste.

Trump is not going to live much longer than 2028 anyway.