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Maybe it just me, but I never found the huge, marbleized, gold-plated mansions to be particularly appealing. Across the street from where I live, there are row

Maybe it just me, but I never found the huge, marbleized, gold-plated mansions to be particularly appealing. Across the street from where I live, there are rows of multi-million dollar mansions that look like they were ripped right out of Scarface, and I just wonder what the motivation is... Don't get me wrong, I intend to have a nice living arrangement when it's all said and done, but I feel like that amount of luxury would actually detract from the livability.

pg 19y ago
What people like about those places is the idea of living in them. Unlike physical stuff, ideas can be arbitrarily expensive, so they comprise a lot of what gets sold to the very rich. I suspect practically everyone who owns a Picasso, for example, likes the idea of owning a Picasso more than they like the actual painting.
- Alex3917 19y ago
  Seth Godin wrote a whole book about this. (All Marketers are Liars, my favorite SG book as it were.)
- mhartl 19y ago
  The greatest meal I ever had was at Picasso at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. The decor you can guess. The food was great, but damn, the paintings were ugly.
rokhayakebe 19y ago
if room quantity > number people living in the house + 2 then it is a waste. in fact i would say these people are pretty dumb. no matte how much i make i wont buy anything other than http://napaprefab.com/ http://napaprefab.com/ but hey that's only me.