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He didn't care for the lifestyle that money can bring. He was living in a nondescript suburban house near Lausanne and kept his old car for 20 years. Much like

He didn't care for the lifestyle that money can bring. He was living in a nondescript suburban house near Lausanne and kept his old car for 20 years. Much like Warren Buffet, he was one of these self-made fortunes for whom money is a way to keep tally.

galfarragem 9y ago
"It's not about the money, it's about the game." -- Gordon Gekko
- icantdrive55 9y ago
  No, the fictional character cared about money: 'I bought that building for 800 grand, and sold it for a few year later for --------. I thought that was all the money in them world. Now it's a day's pay.' 'Enough money to have a girl like Darien?" 'Enough money to not waste time.' He was a greedy bastard---like every guy whom I saw make it big financially. He didn't have an enabling rich father though? He was a community college boy. I graduated college, and went into graduate school. I had a lot of stress, and not much support, nor a life outside of school. I used to do homework with Wall Street, and Platoon playing in the background. I liked those movies because they portrayed the duality of life perfectly, or so I thought back then. I ended up having a nervous breakdown, and rarely watch either movie, but really identified with Sheen's characters in both movies.
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oblio 9y ago
I'll see if I can find the sources but I saw some comments recently that it was a sham, mostly. He did have high expenses. Edit: Wikipedia says: > Kamprad owned a villa in Switzerland, a large country estate in Sweden and a vineyard in Provence, France. I can't guarantee the prices, but those things should be in the multi-million Euro range. Not quite rapper expenses, but definitely not middle class either.
- dagw 9y ago
  Here's a picture of his villa in Switzerland: https://w.cdn-expressen.se/images/7d/e2/7de2bbfb59044fe6bfc39c15918b00cf/16x9/680.jpg https://w.cdn-expressen.se/images/7d/e2/7de2bbfb59044fe6bfc3... I mean it's really nice house and apparently comes with a very big garden and beautiful view of the lake, but it's hardly opulent. In a different, cheaper, part of the world a house like that would definitely be within the reach of at least someone earning a decent upper middle class salary. edit: Here is his "large country estate" in Sweden: https://x.cdn-expressen.se/images/ae/fc/aefca41095674fdcaf01070f629f89a7/4x3/1000@80.jpg https://x.cdn-expressen.se/images/ae/fc/aefca41095674fdcaf01...
  - oblio 9y ago
    > In a different, cheaper, part of the world Key words :) Real estate is 90% "location, location, location".
    - dagw 9y ago
      Obviously. My point is that if you just saw a picture of that house your first thought wouldn't be "Wow, I bet one of the richest people in world lives there". Compare to for example this house: http://luxurylaunches.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Le-Belvedere.jpg http://luxurylaunches.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Le-Belv... which would be expensive basically no matter where in the world you where. And even with it's perfect location it's apparently still 'only' a ~4 million eur. house. It's not even one of the 10 most expensive houses in town. Hell there are 10 more expensive houses for sale around there on homegate.ch right now.
      - dsfyu404ed 9y ago
        Well depending on the body of water it's on my first thought would probably be "which billionaire owns that"
        dagw 9y ago
        It has a view of the lake, but isn't actually close to the lake.

galfarragem 9y ago

"It's not about the money, it's about the game." -- Gordon Gekko

icantdrive55 9y ago
No, the fictional character cared about money: 'I bought that building for 800 grand, and sold it for a few year later for --------. I thought that was all the money in them world. Now it's a day's pay.' 'Enough money to have a girl like Darien?" 'Enough money to not waste time.' He was a greedy bastard---like every guy whom I saw make it big financially. He didn't have an enabling rich father though? He was a community college boy. I graduated college, and went into graduate school. I had a lot of stress, and not much support, nor a life outside of school. I used to do homework with Wall Street, and Platoon playing in the background. I liked those movies because they portrayed the duality of life perfectly, or so I thought back then. I ended up having a nervous breakdown, and rarely watch either movie, but really identified with Sheen's characters in both movies.
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oblio 9y ago

I'll see if I can find the sources but I saw some comments recently that it was a sham, mostly. He did have high expenses. Edit: Wikipedia says: > Kamprad owned a villa in Switzerland, a large country estate in Sweden and a vineyard in Provence, France. I can't guarantee the prices, but those things should be in the multi-million Euro range. Not quite rapper expenses, but definitely not middle class either.

dagw 9y ago
Here's a picture of his villa in Switzerland: https://w.cdn-expressen.se/images/7d/e2/7de2bbfb59044fe6bfc39c15918b00cf/16x9/680.jpg https://w.cdn-expressen.se/images/7d/e2/7de2bbfb59044fe6bfc3... I mean it's really nice house and apparently comes with a very big garden and beautiful view of the lake, but it's hardly opulent. In a different, cheaper, part of the world a house like that would definitely be within the reach of at least someone earning a decent upper middle class salary. edit: Here is his "large country estate" in Sweden: https://x.cdn-expressen.se/images/ae/fc/aefca41095674fdcaf01070f629f89a7/4x3/1000@80.jpg https://x.cdn-expressen.se/images/ae/fc/aefca41095674fdcaf01...
- oblio 9y ago
  > In a different, cheaper, part of the world Key words :) Real estate is 90% "location, location, location".
  - dagw 9y ago
    Obviously. My point is that if you just saw a picture of that house your first thought wouldn't be "Wow, I bet one of the richest people in world lives there". Compare to for example this house: http://luxurylaunches.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Le-Belvedere.jpg http://luxurylaunches.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Le-Belv... which would be expensive basically no matter where in the world you where. And even with it's perfect location it's apparently still 'only' a ~4 million eur. house. It's not even one of the 10 most expensive houses in town. Hell there are 10 more expensive houses for sale around there on homegate.ch right now.
    - dsfyu404ed 9y ago
      Well depending on the body of water it's on my first thought would probably be "which billionaire owns that"
      - dagw 9y ago
        It has a view of the lake, but isn't actually close to the lake.