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Imagine you’re so wealthy that you would rather leave behind a $340,000 painting than miss your flight

pacamara619 6y ago
From the article it seems it wasn't on purpose: >An unnamed businessman forgot the canvas—an untitled and undated work by French painter Yves Tanguy—at a check-in counter when boarding a flight [...] He soon realized that the 16- by 24-inch painting, which he’d stored in a flat cardboard box, had gone missing, and upon arriving in Israel, immediately contacted German authorities.
- chki 6y ago
  which is also very remarkable. If I had a painting worth 340.000 $ with me, I would not leave it out of my sight, much less forget about it.
  - mhh__ 6y ago
    If it were worth that much I'd chain it to myself a la Snatch
  - Kliment 6y ago
    I've travelled with valuable (to me, not in commercial terms) art in inconvenient packaging and nearly forgotten it on the baggage scanner. Airport stress is real and Düsseldorf is particularly bad (permanently understaffed for its volume, leading to long delays at checkin and insecurity control if anyone calls in sick).
vmception 6y ago
In my first luxury apartment, I was paranoid to leave the door unlocked even momentarily to go to the trash shoot. The concern wears off. The only thing that doesn't wear off is understanding that you wont get any sympathy for the real situations you get into for the rest of your life. That’s the price of admission.
- antisthenes 6y ago
  > The only thing that doesn't wear off is understanding that you wont get any sympathy for the real situations you get into for the rest of your life If you're wealthy, why would you expect sympathy for anything other than terminal illness of yourself or your loved ones? (or similar issues you have no control over) Because for all other issues, you can just call up a service, pay them and have the problem go away.
  - vmception 6y ago
    its actually worse than that, its complete apathy. its understanding that people will feel prideful about loudly expressing their complete apathy over whatever problem you have. wealthy people have problems, you can make a lot and improve your own network by simply listening and being that service.
  - 9HZZRfNlpR 6y ago
    95% of the America is wealthy for and compared to me, also compared to the most of the world. Doesn't mean I can't be compassionate about your working class problems etc. All the problems in my life, for you are a phone call away too.
  - winfred 6y ago
    At some point, I tried this as an experiment. Instead of doing things myself, I tried to hire people to do it for me. I tried a few different things, data labeling, custom sewing work, custom car modifications. Turns out that the work was either done badly when it came to fairly common tasks or people refused to outright do it when it was custom work. I've seen the same thing when I looked at what happened when friends hired others. Maybe there's a point where you have enough money to hire highly qualified people. But I doubt it's anywhere below $10M net worth. Below that you're just not likely to start handing out $150 per hour for what I would consider fairly standard yard or other work. At least I'm not. Or maybe the trick is to hire a supervisor as well. So first you hire someone to do the work and then you hire someone to supervise it. Unless of course the supervisor also does a bad job. But then I can hire a supervisor for the supervisor. Most likely I just wasn't good enough in the hiring process. So I probably should have hired someone to do the hiring for me. But what if I hired the wrong person, because I'm not good at hiring? Now I'm sitting on piles of money and I'm still doing everything myself.

From the article it seems it wasn't on purpose: >An unnamed businessman forgot the canvas—an untitled and undated work by French painter Yves Tanguy—at a check-in counter when boarding a flight [...] He soon realized that the 16- by 24-inch painting, which he’d stored in a flat cardboard box, had gone missing, and upon arriving in Israel, immediately contacted German authorities.

chki 6y ago
which is also very remarkable. If I had a painting worth 340.000 $ with me, I would not leave it out of my sight, much less forget about it.
- mhh__ 6y ago
  If it were worth that much I'd chain it to myself a la Snatch
- Kliment 6y ago
  I've travelled with valuable (to me, not in commercial terms) art in inconvenient packaging and nearly forgotten it on the baggage scanner. Airport stress is real and Düsseldorf is particularly bad (permanently understaffed for its volume, leading to long delays at checkin and insecurity control if anyone calls in sick).

vmception 6y ago

In my first luxury apartment, I was paranoid to leave the door unlocked even momentarily to go to the trash shoot. The concern wears off. The only thing that doesn't wear off is understanding that you wont get any sympathy for the real situations you get into for the rest of your life. That’s the price of admission.

antisthenes 6y ago
> The only thing that doesn't wear off is understanding that you wont get any sympathy for the real situations you get into for the rest of your life If you're wealthy, why would you expect sympathy for anything other than terminal illness of yourself or your loved ones? (or similar issues you have no control over) Because for all other issues, you can just call up a service, pay them and have the problem go away.
- vmception 6y ago
  its actually worse than that, its complete apathy. its understanding that people will feel prideful about loudly expressing their complete apathy over whatever problem you have. wealthy people have problems, you can make a lot and improve your own network by simply listening and being that service.
- 9HZZRfNlpR 6y ago
  95% of the America is wealthy for and compared to me, also compared to the most of the world. Doesn't mean I can't be compassionate about your working class problems etc. All the problems in my life, for you are a phone call away too.
- winfred 6y ago
  At some point, I tried this as an experiment. Instead of doing things myself, I tried to hire people to do it for me. I tried a few different things, data labeling, custom sewing work, custom car modifications. Turns out that the work was either done badly when it came to fairly common tasks or people refused to outright do it when it was custom work. I've seen the same thing when I looked at what happened when friends hired others. Maybe there's a point where you have enough money to hire highly qualified people. But I doubt it's anywhere below $10M net worth. Below that you're just not likely to start handing out $150 per hour for what I would consider fairly standard yard or other work. At least I'm not. Or maybe the trick is to hire a supervisor as well. So first you hire someone to do the work and then you hire someone to supervise it. Unless of course the supervisor also does a bad job. But then I can hire a supervisor for the supervisor. Most likely I just wasn't good enough in the hiring process. So I probably should have hired someone to do the hiring for me. But what if I hired the wrong person, because I'm not good at hiring? Now I'm sitting on piles of money and I'm still doing everything myself.