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If you’re a billionaire EVERYTHING is fantastic.
by brtkdotse 2y ago
If you’re a billionaire EVERYTHING is fantastic.
- shiroiushi 2y agoNot necessarily: if you're famous, you might have a hard time going out in public.
- highwaylights 2y agoHire your own public and make them act normal when you’re around.
- ben_w 2y agoI think that's more a problem with being famous: the top of the Wikipedia list* as I write this is "Bernard Arnault & family", who I've never heard of and therefore couldn't spot in a lineup much less a crowd. But I did double-take when walking past Russell T Davis (or a lookalike) in Sheffield a decade and a half ago, and Richard Osman in Cambridge train station some other time. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Billionaires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Billionaires
- shiroiushi 2y agoThat's why I said "if". Some billionaires are not well-known publicly, and then there's Elon Musk or Bill Gates.
- ben_w 2y agoIndeed, though I think he likes it that way, and that it's a choice.
- MrDresden 2y agoThere are 2781 billioners in the world (according to first search result). I'm fairly sure most of those can go out for dinner or drinks and no one would know who they were.
- impossiblefork 2y agoYou'd still stuck with the built environment as it is, just as everybody else. A billion is just three Manhattan skyscrapers, so it can't change a city. Depending on where you live, you might well experience the exhaust, dust and noise of these environments, no matter how luxurious your individual dwelling.