How many of us opened this thread expecting to find something more "interesting" than a bottle of whiskey...🙄 By the way, fool and his/her money are easily parted...
How obscene is our world becoming when a bottle of whisky can be sold at auction for 2.7million?
How much is this behaviour, shoving it in the face of the ‘have nots’?
It really is disgraceful, IMHO.
It’s not obscene, it’s payback. Some guy thinks he has got unnecessarily extremely rich on the back of ultimately selling stuff to others because another person has calculated his net worth on paper for him. He then has a problem of what to do with the money he’s accumulated and somebody helps him redistribute it by convincing him that a bottle of whiskey is worth that much money (& more because it it was bought at auction then there’s another cost in doing so). The whiskey will never be drunk and it will sit in a secure place until another rich guy comes along and buys it. Redistribution of wealth at its finest as the Emperor gets sold yet another new set of clothes and his wealth slowly filters back down the chain.
Someone has something for sale. Someone wants that thing and is willing to pay the asking price. A sale takes place. A packet of crisps, a bottle of whiskey, a house….no difference.
It's not really rubbing it in the face of the have nots - that's an accusation that could be more accurately targeted at all the shitty celeb tv stuff such as crazy rich agents snooping into multi-million pound houses and the tossers who sell them.
I suppose if you don't drink it, it is like buying gold.
If you drop gold on the floor or hit it with a hammer you’ve still got gold that’s still retained its intrinsic value. If you drop your bottle of whisky or hit it with a hammer you have a smelly wet patch covering bits of broken glass that’s worthless
I think most people around the world wouldn't even know about the auction and even if they did have more pressing issues to concern themselves about.
The only reason I know about it is that it came up in a news feed.
But it does, reflect for me, that when society and our world is in such a mess, where people can’t afford to heat their homes or have to buy food at a food bank, and the unfair distribution of wealth, that, that money would go a long way into changing some peoples lives, rather than wasted on something so trivial!
How many of us opened this thread expecting to find something more "interesting" than a bottle of whiskey...🙄 By the way, fool and his/her money are easily parted...
Was seriously expecting to see some train photos. Disappointed.
It's not really rubbing it in the face of the have nots - that's an accusation that could be more accurately targeted at all the shitty celeb tv stuff such as crazy rich agents snooping into multi-million pound houses and the tossers who sell them.
How obscene is our world becoming when a bottle of whisky can be sold at auction for 2.7million?
How much is this behaviour, shoving it in the face of the ‘have nots’?
It really is disgraceful, IMHO.
You could apply this to a lot of things.
Is it obscene that the Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani built a residential skyscraper alleged to have cost over $1 billion for a family of 6 in a country where millions live below the poverty line?
Is it obscene that someone bought a watch at auction last year for $31m?
Is it obscene that Ralph Lauren owns a Bugatti worth a reported $40m?
The answer to all the above is probably yes, but who really cares? It doesn't affect any of our day to day lives. If people can afford these things then good luck to them.
How many of us opened this thread expecting to find something more "interesting" than a bottle of whiskey...🙄 By the way, fool and his/her money are easily parted...
I doubt they are fools if they have accumulated a few million that they can afford to blow on a bottle of whisky, its probably investment anyway.
I made sure the wife was not lurking before I opened this thread, bit of an anti climax!
How obscene is our world becoming when a bottle of whisky can be sold at auction for 2.7million?
How much is this behaviour, shoving it in the face of the ‘have nots’?
It really is disgraceful, IMHO.
You could apply this to a lot of things.
Is it obscene that the Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani built a residential skyscraper alleged to have cost over $1 billion for a family of 6 in a country where millions live below the poverty line?
Is it obscene that someone bought a watch at auction last year for $31m?
Is it obscene that Ralph Lauren owns a Bugatti worth a reported $40m?
The answer to all the above is probably yes, but who really cares? It doesn't affect any of our day to day lives. If people can afford these things then good luck to them.
Of course, it’s all obscene, this one news bite, highlights that exactly.
Its about awareness of the unfairness of our society where we have such polarised extremes.
How obscene is our world becoming when a bottle of whisky can be sold at auction for 2.7million?
How much is this behaviour, shoving it in the face of the ‘have nots’?
It really is disgraceful, IMHO.
It’s not obscene, it’s payback. Some guy thinks he has got unnecessarily extremely rich on the back of ultimately selling stuff to others because another person has calculated his net worth on paper for him. He then has a problem of what to do with the money he’s accumulated and somebody helps him redistribute it by convincing him that a bottle of whiskey is worth that much money (& more because it it was bought at auction then there’s another cost in doing so). The whiskey will never be drunk and it will sit in a secure place until another rich guy comes along and buys it. Redistribution of wealth at its finest as the Emperor gets sold yet another new set of clothes and his wealth slowly filters back down the chain.
If someone has that much money to fritter away, why not donate it to charities, much better use.
How obscene is our world becoming when a bottle of whisky can be sold at auction for 2.7million?
How much is this behaviour, shoving it in the face of the ‘have nots’?
It really is disgraceful, IMHO.
You could apply this to a lot of things.
Is it obscene that the Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani built a residential skyscraper alleged to have cost over $1 billion for a family of 6 in a country where millions live below the poverty line?
Is it obscene that someone bought a watch at auction last year for $31m?
Is it obscene that Ralph Lauren owns a Bugatti worth a reported $40m?
The answer to all the above is probably yes, but who really cares? It doesn't affect any of our day to day lives. If people can afford these things then good luck to them.
Of course, it’s all obscene, this one news bite, highlights that exactly.
Its about awareness of the unfairness of our society where we have such polarised extremes.
What I think is obscene is the top 3 % of people in the UK having about 97% of the wealth.
Turn that around and it means that about 97% of us only own about 3 %.
We need a major reset when it comes to wealth distribution but I'm not holding my breath waiting for it to happen.
How obscene is our world becoming when a bottle of whisky can be sold at auction for 2.7million?
How much is this behaviour, shoving it in the face of the ‘have nots’?
It really is disgraceful, IMHO.
It’s not obscene, it’s payback. Some guy thinks he has got unnecessarily extremely rich on the back of ultimately selling stuff to others because another person has calculated his net worth on paper for him. He then has a problem of what to do with the money he’s accumulated and somebody helps him redistribute it by convincing him that a bottle of whiskey is worth that much money (& more because it it was bought at auction then there’s another cost in doing so). The whiskey will never be drunk and it will sit in a secure place until another rich guy comes along and buys it. Redistribution of wealth at its finest as the Emperor gets sold yet another new set of clothes and his wealth slowly filters back down the chain.
If someone has that much money to fritter away, why not donate it to charities, much better use.
How obscene is our world becoming when a bottle of whisky can be sold at auction for 2.7million?
How much is this behaviour, shoving it in the face of the ‘have nots’?
It really is disgraceful, IMHO.
It’s not obscene, it’s payback. Some guy thinks he has got unnecessarily extremely rich on the back of ultimately selling stuff to others because another person has calculated his net worth on paper for him. He then has a problem of what to do with the money he’s accumulated and somebody helps him redistribute it by convincing him that a bottle of whiskey is worth that much money (& more because it it was bought at auction then there’s another cost in doing so). The whiskey will never be drunk and it will sit in a secure place until another rich guy comes along and buys it. Redistribution of wealth at its finest as the Emperor gets sold yet another new set of clothes and his wealth slowly filters back down the chain.
How obscene is our world becoming when a bottle of whisky can be sold at auction for 2.7million?
How much is this behaviour, shoving it in the face of the ‘have nots’?
It really is disgraceful, IMHO.
It’s not obscene, it’s payback. Some guy thinks he has got unnecessarily extremely rich on the back of ultimately selling stuff to others because another person has calculated his net worth on paper for him. He then has a problem of what to do with the money he’s accumulated and somebody helps him redistribute it by convincing him that a bottle of whiskey is worth that much money (& more because it it was bought at auction then there’s another cost in doing so). The whiskey will never be drunk and it will sit in a secure place until another rich guy comes along and buys it. Redistribution of wealth at its finest as the Emperor gets sold yet another new set of clothes and his wealth slowly filters back down the chain.
If someone has that much money to fritter away, why not donate it to charities, much better use.
How obscene is our world becoming when a bottle of whisky can be sold at auction for 2.7million?
How much is this behaviour, shoving it in the face of the ‘have nots’?
It really is disgraceful, IMHO.
It’s not obscene, it’s payback. Some guy thinks he has got unnecessarily extremely rich on the back of ultimately selling stuff to others because another person has calculated his net worth on paper for him. He then has a problem of what to do with the money he’s accumulated and somebody helps him redistribute it by convincing him that a bottle of whiskey is worth that much money (& more because it it was bought at auction then there’s another cost in doing so). The whiskey will never be drunk and it will sit in a secure place until another rich guy comes along and buys it. Redistribution of wealth at its finest as the Emperor gets sold yet another new set of clothes and his wealth slowly filters back down the chain.
If someone has that much money to fritter away, why not donate it to charities, much better use.
Who's to say these people don't give lots to charity?
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I think most people around the world wouldn't even know about the auction and even if they did have more pressing issues to concern themselves about.
By the way, fool and his/her money are easily parted...
Command economies fail.
But it does, reflect for me, that when society and our world is in such a mess, where people can’t afford to heat their homes or have to buy food at a food bank, and the unfair distribution of wealth, that, that money would go a long way into changing some peoples lives, rather than wasted on something so trivial!
Is it obscene that the Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani built a residential skyscraper alleged to have cost over $1 billion for a family of 6 in a country where millions live below the poverty line?
Is it obscene that someone bought a watch at auction last year for $31m?
Is it obscene that Ralph Lauren owns a Bugatti worth a reported $40m?
The answer to all the above is probably yes, but who really cares? It doesn't affect any of our day to day lives. If people can afford these things then good luck to them.
I made sure the wife was not lurking before I opened this thread, bit of an anti climax!
Its about awareness of the unfairness of our society where we have such polarised extremes.
Turn that around and it means that about 97% of us only own about 3 %.
We need a major reset when it comes to wealth distribution but I'm not holding my breath waiting for it to happen.
https://www.lse.ac.uk/research/research-for-the-world/economics/tax-cuts-for-the-wealthy-only-benefit-the-rich-debunking-trickle-down-economics
All the same thing really.
Buying a bottle of Whiskey and not drinking it is like exchanging pounds for dollars and not spending it.