cazort:

ulti-buddy:

queenofthyme:

trans-mom:

I can understand a family having two cars. Two or more adults needing to get to work or do their own thing….but why did rich fucks get 10+ cars that’ll never leave a garage? They’re literally bragging rights, no actual use. I don’t care if they’re classics or something, they’re tools that many families desperately need.

Or like, you’re rich so you get a yacht. Ok. I think that’s over the top but ok, you wanted a nice ass boat. But….2? 3? 4? 10? Why? What use are they but sitting there and being bragging rights?

Everyone needs shelter. Rich people having a home makes sense. Two I think is greedy, but whatever devils advocate summer and winter homes whatever. But why the fuck does the richest man on earth have over 30 homes? Once again, that’s bragging rights and greed. There’s no fucking use for that.

I get collecting shit, we all have stuff we like to collect. But I think there’s a sheer difference between collecting kamen rider merch and collecting tools that are necessary to life that serve no use to you.

go off op i love this

or rent them to people so they dont collect dust and actually do something useful

Exactly.

I don’t have a problem with people having stuff. I have a problem with them wasting stuff and not putting it to use.

For example, a lot of college presidents are put up in very big, fancy houses by the university. But these homes serve a purpose, they’re not just for the president and their family, they usually have a very big space on the ground floor that is made for entertaining people, and part of the present’s job is to schmooze with people at large receptions and events, many of which are hosted in their house.

I’ve known families who own beach houses and are very generous about letting people use them. They’ll be like, hey, do you want to come down to the beach? No one is in the house in October, if you have a free weekend in October I know it’s cool but come to the beach, it’s fun. And like, families have rented out their beach houses to church retreats or retreats for other organizations to give them a free or very cheap space.

I know families with really big houses and when the kids start moving out and they have all this empty space, they’re like, oh no, this teenager in our community lost their parents in a sudden accident, let’s adopt them. This young married couple is without a place to live for a few months? No big deal, we have an extra room we can give them and they can live with us in the meanwhile. Let’s host an exchange student.

These things, besides helping people, also lead to a more efficient use of resources in society as a whole. The big house is already being heated, maintained, etc. and if people live in it, they’re benefitting from the resources already expended to do this thing. It’s good for the environment and for the economy too because these people living in the house can save money.

On the other hand I also know people with big houses that stay vacant, unused, and sometimes, fill up with material possessions that themselves are unused or only very rarely used. I think this is really sad and wasteful.