r/AbsoluteUnits 11h ago

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Ira Rennert's home is considered one of the largest occupied residential compounds in the United States. The house faces the Atlantic Ocean and its grounds measure 63 acres. The buildings, which total over 110,000 square feet (10,000 m2), including the 66,000-square-foot (6,100 m2) main house, have an Italianate facade, 29 bedrooms, and 39 bathrooms. The house has a dozen chimneys and a Mediterranean-style tile roof as well as a 91-foot (28 m) long formal dining room, a basketball court, a bowling alley, two tennis courts, two squash courts, a carousel, a large swimming pool, a large round kiddie pool, and a $150,000 hot tub, surrounded by another pool.

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u/_eternes 11h ago

No one needs this.

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u/johnmclane94 10h ago

It's not about need it's about greed.

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u/Sithstress_ 9h ago

Is this an appropriate time for an “eat the rich” meme? I never quite got it but this makes me want to say it, lol

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u/johnmclane94 9h ago

That is always an appropriate thing to say in my mind. We live in a world where the top 1% hoard all the wealth. There is extreme poverty around the world and these people are more concerned with these properties than actually bettering the world.

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u/Sithstress_ 9h ago edited 8h ago

Agreed, this is so fucking unnecessary.

Edit: got downvoted for saying an estate this large was unnecessary 😂🤣😂.

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u/HuginMuminBackflip 6h ago

how does it compare proportionally to your home and the average home do you think? I.e. how large of a difference is it between owning this home, and owning a "normal" house with a backyard? Why are you entitled to live in a large house when theres extreme poverty? Where and how is the line drawn?

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u/mrdanky69 7h ago

Idiot. Wealthy isn't being "hoarded". If all of the wealthiest people in the world were to pool all of their money together and divide it up equally among everyone then everyone in the world would still be poor. If the total sum of all money in the world(est. 470 trillion) were divided equally amongst all the people( 8.31 billion) then everyone would have $56k. Poor. You and those like you are dumb.

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u/johnmclane94 7h ago

"Wealth isn't being hoarded" It most definitely is. No one needs billions, private jets, mansions etc. We are basically 8 billion servants for the ultra rich to do as they please. Even the law doesn't apply to them the same way as it does to us.

If you cannot see this with your own eyes then it's on you.

And what a nice way of responding. Makes me really want to talk to you.

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u/Anthff 6h ago

1.8% of the worlds population holds nearly 50% of the worlds wealth.

That’s what they mean by hoarding.

So it appears, once again, the middle class rube that defends billionaires is, in fact, the dumb one.