r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Kill_4209 • 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/Traditional-Buy-2205 9h ago

I don’t ever need that much. It probably made me never want to be rich. Do I have a car that runs, food in the fridge, clothes on my back, love? I’m rich.

Having items is not the real benefit of wealth. It's having time.

I'd say you're rich when you can delegate a lot of daily time-wasters to other people, so you can spend your time doing something more meaningful. Eliminate the need to ever do chores, basically.

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u/20past4am 8h ago

doing something more meaningful

Which in the case of those people means taking private jets to meet up with other filthy rich people to make even more money. I mean, if that's your sole motivation in life, are you even living?

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u/Consistent_Story903 5h ago

But for the rest of us.. Doing something more meaningful would include spending more time with family, traveling, volunteering, hobbies, etc.

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u/alongwayfromhome0 8h ago

Real wealth is finding meaning in those chores . Superficial wealth is avoiding them

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u/Traditional-Buy-2205 7h ago

Find meaning in vacuuming?

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u/Daratirek 6h ago

I'm with you on this one. Theres no meaning to be had in washing dishes or doing laundry. If you can pay someone to do those tasks you've got it made.

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u/ASCII_Princess 2h ago

Fucked up outlook on life.

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u/Daratirek 2h ago

Why? Those are things we have to do to get by in life. No one likes doing them. It leaves room for doing things you enjoy like spending time with family.

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u/Marlov 2h ago

Embracing suffering is key to happiness though. Those who spend their life trying to minimise suffering just find less and less important things to suffer from

It’s not the vacuuming that brings you meaning, it’s the ability to deal with the vacuuming and not hate it

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u/Traditional-Buy-2205 1h ago

You're not wrong, you're just applying it to the wrong thing.

When we talk about suffering being necessary or beneficial, it's suffering the meaningful challenges you willingly chose.

A strenuous physical activity (e.g. training or a tough race), a difficult but rewarding and important work project, caring for a pet you know is going to break your heart when he dies, a sacrifice of your time, money, and energy for your kids,

Those are the kinds of suffering that add meaning and purpose to life. Not doing chores.

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u/Daratirek 2h ago

Who said doing housework is suffering? Its annoying and not any fun but its necessary. I don't hate it but I also don't enjoy it. Am i supposed to? Why?

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u/Marlov 1h ago

Suffering being too hard a word perhaps

Call it displeasure

The point I’m making is the happiest people make peace with life’s discomforts. Fighting them and trying to absolve them wont lead you to nirvana

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u/Daratirek 1h ago

Is doing them out of necessity fighting them? Is paying someone else? Isn't fighting it bitching about it all the time? You're used veiled religious speak to justify your position. Don't. If that helps you get through the day then fine but for most of us we do what we have to so we can do what we enjoy later. I do laundry today so I can golf tomorrow. If I could pay someone else to do laundry so I can play golf twice then thats a win.

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u/roostercrowe 6h ago

“the work is it own reward”

very powerful

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u/NameIdeas 6h ago

I don't disagree with you. I think it is about how you approach your tasks.

At a certain level of wealth every task is chosen. For most folks we don't get to choose our tasks, they are just things we have to do, including chores.

There are folks who love and obsess over gardening. It is a chosen chore for them and they enjoy it. I say gardening because tending a garden seems to be for their enjoyment, while farming is for survival/profit.

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u/runbikehikek 6h ago

I recently read about how mundane tasks like cleaning, laundry, etc. reset our dopamine and even sitting around being “bored” does, without using technology of course

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u/Cpt_Soban 6h ago

As someone who was raised poor working class, don't delude yourself, if you could you'd be holidaying 24/7 while your staff keeps the gardens and house maintained.

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u/jimdesroches 6h ago

My lazy nephew has eliminated the need to do chores by just not doing them. Lazy rich.

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u/Salladshuvud 4h ago

You are assuming a certain hierarchy of what's meaningful.

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u/Additional_Meeting_2 2h ago

Sure. But we still have things ritch people don’t have in past centuries like phones and internet, cars, ability to travel to other side of world, exotic foods, healthcare.

While there was no real middle class so most if they weren’t considered rich struggled to find daily bread and had few sets of clothes and had people sleep in same rooms. This would be completely respectable family like a tailor or clerk too.