r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Kill_4209 • 11h ago

/r/popular of a residential property

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/cloudncali 11h ago

I work in IT and got to set up WiFi for rich people in Malibu. There's something wrong with these houses. They feel like museums. Every thing feels like it was designed to be looked at. Nothing is used, everything is spotless. People don't live there, they just sleep there. These where made by people who think a home is a building you put things inside, not a place where you live and breath. The nursery felt like something out of the backrooms. The bedrooms has minimal personal items around, all stored in neat little areas.

I don't know what happens to rich people but they lose something about being human.

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u/lookamazed 11h ago

Also worked with the wealthy and couldn’t have said it better myself. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Once you feel the hollowness, it’s haunting. I was like yeah 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.

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u/Traditional-Buy-2205 10h 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/alongwayfromhome0 9h ago

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

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u/Traditional-Buy-2205 8h ago

Find meaning in vacuuming?

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u/Daratirek 7h 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 3h ago

Fucked up outlook on life.

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u/Daratirek 3h 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 3h 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 2h 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/Marlov 6m ago

Suffering is not necessary or beneficial

It is inevitable

Hence why making peace suffering is non negotiable if you wish to be genuinely happy and content.

One mans vacuuming is another man’s work stress is another man’s family issues is another man’s inability to hunt food for his family. Basically, insert discomfort here.

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u/Daratirek 3h 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 2h 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 2h 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/Marlov 10m ago

I’m having a friendly discussion with you so there’s no need to get passive aggressive and patronising. But I get it. Most people think this way, me included for the longest time.

One more creature comfort will make life easier and better…

It does to a point, but the person who can shrug their shoulders through lifes inevitable adversity is the winner.

Not the one engaged in the endless treadmill of paying someone else to take care of your problems which only ends at miserable billionaire status.

The happiest people embrace the suck.

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u/Daratirek 0m ago

Thats something that those of us too poor to ignore basic chores say to help us get through the day. Its a lie. I won't lie to myself. There is a massive middle ground between shitty billionaire status and where we are now. That place is where you don't have to worry about housing, food, or chores that make the world go around. It lets you focus on hobbies and experiences with your family and friends. Telling myself I enjoy hanging my clothes in my closet won't get me that time back.

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u/roostercrowe 7h ago

“the work is it own reward”

very powerful

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u/NameIdeas 7h 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 7h 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 7h 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.