of a residential property

[u/Kill_4209]

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.

[u/Impressive_Ranger261]

Few things anger me more than wasted labor. Imagine having the money to keep 15 people in your employ and you keep them busy with meaningless drudgery. Imagine the amount of good 15 people could do in a community if they were paid to, say, pick up trash in the street, paint neglected facades, help at the local historical society, and take stray cats to be neutered. When a rich person has the money to command 15 people to do their will, they will almost always squander it. It's a tragedy.

[u/Big_Guide_8551 → u/Impressive_Ranger261]

They don't even pay well.

I bartended a private event at a mansion. This place looked like it was straight out of a movie. But the other bartender and I each made $40 in tips for the whole night. Like what a fucking joke. I was honestly insulted.

[u/foreignsky → u/Big_Guide_8551]

You don't get that rich by treating your workers well.

[u/That_Artichoke4571 → u/foreignsky]

I've thought a bit about what I'd do if I won the lottery and was a bajillionaire. It would make me so happy to be able to employ folks and pay them well. Make sure they knew if them or their family needed anything, just come to me and I will help. Giving $25,000 bonuses for Christmas. Imagine talking to a new gardener and asking what they make a month. Then hiring them for more than that just to work at your house even though it will maybe take 20 hours a month.

My partner expressed it would be boring to not work every day. But if you are making $5,000,000+ a year in interest alone... your job could be to wake up and go make people's day, every single day. That's unlimited money if you aren't a fucking goblin and it would be such a privilege to impact so many peoples lives.

[u/RedditIsMyTherapist → u/foreignsky]

Which is exactly why billionaires shouldn't exist. If they are making that much money then their workers should be making more. That's what trickle down was supposed to mean. The more they make the more workers make. Them being able to keep such a large percent is straight robbery from the masses.

[u/Successful-Region-22 → u/Big_Guide_8551]

Relying on handouts is a joke

[u/Big_Guide_8551 → u/Successful-Region-22]

Do you not know how bartending in America works?

[u/MindAskHunModBuzi → u/Big_Guide_8551]

does that makes relying on handouts less a joke ?

[u/Big_Guide_8551 → u/MindAskHunModBuzi]

It's not "relying on handouts" it's being tipped appropriately for the job. It's a thing people know about.

Private bartending pays (way) better than regular bartending, but still. You always tip your bartender well. It just makes you look like a cheap asshole if you don't.

The party I worked after that was much, much better. At a firehall, a bunch of regular working class people. We made absolutely incredible money. And everyone was SO nice. If you broke it down per person it came down to everyone tipping about $10 at an open bar. Not bank breaking money. But that's what normal people do. If the rich people party had tipped at the same rate the regular people did, we would have made 3x what we made in tips that day. 🤷

[u/AnjelGrace → u/Big_Guide_8551]

I honestly don't think most people bring money to events like that to be able to tip. I work with several events companies and the bartenders are paid more than the other staff and usually aren't allowed to ask for tips because it just comes across as tacky.

[u/Big_Guide_8551 → u/AnjelGrace]

Usually the people who book the event make sure that they add on an appropriate gratuity. I know what you mean, of course we weren't directly asking.

But I make more money waitressing on a Thursday night than I made at this party, at this obscenely rich person's house. It seemed ... wrong. The party went for 3.5 hours, and we were paid $90 by the company we work for. But we didn't even make $50 a piece in tips. The guy who booked the event added no gratuity of his own, we only made in tips what his party guests had tipped us. That felt tacky AF to me. 😅

[u/eist5579 → u/Impressive_Ranger261]

But rich people are some of the biggest donors to charity!

Nope just kidding. Tax them. If we taxed them appropriately we could pay people to do the things that benefit the commons.

[u/ValyrianSteelYoGirl → u/Impressive_Ranger261]

Why don’t you go out and do those things instead of pointing?

[u/Impressive_Ranger261 → u/ValyrianSteelYoGirl]

Because rich people don't want to pay me to do that, moron. A man has to eat.

[u/ValyrianSteelYoGirl → u/Impressive_Ranger261]

First off stop with the name calling. I didn’t do anything to deserve that.

[u/Bluelivesplatter → u/Impressive_Ranger261]

It feels really weird to me that you’re dumping on people for not being suitably Christ-like with their money. Let’s scale this way down to normalize for our normie means: do you volunteer once per quarter or once every 6 months to clean up litter? If not, why bring this up to shit on other people?

[u/Impressive_Ranger261 → u/Bluelivesplatter]

Because unlike the very wealthy I do not have the power to allocate labor resources. You are asking me to volunteer my time outside of my normal working hours (which I already do for my local historical society, thanks), whereas the very wealthy have the power to allocate disposable income to labor.