[Image description: a dining room with teal blue walls, with a pink neon sign saying “let them eat cake” written in cursive.]
Y’all be sure fire season is over before you burn it down.
I mean we already have a solution to this don’t we?
If this doesn’t radicalize you, nothing will.
Who gets radicalized by a real estate listing?
Watching a basic human need go unrealistically out of reach for average hard working people should radicalize just about anyone.
A mansion in Beverly Hills is now a basic human need? This isn’t exactly affordable housing…
The fact that we have Beverly Hills mansions when there isn’t enough affordable housing, obviously.
The mansion isn’t taking the place of affordable housing. It’s taking the place of an art collection, a yacht, or some other status symbol that rich celebrities might want. The price of mansions doesn’t affect anyone except those rich celebrities, and they want mansions to be expensive because that makes them better status symbols.
Mathematically, there is a finite limited number of resources on the planet.
Why are resources going into social status symbol when not everyone has their basic human needs met?
Why is it a higher priority that a rich person have a mansion to show off how rich they are, then have many other people get a roof over their head at night?
You have a point, but status symbols are positional goods so often their high cost doesn’t correspond to a large use of resources. If one rich guy buys a painting from another rich guy, ten million dollars changes hands but that’s it; ten million dollars worth of stuff isn’t being used up.
This isn’t always the case - I presume an expensive yacht really does take a lot of resources to build. And this mansion took resources to build too. Still, the most valuable thing about the mansion is its location - the same mansion but not in Beverly Hills might be worth ten times less. I think it’s more like the painting than like the yacht.
Is the affordable housing here with us now?
When I’m looking at homes to actually buy, I look for areas and homes that I, and other normal people, can afford. It’s a big country, you don’t have to live in California, nor does anyone need a massive home.
I’ll look at the crazy stuff, but just for fun. I’m not shopping and getting upset about it.
Its so simple for you but for those of us that actually grew up in places like California we don’t want to move 800 miles just to afford a house. We don’t want to move away from our friends and family members just to be able to afford a house in the middle of butt-fucking nowhere.
Someone in your family’s history made the choice to leave family to move there for what they thought would be a better life. Maybe with how things are going there, people need to start leaving California for the same reason.
I’m not saying anyone has to leave, it’s you’re life and you can do whatever you want. I’m just saying that maybe if the option was on the table people would feel a little less stuck and helpless.
Well I mean some people have to live in California, New York, Ontario and other obscene high COL areas. There are also a lot of jobs that really ONLY exist in Los Angeles in any meaningful way. Doesn’t have to be 18m but go ahead and try to find a house in one of those regions within your budget and imagine having no alternative.
Plus they are nice places to live with more progressive state laws and protections some people don’t feel safe leaving. I know what you’re trying to say and I understand. Just want to point out that people are able to look at RIDICULOUS real estate to laugh at or daydream or cure curiosity, and then get frustrated because honestly all their options feel just as ridiculous and unachievable.
Are those jobs really worth it if every dime you make goes toward the inflated costs of living there?
Some people might feel they need to live in a certain place, but that doesn’t mean you need to be one of them. With 50 options in the US, and several more if you’re including Canada with Ontario, I think people have more options than they think. Also, go down to the city level. All of Ontario isn’t Toronto.
If someone isn’t working a job that enables them to pay those inflated prices, I don’t think it’s worth being there.
Right… Leave a meaningful career that you love, and go swing a hammer in Nebraska, 2500 miles from home, friends, and family, just so you can have food and shelter.
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I see you’ve never tried to buy a house.
I have. What does that have to do with anything?
That circular couch with the walkway upstairs looks like the house from Incredibles 2.
My wife is a pastry chef and her dream is to open her own pastry shop and called it “let them eat cake”.
“Up the Bundt” would be a better name.
Your wife must attain her dream!
I wouldn’t. That’s just begging for a guillotine shop to open up next door.
People forget that it was the bakers that got it first at the start of the French Revolution.
That might make it difficult to get an online presence since the name is a common phrase.
Elon is having the same problem with X because… well it’s a letter that’s part of the friggin language.
Yes, Elon is really struggling to get him or his business mentioned online lol
I mostly see it being mentioned as the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, because X isn’t specific enough lol
Let them eat the rich
The bourgeoisie know EXACTLY what they are, and what the joke is. They get it. They’re laughing at us.
Constantly laughing at us. They know how stupid we are for doing exactly what they want like their little slaughter pigs. Generation after generation, we obey them with a smile on our faces.
So I mean, can you really blame them for laughing at the joke, when we’re the ones making it funny for them? :-(
Would you blame the jester or the king for the plauged citizens locked out?
#الجزيرة للديكور وتشطيب واجهات المنازل المصرية باجود انواع الحجر الطبيعى وباقل تكاليف تشطيب واجهات منازل مودرن بين اسعار الحجر فى مصر
I didn’t realize at first that the property manager decorated it all this way to be ready for renting out lol
The over-the-topness of it all makes more and less sense that way- let them eat cake and monopoly man, naked newspaper reader and swimmer ladies, cocaine ad bench cushion by the pool
Who gets dressed to read a newspaper?
All of what is shown is in line with rich SoCal taste. I entirely believe that it is done as it has been lived in.
1326 Beverly Estate Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, USA
I very badly want to know what that pattern is in the pool. The striping is tacky but what’s that crest/logo?
Hah, same! Tried to zoom in, but no luck reading it.
The Beverly Estate?
Looks like it says “The Beverly Estate”. I really like the “Cocaine toothache drop” backrest on the pool bench, stay classy 1%!
Oof that’s bad. Also looks like they’re about to build something big up that hill and there will be other houses looking down now.
Lol… looking down right into their pool area… hehe
It says “The Beverly Estate,” in part because it’s located at 1326 Beverly Estates Dr. in Beverly Hills.
You beat me, I swear I hadn’t seen your comment before I flew around Beverly Hills on the map and found it
Tacky is an understatement. The striping is superglue.
Is it still “tone deaf” if they know exactly what they’re saying?
Yeah, tone deaf isn’t the right word. Overtly evil and stupid is probably the phrase they were looking for.
Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
I could easily see an out of touch rich person thinking of it only as a thing that goes along with rich people, (and not realize the actual meaning).
Like the rich person equivalent of “live laugh love” and “it’s wine o’clock”?
By the way if anybody has any of those on their walls, I hate you and you deserve death.
Only three bedrooms? No thanks.
The cake is a lie!
The cake is a lie!
I think I’m the only person who gets sent to the general Beverly Hills listing page rather than this specific listing.
