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Britain’s richest family sentenced to 4 years in jail
(www.theguardian.com)
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I will never understand the giga-rich. They could afford to hire round-the-clock help at rates that both buy expertise and inspire loyalty. Your house staff know where the bodies are buried, maybe literally—there's no world where it makes sense to pay them less than six figures. Remember, $100,000 is 0.01% of $1,000,000,000, or about 0.003% of their estimated net worth of $37B. They could hire an extra maid at $100,000/year and not even notice the expense.
But they can afford even more than that. Splurge a little. Hire a specialist in early childhood education to tutor your kids. Get a chef who graduated from a renowned culinary school. They could afford to spend millions on salary. Why skimp? What do they think they are saving up for?
If you think like that (and I think everyone should) then you will never be rich. Exploiting others is in their blood.
You know it's bad when even a two thousand year old gospel considers "rich people don't go to heaven" to be divine wisdom. It has always been thus.
There's no way the CEO of my last company - making a cool 6mil one year that I saw an article about the shareholders paying him a bonus of another few mil - works 125 times as hard as my 48k (gross) ass.
Maybe they like to exercise power over others. Sociopaths like to hurt people.
I think you have a little of that, and a little of this showing that the giga-rich didn't get that way because they are these perfect human multi-specialty geniuses like they all claim.
Sure, maybe they're pretty bright in one or two areas. Many successful people are. But they also do real stupid, shortsighted shit like this all the time. They got as rich as they did not on merit, but on family wealth, luck, and exploiting the labor of others.
That's what I don't understand either. It can't just be about money at that point right? Like they must intentionally be trying to bring back slavery or something.
It's not about the money. It's about power.
That's what a friend of mine does - he is rarely home because the rich family that employs him want him on hand 24/7 and they pay accordingly. They get top notch food whenever they want it and are pretty safe from getting their food spat in. The Hindujas have probably ingested a lot of phlegm over the years. Should be good practice if they ever actually end up in prison.
Exactly. All those 'extra milky' cappucinos.
Scum people deserve scum service.*
Dude if they have been served Indian food there could be literally anything hidden in there...
I adore Indian culture and their foods are so delicious but man sometimes it looks like poo