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Why don't rich people build palaces anymore? It actually seems like a really interesting way to raise children they live there for their whole lives and you stay close and the palace is huge so it still feels like you are independent plus the architecture style never really goes out of style you just renovate the inside every few years. idk seems great to me

>> No.11465917

>>11465897
Fuck palaces, if I ever get rich I'm going to build an underground lair

>> No.11465927

>>11465917
make it underneath your palace

>> No.11465930

Because they are pretty expensive to maintain now? Back in the days they had slaves and shit.

>> No.11465935

Do you have any idea how much that costs to heat in the winter?

>> No.11465937

>>11465935
>>11465930
what part of 'rich people' dont you understand?

>> No.11465945
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>>11465927
thought provoking idea

>> No.11465946

>>11465930
>>11465935
like at max $5 million/year which is pennies to the type of person I am envisioning living in a palace

>> No.11465951

>>11465937
>what part of 'rich people' dont you understand?
I think if Bill Gates owned something like this he would fall off his chair when the heating bill came through.

>> No.11465956

>>11465951
bill gates spends $1 million/year on property taxes for his mcmansion

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>>11465897
>>11465945
Though I've got to say, most palaces look like they could just be a hotel somewhere. I'd rather go all the way and build a castle

>> No.11466019

>>11465897
One servant get paid $50,000 per year. 50 servants to maintain a palace, so $2.5 million

Not worth it. Just buy a 200 square meter house. Can be maintained by 1 servant, only cost $50,000 a year.

>> No.11466065

>>11466019
But there is no entry cost to buying a place ever. You and your family don't have to buy new homes every 50 years

>> No.11466263
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11466263

>>11465897
Some still do OP.

>> No.11466844

>>11466263
Trump didnt build the Mar a Lago. Although it's a great looking place

>> No.11467030

>>11466019
>uses meters to measure length like a faggot

>> No.11467046

OP check out the romanian parliamentary palace
That shit is like 80% empty

>> No.11467063

>>11465897
Because income inequality is really bad these days and the elites know this, which is why they are more conspicuous with their wealth these days. When things are more equal, you see rich people flaunting their wealth more.

>> No.11467064 [DELETED] 

>>11467030
Like most of the world and all scientist do? The metric system is objectively better. Stay mad redneck.

>> No.11467065

>>11467063
Fuck sorry i meant inconspicuous.

>> No.11467068

>>11465994
that looks like a real life lego set

>> No.11467077

>>11467065
>Fuck sorry
kek, you can go back now

>> No.11467078

>>11467030
Like most of the world and all scientist do? The metric system is objectively better. Stay mad mutt.

>> No.11467087

Video of the rich taking about building palaces in Poland.
https://youtu.be/btBvUbaRXVg

>> No.11467093

>>11467078
we read you the first time retard

>> No.11467150

>>11467093
Do I spot another mad mutt? Just corrected a typo.

>> No.11467226

>>11467063
This is probably the right answer. They dont want to be a big visible target. After world war 1&2 and the spread of powerful new guns and weapons, It's a lot easier for one pissed off individual to go and fuck them up today

>> No.11467267

>>11467030
Nasa uses metric system
You niggers use feet, inches, gallons and bushels top kek. How more pleb can you be

>> No.11467327

>>11465897
Back then you needed a lot of room in your house because every day you would have one or more of your vassals (plus family) at your house in order to have a meeting. It was necessary to have regular visitations with your vassals in order to manage them. Versailles was built so that Louis could have absolute power over his realm b/c all of his vassals lived in his palace.

>> No.11467338

>>11466019
>>11466065
>>11465897

this, unironically watch downton abbey or read the remains of the day.

>> No.11467721

At least in the US, nearly all mansions built before 1950 would fail to meet the building code. It's also just kind of wasteful, if you were a billionaire sinking most of your wealth into one building, especially one that won't be maintained as a historical landmark, is risky and won't leave much flexibility to do other things.

FWIW, the top-end estimates of Versailles' worth is $300 billion.

>> No.11467732

>>11465897
Watch The Queen of Versailles, it shows a rich dude trying to build a mansion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQW9Ks0GZUQ

>> No.11467747

>>11465994

aesthetic as fuck holy shit

>> No.11468059

>>11465897
Many seem to be pandering to the phony egalitarian zeitgeist.

>> No.11468077

Idont care about a palace but would be cool to build something permanent

A building that will still be around in like 1000 years is the ideal

>> No.11468115

Minimalist studio master race

>> No.11468180
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11468180

If I were rich I would go full H.R Giger style with an underground base.

>> No.11468215

>>11467063
>income inequality
>this maymay
>lmao

For realzies its also fashionable to be "lmao im just like you peasants".

I think they get off on duping poor people that theyre the same when they arent, its not bad that theyre rich, being rich used to be classy and poorer people used to emulate that. Now everyone dresses and acts poor, instead of dressing and acting more classy even if they were.

>> No.11468280

>>11468215

They also brag about working 100 hours a week when they really don't need to work much at all to maintain wealth. Usually it consists of shuffling papers back and forth and doing interviews. To maintain the illusion that they work hard and they are just like the poor hard working common man. Rich people aren't distinct and don't have much of an identity anymore.

>> No.11468515

>>11465935

Thanks Dad

>> No.11468623

>>11468515
If you're cold, PUT ON A SWEATER.
damn kids

>> No.11468820

>>11465956
>McMansion

I don't think you know what this word means

>> No.11469056

>>11465897

Rich people don’t build palaces anymore because the whole point of a palace is it’s multigenerational, and the same rich aristocrats in Europe who have gazillions are living in palaces already.

>he thinks the richest people are the ones in Forbes list

Look it up Forbes list does not include dynastic wealth, plenty of stupidly rich European aristocrats with all their money hidden in palaces and property

>> No.11469072

I'd like to someday build a country house entirely out of granite or limestone.

>> No.11469084

>>11465994

That's a manor house, not a castle.

>> No.11469172

>>11468820
t. mcmansion cutie

>> No.11469179

>>11469056
True, that would be new money and they don't usually have enough for palace lifestyles. Was always curious why Buffett lived like a mcburger his entire life, what a waste

>> No.11469197

>>11467226
Yet the Jews are still dumb enough to flaunt it. This is why they will never win.

>> No.11469203

I think it sounds too much like something saddam Hussein or a drug lord might do nowadays

>> No.11469205

>>11469084
Diff?

>> No.11469221

>>11468280
Yeah believe me I know rich people like this that complain how much they "work", but in all seriousness, most of that so called work is meeting clients in some fancy restaurant to talk business or flying first class out to meet some other client to talk more bullshit at another fancy restaurant. The hardest part of their whole day is waking up early.

>> No.11469235

You fucker that's my idea.
>get the biggest piece of solid granite known to man
>carve the house structure into it and leave it in one total piece

>> No.11469240

>>11469235
>>11469072

>> No.11469819

>>11467046
this op.
>rent part of an existing palace
>build a mcdonalds in your part of it
>mcmansion

>> No.11470620

>>11469179
>>11469056
Pretty much. It's why people dont get how the rothschilds are so rich. They see only one and realize he alone isnt that rich but if you take them as a family they and the waltons are like number 1 and 2 richest.

>> No.11470746

Palaces are so last century, space rockets are the far right now

>> No.11471671

there's one being built in Poland right now


google it

>> No.11472598

>>11465897
they do, pic related

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>>11472598
AHEM, pic related

>> No.11472722

>>11466263
truly the most niggerish of niggers

how embarassing for murica

>> No.11472759

>>11472609
>That disgusting scum-filled pond
Nasty