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12 Comments to "World’s Most Expensive Home: $2 Billion Skyscraper!"
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chet
May 3rd, 2008 at
11:42 am
that’s obscene
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cuimhne
May 3rd, 2008 at
4:49 pm
How can someone justify spending so much on one building? Especially somewhere where so many people live in abject poverty.
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Mr Pudifoot
May 3rd, 2008 at
4:54 pm
it’s obscene to spend your money when you have it? The builders probably wouldn’t agree… nor the people that sold them the lumber… or the people that sold the various metals, insulation, electronics, and everything else.
Having this one house built is going to give a lot of people money so they can eat, and make better life for their children.
If the man can afford a 2 billion dollar house, then why shouldn’t he buy one?
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Sofar
May 3rd, 2008 at
9:31 pm
Stylish. A piece of modern architecture I don’t completely hate.
Why take the rich’s money when they usually end up spending it all? That’s redistribution of wealth right there, the capitalist way. Of course, I’m no economist, but it seems pretty obvious to me.
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Carruthers
May 3rd, 2008 at
11:51 pm
chet: the usual anti-capitalist reaction. Try to understand that capitalism is not a zero-sum game. Look upon it as a healthy recycling of the rich guy’s money. The $2 billion spent on this goes to all the people hired to work on creating the building. While they’re paying their rent and feeding themselves and their families they’re making this thing which, with any luck will inspire more people to become greedy (read hungry, passionate) for money. That vision, direction and energy has value that anti-capitalists don’t seem to understand at all.
Rather bland design though. At least from the poor slide show at the link. I’m sure it is far nicer in person but there’s nothing in the pictures I can see that shows it’s a really nice piece of architecture for all that money. -
amir
May 3rd, 2008 at
11:59 pm
The Tacky Mahal
Money clearly can’t buy taste.
(Too say nothing of the stink of sewer and curry…)
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hark
May 4th, 2008 at
8:42 am
yeah, just one giant monument to tackiness. glad to see they’re actually spending some of their money, instead of compulsively parlaying it and scrabbling for yet more power, but maybe that’s what they do with the other 41B. from here it all sounds incredibly contrived and seriously pathetic. that whole country is one giant Beverly Hillbillies episode.
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Diogenes
May 4th, 2008 at
3:06 pm
Just by crossing the threshold you will explode into an enlightend ball of firey bliss, thats how good the Vasstu is!
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Diogenes
May 4th, 2008 at
3:11 pm
p.s. Just think of how many homes like this we could have, if we didn’t spend billions on war!
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Diogenes
May 4th, 2008 at
3:15 pm
p.p.s., I wonder if Mukesh Ambani was the world’s fourth richest man, before he had it built. And good luck, when you decide to sell.
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chet
May 4th, 2008 at
5:11 pm
Nothing against capitalism, I just have a visceral reaction to the super-rich lifestyle. Fleets of cars, jets, etc… The fabulous waste and consumption is what I feel is objectionable. Given the problems with poverty and the environment that the world has to grapple with, I read the article and that was my first reaction. Yeah, I get that spending money drives the economy and creates livelihoods. I just feel that the economy is just one factor to be conscientious of.
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Matt
May 5th, 2008 at
2:59 am
Reminds me of:
http://www.mrwong.de/myhouse
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