Jeff Bezos' D.C. Mansion

[Different Drummer]

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Any billionaire opposing a wealth tax is an asshole.

[dchill]

26. Well, yeah.

[gopiscrap]

32. wrong any billionaire is an asshole period

whether they oppose a wealth tax or not

[Maraya1969]

33. Sticking a link to his tweet so people can retweet it if they want.

Link to tweet

[mountain grammy]

38. Thank you.

[JoeOtterbein]

2. K n R

90% means nothing to them but numbers on a spreadsheet. We can use the money to feed and care for so many more.

[MadLinguist]

3. who needs 25 places to take a shyte?

Do rich people just have more assholes than everybody else?

[Paka]

5. Exactly what I was thinking!

[ornotna]

7. Not more

Just bigger

[intheflow]

25. It's a former museum, so plumbing

was probably already in place for most of those bathrooms. And if it’s already there, use it so none of your guests have to wait for the loo at any given party. Seems extreme to us little folk, but I can see me making the same call if I had that kind of money, tbh.

Though I admit, the idea of his having such severe bowel discomfort 24/7 that he needs to be able to duck inside a stall immediately to avoid soiling himself is a charming counter narrative to ponder. 🙂

[Wounded Bear]

27. They do tend to hang out with more assholes that others do...

[IronLionZion]

4. To use a different bathroom every day?

More info

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7656591/Jeff-Bezos-23m-Washington-DC-mega-mansion-near-completion.html

https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/11/04/the-mysterious-delays-at-jeff-bezoss-dc-mansion/

[appalachiablue]

18. The property is on "S" Street; makes sense.

https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/11/04/the-mysterious-delays-at-jeff-bezoss-dc-mansion/

[IronLionZion]

30. S for supervillain

[Marie Marie]

6. I have something that Bezos, Trump and their ilk will never have.

I have the notion that I have enough - and for that I am thankful.

[tclambert]

9. For some of the rich, it will never be enough while even one other person still has a penny

of their own.

[tblue37]

35. Robert Vaughan, as the villain in Superman III, says, "It's not enough that I win; everyone

else must lose."

[Pacifist Patriot]

15. Well said

[Wounded Bear]

28. Yep, they want more...

[CatWoman]

8. K; R

[evemac]

10. I have shopped at Whole Foods

Since it was an itty bitty store on Lamar in Austin in the '80s. The minute Amazon took over, I was done. I will never go in there again.

[Liberal In Texas]

14. After Amazon took over

It isn't much different than Randalls/Tom Thumb/Albertsons or Kroger.

Thank the food god we still have HEBs Central Market.

(Oh and Trader Joes works too.)

[crazytown]

11. Hookers on tap

wearing 2 carat rings?

I have friend who was a very senior engineer with Amazon Web Services. Amazon flew him coach.

[Hulk]

12. Amen

This kind of wealth is immoral and insane!

[MontanaMama]

13. God damnit.

isn’t it counter intuitive to take health care away from your employees? When people are health and not worried about going bankrupt if they get sick, they come to work which benefits them, their families, the employer and lots of other people. Jesus. I own a small business that provides health insurance to our 7 employees. I could have any luxury home in MT if I didn’t have to pay the premium for their insurance. AND, I couldn’t enjoy that home or live with myself if I didn’t provide insurance. It’s a win win to have healthy happy employees. Fuck Bezos.

[mucifer]

16. and then theres Costco that treats their employees really well and is doing just fine

[dalton99a]

21. +1. They need to open more locations - with gas.

It is a good and well-run company

[Vinca]

17. There must be a person with a full time job of changing light bulbs.

I hope there's an indoor pool or two. What self-respecting billionaire would buy a giant mansion without a pool?

[defacto7]

23. Well, let's not go to extremes.

[dchill]

29. It would be two part-timers, to avoid paying benefits.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. Long overdue. Billionaires suck off the teat of public spending on infrastructure.

Those roads and airports don't build themselves.

Nor is the carbon properly accounted for when goods travel half way around the world to inflate 1% pockets.

[Farmer-Rick]

20. Capitalism allows Bezos and his small family to have 25 places to take a dump

While a few blocks away, another small family can not find one home with 1 bathroom they can afford to live in.

A few blocks away from Bezo's 1,006 light fixtures an elderly woman has to decide to eat or pay for her medicine.

This is capitalism and how it makes the most cruel and immoral situations normal.

[ConstanceCee]

22. But...

He did buy the Washington Post, and their reporters have done the digging that might bring this Republican/Trump nightmare to an end. There are many Amazon -related things I do not like, but I keep reminding myself of the Washington Post.

[dalton99a]

24. He knows the long-term value of that paper comes from its reputation

It was an investment for him as much as anything else

[blueinredohio]

31. Well, you never know when you'll have company.

[spike jones]

34. Wealth is waste. n/t

[zentrum]

36. The rich are brutal.

[LuvNewcastle]

37. I thought he lived on the West Coast.

Is this an extra home for him or is he re-locating?

[Hotler]

39. Stop picking on the rich. I'm sure there are some fine rich people in the mix.

I made myself urp writing that.