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Recent graduate of Texas Tech University. I am now working for the "man" and hating it.

Friday, May 2, 2008

Definition of Greed


There is an article on Forbes.com today that really pissed me off. The title of the article is "Inside the World's First Billion-Dollar Home." This home, which is actually a 27 story skyscraper in downtown Mumbai, is not going to cost a billion dollars. It is going to cost $2 billion. The owner of this testament to the insatiable greed of man is Mukesh Ambani, head of a petrochemical company in India. He is reportedly worth $43 billion and is the world's fifth richest man.


If anyone can justify to me why someone needs a $2 billion house, I welcome their comments. This family of 5 would apparently be cramped on anything short of 440,000 square feet of living space.


Given the current food crisis in much of the world today, do you think that this man could have made the ultimate sacrifice and only built a $1 billion house and given a billion to charity? Of course not. Why save lives when he could shit on a gold toilet? Do you know how many people $1 billion could feed? Me either, but I bet it would buy a shit-load of rice for the poor in Africa (or his home country of India for that matter).


Now I am sure that Ambani is involved in numerous charitable activities (or at least he should be), but there is simply no way you can justify building a house that costs more than the GDP of 30 countries in this world.