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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How in the fuck do you even spend $600M on a wedding? It's a truly mind-boggling amount.

Death to all billionaires.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago

The richest guys in india(Ambanis) did a very lavish wedding for their son where they shamelessly flexed their wealth on the mostly poor Indian population for months.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

probably to pay people to show up

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Imagine being the pathetic kind of person that has to spend $600,000,000 on a wedding solely for your own (and I suppose your partner's) happiness, while millions of people around the world are starving, losing housing, unable to afford medical procedures, etc.

Hoarding this much wealth in the first place should be classified as a mental disorder.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago

We treat hoarding as such, I'd like to see someone explain how hoarding with is any different.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

You don't accumulate that much money by caring about other people.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

that's a hitman level for sure

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

agent 47 eliminating borzos in the dressing room and putting on his shirt then walking up to the podium with a poisoned ring, no one batting an eye

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Humans are feckless creatures for allowing it to get to this point. Like seriously what the actual fuck, how do we let these people exist

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

90% of people are submissive pain piggies. It’s the only explanation

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 day ago (4 children)

how do you spend over half a billion on a wedding? did he buy the entire city of aspen and surrounding mountains?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I mean, if I were a wedding planner/caterer/anyone on staff and Jeff Bezos asked me to do his wedding, I'd upcharge the hell out of him.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago

i would take the deposit and use it to hire freelancers to do some kind of Die Hard 1 / Die Hard 3 / Under Siege sort of situation. or just get everybody to ingest/inhale ricin lol. just kidding, i would never do that because it's illegal and i am a good boy.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

someone just bill him for $450,000 for some vague reason and say it's for the wedding. he might pay it

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

i've heard of people doing that kind of thing, like invoicing some giant multinational company for something after they've figured out the address for accounts payable or whatever and getting away with it. but i've also heard of people getting caught in an audit and hit with fraud charges because it went through the US mail, which above a certain amount is a felony. but, respect the grift lol.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

OK but if I can get to a country that doesn't extradite before then I should be in the clear right? Hypothetically

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

What if I normally charge that amount, but I give everyone except Bezos a massive "not being evil" discount?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

That's like 5 massively wasteful Hollywood blockbuster movies what the fuck

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's probably not the actual cost. Sensationalism from NY Post.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago (1 children)

yeah he probably only spent like $450 million, which whomst among us.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah we've all spent $450+ Million on a wedding at some point or another, of course

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

You can divide $450 million by 157 and it's still more money than I'll make in a lifetime. For one event.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Was gonna say I know wedding can be expensive but damn

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

This is like twice what my wedding cost, insane

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Assuming this number is accurate, it's roughly 0.2% of Bezos's estimated net worth, or equivalent to the median American household spending $400.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago

Rich people have no souls, change my mind.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

i thought they married years ago

i can't imagine how much of that $600 million will go toward security

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Idk but I bet it's more than a hitman would charge and still wouldn't be able to stop a hitman. I very much doubt we'll see headlines about a hitman getting arrested or killed at this wedding. Maybe a lone wolf conservative with bad aim, but not an actual contract killer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

I feel a hitman wouldn't choose the $600 million dollar wedding as the moment to strike.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

~~What are contract killers even up to then?~~

it's probably creating tragedies in the Middle East and Africa as mercenaries for the US military.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

if we're going for lore accuracy they'd be the Mangione brothers, meaning their name would be Mangione Mangione

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

mangione mangione

on ya wedding day your man'll be gione

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

She likes him for his body

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

Well she certainly doesn't like him for his weird fucking face.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago

Mario Lopez has the chance to do something very funny.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

Lots of hidden places around there, with beautiful overlooks.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unrelated to anything in the article, but I know commercially available drones are programmed to shut down when entering restricted airspace. I wonder if they're programmed to shut down close to any sort of civilian stuff like a large crowd, or a place someone would want to keep private?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Something that just popped in my head for no reason is that most decent quadcopters broadcast the gps coordinates of the person operating them.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

if your nuptials didn't take place astride matching albino white elephants, is your love even sanctified?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My first thought was something about the guy from Saved By The Bell, then I realized that wasn’t it.

How much paperwork is she signing before hand? I have to imagine a ton of lawyers, and paperwork involved here. Not that I care beyond the superficial, but involving what they have to involve to get hitched doesn’t sound fun. Like, let’s spend the rest of our lives together fun, or even let’s make a mistake in Vegas right now kind of fun. But whatever, I’m terrible at making relationships work so wtf do I even know.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

I don't think these people can even have fun. Certainly not in an empty room by themselves. This kind of flex shit is the closest they can get. Conspicuous consumption on an imperial scale, pretending to be the center of the universe.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

(From George Jackson's Blood in my Eye)

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I really need to read some George Jackson. This is from Soledad Brother.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

George Jackson is fucking dope. Very considerate thinker, we def lost one of the great English theorists when he passed.

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