Mukesh Ambani, India's richest man and the 4th richest man in the world, is moving into a $1 Billion home. Yes, you heard that right; a man from India, who you may never have heard of, has a $1 billion (with a 'B') home.
Mukesh Ambani, and his wife and 3 kids, are moving into their new home, which isn't really much of a home by our standards. It is more of a skyscraper... a 27-story tall skyscraper to be exact. This Mumbai home/skyscraper is a named after the mythical island of Antilia, and has all of the creature comforts you would expect to find in a $1 billion home.
It has a health club, a ballroom, guest rooms, lounges, a 50 seat theater, a Starbucks. No, wait, there is no Starbucks. There is, however, an elevated garden, three helicopter landing pads, and an underground parking garage that parks 160 cars. It will be nice to have a place to valet park your closest 300 friends that come over to watch the cricket match for 3 straight days. Mr. Ambani’s ‘Antilia’ will even have a place that his cricket watching buddies can sleep over.
How many staff members does it take to run the Ambani household? If you guessed a staff of 600, you would be correct. It takes plenty of people to run around and clean 27 stories, and nearly 400,000 square feet of space.
So, does Mukesh Ambani need all of the space? Who knows, but it would be fun to go shopping with his wife, when she picks out furniture.
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Comments: 27
Happy on the misfortune of the poor? I didn't get that from this story. Maybe you know more about him personally than I do; but what I get from this story is this guy employs at least 600 more people than might otherwise be employed if he wasn't so fortunate. Which does not include those he employed over the years while making the money it takes to be able to build and maintain a home like this.
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Jobs they might not have otherwise.
So, does Mukesh Ambani need all of the space?
Um ... his money, his choice. His dream, his his his. What do I care what he does with his own money?
When he starts spending mine, or taking lumber from my house to build his house, I'll get huffy and angry.
Worrying whether or not he "needs" all that space is tantamount to saying he doesn't deserve it (some may believe that but who are any of us to say what he deserves and doesn't deserve?) and that someone should take it away ("when the revolution comes"). Hmm....
Oh, he made it on the backs of or stole it from .... 'the little people' in the wake of the misfortune of the poor? Paleeese. If he hadn't been making that money, the people he employed along the way wouldn't have had jobs.
And just because they work for a man doesn't mean they get a percentage of what his business earns ... just because it exists doesn't mean a business is automatically a property of all the people or even of the employees.
This guy may or may not be a nasty murdering scoundrel ... but it's more likely he's someone like you or I who worked hard for what he has and just wants to enjoy it.
I bring it down to a level I can actually grasp. We have four bedrooms and a four car garage. There may be .... let me amend; there are some reading this who will ask the same question of my hubby and I. Do we really need a four car garage? Four bedrooms?
Applicable to my hubby and my situation as well as to whatsisname (Ambani) and his house, my answer is --- What's it to ya?
We wanted them and could afford them. What business is it of anyone's but mine and my hubby's what we have or will spend our money on? If we don't have it, does that mean you get any piece of it?
My hubby worked 18 hour days for most of twenty years (and still works an 8-9 hour day) for us to be able to have what we have ...
This guy Ambani ... really, what business is it of anyone's what he spends his own money on? If someone wants what he's got, get an idea and put it to work for your own self .. build your own house!
And even though this man is the epitome of "conspicious consumption" he has the same right.
Correct.
Hmm... We started out in a 3 room apt, a second hand table with one chair, a toss-out tv that got one channel, and magazines we were allowed to pick up from the Doctor's office ....
If anyone was to say to me that we took what we have from someone else (just because there are still poor people in the world and now we have more than we used to and more than some others have), well, them's fightin words here in Texas ... Would we, or Ambani actually be better people if we or him was still living in a one or two room shack/ walk up than we are today having worked for every penny and every room we've got?
No, but then we wouldn't have any outward trappings with which to tempt others into calling us greedy, prideful, and avaricious .... However, those who do so probably don't need much tempting --- seems like anyone who has anything different or better or more, has or will become "THE ENEMY" ...
Instead of getting out there and making his own, or helping to make an atmosphere where he can make his own or his children can make their own ... the man with a shack covets what the man with one room and bath has, the man with a coat covets the gloves another man has, the man with one car will covet the second one of his neighbor ... an attitude which translates easily and sometimes quite quickly into the man who has only one dollar thinking the man with 10 dollars owes him 5 of those dollars ('a rising tide raises all boats? an afinity with redistribution of the other man's wealth) - so he goes out and knocks that man over the head and takes all ten (the revolution?).
Nora J A. Nov 1, 2010, 2:25pm EDT
I'm with you Lee, you earned it and the right to spend it on what you want! And even though this man is the epitome of "conspicious consumption" he has the same right. Plus, you are also right about all those people he put to work!
It certainly would. :)
Nora J A. Dec 3, 2010, 10:40am EST
Hey, maybe all our wealthy folks need to build bigger homes and hire lots of help to maintain it! Help solve the unemployment crisis!