To feel really angry that Petra Eccleston is buying a £98 million pound housewhile while people are starving?

[mightybright]

I am completely judging her for buying a £98,000,000 second home, her first cost £56,000,000.

I'm not jealous, it just makes me feel quite sick that people are dying of starvation and that amount of money would go a long way towards making the world a better place IMO, aibu?

OurPlanetNeptune

Oooof...that's me told

If you've never felt jealous then you are very lucky indeed. It's a normal human emotion, not a great one to have but entirely normal, like (for example) anger.

Now what was the point of the thread again...?

Its a bit of storm in a teacup isn't it expat

It's beyond me that some people think Petra Ecclestone not buying a house is the answer to the world's problems.

Op. At the end of each month, when you have paid all your bills and bought only essential items. all the value brands obviously, do you send what is left of your salary to the third world?
I assume you are a very strong believer in socialism.

Unless she has got the 98 mill by pimping out 3rd world babies then i really don't see why it is anyones business how much she spends on anything.

"It's beyond me that some people think Petra Ecclestone not buying a house is the answer to the world's problems."

Who are those people then Gooseberry?

I don't see any of them on this thread.

Just people sickened by disgusting greed and over-consumption.

There was an article about the sisters in my parents paper, I'm not normally drawn to this type of story but obv after this thread thought I'd better give it a read!

here it's not a bad read

Oh hello bibbity. Greed and over-consumption has rather kept developed economies on the rails for the last sixty years and I don't think workers in developing economies want western greed and over-consumption to end any time soon.

bibbitybobbityhat - Agree totally with everything you have said

SardineQueen - if only I had the answers

Who cares if she gives loads to charity, that sort of money is beyond obscene when people are starving.

spending £98mil on a house is absolutely obscene. unless it is a 300 bed care home

but it has not one single thing to do with the plight of people unconnected to her.

Mamazon, that's ridiculous. If people have a spare £50 they may like to keep it just in case.

It has got lots to do with people unconnected, she has the opportunity to do good, she has chosen and boaksome sum to spend on a house instead. I wonder how people who spend that much on themselves can sleep at night.

a boaksome

So how much should be an acceptable amount to accrue then?
I mean if being rich is so vile?

Don't get me wrong, i think it is an utterly ridiculous amount to spend.

BUT there are things we all buy that others would consider a waste of money. It is the way of life.

Unless we begin a world of rationing and wealth distribution i can see no reason for this girl to suddenly stop buying the things she enjoys, at a cost that she can presumably afford

Her father bought her the house.

The same father that gives 50 MILLION a year to charity.

Will one of you blethering on about how obscene it all is, please address that?

£98 million.....on one house.

that's 20 million mosquito nets.

And I'm not sure I know how much is too much.

that 50 mil doesn't count, cos he hasn't made his daughter live in an inner city bedsit

As I keep pointing out, to a starving child in an indian slum, we all look as this woman does to us. Loaded, stinking, rolling in it. Unimaginable wealth.

The conversation about the inequality around the world is an important one but I say again that this focussing on one individual and accusing her of all sorts of things is simply not the right way to go about it.

And I still find it interesting that a young woman with loads of dosh apparently attracts more revulsion than others of massive wealth, whether earned or inherited.

The house is valued at £92million, so who should have bought it if it wasn't Petra Eccleston? Or should it sit there unsold?

Their family's money, their right to choose how to spend it.

I don't know who she is, but no matter which individual we were discussing the figure is still vile. Perhaps there's an anti woman element to her being singled out, but I have little sympathy for her.

And when you compare us to women in India and how we all look, I'm not really sure we do, India has enough poorly distributed wealth of it's own.

Mamazon - nah, it doesn't count 'cos he's an Evil Rich Bastard who probably votes Tory.