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

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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?

"Yes, I do think the very wealthy should give most of their money away. Whyever not? It seems the obvious thing to do with excessive wealth to me."

He does give a large amount of his money away every year, over 20% if his income.

Sorry that was meant to say

He does give a large amount of his money away every year to charity, over 20% if his income.

Who gets to define what is excessive wealth, bibbity?

If it is a starving child in a slum in India, then everyone on this thread had better start flogging their stuff and putting their houses on the market.

thai in that case as I have said all along I think the OP is BU for feeling sick that someone has bought a house, seemingly laying teh responisibility for starving people on her doorstep, picking out (rather suspiciously to my mind) a young woman rather than any of the much better candidates for this sort of comment, and basically making a poor argument.

We have excessive wealth. Most of us do.

Relatively speaking, of course.

I will sigh if I think someone is making ridiculous assumptions.

Bernie Ecclestone is a billionaire. 98 million is small fry to him. He gives away vast sums of money as it is.

Compared to many in Africa and India you are filthy rich but I'm assuming you don't don sackcloth and ashes and give 90% of your wealth away.
It's quite obscene if you buy a takeaway and a bottle of wine tonight when millions are starving.

When you give even a tiny fraction of what Bernie Ecclestone gives away, then and only then have you earned the right to slag him off.

Wine.Thai?

How obscene

Now you are being silly.

Short answer- no!!

I remember Bill Gates giving 1bn to the UN all those years ago - and I thought, what difference will that make?

I believe the biggest help comes from the smallest organisations, the micro-financing, the independent female empowerment groupings, farmer co-operatives and so on.

The one thing Bibity got right was the realisation that if she were to give all this hypothetical wealth away, it would be a full time job ensuring it was not wasted or stolen.

What ridiculous assumptions do you think I am making smashinghairday?

It's the usual thing that everyone thinks of themselves as being the norm.

Fact is that we in the UK are not the norm, we are tremendously lucky, and most of us are fantastically wealthy compared to the rest of the world.

I don't even know why I seem to have ended up adopting a position where I am on "her side" - I actually couldn't give a monkeys. If people want to change inequality then they need to look towards more complete solutions than targeting one woman. One woman who is apparently pretty blameless compared to lots of other wealthy people. She has not eg wiped out a thousand of people by causing an environmental disaster, brought about the murder of entire families, or stolen from anyone. Yet she gets all this stick. I hate it when people say "you're just jealous" on these threads but on the face of it - she's young, attractive and loaded and this seems to have really got up people's noses for some reason

No Thai, I am not.

If being wealthy is obscene then buying wine is obscene because compared to poverty in Africa YOU are filthy, stinking rich.

gooseberry I read a thing the other day saying that the microfinance dream is shot to pieces, which is sad.

Blimey, I do wish you patronising fuckers would stop going on about how rich we are compared to the poor people in Africa and India. Perhaps you seriously think you are saying something of note?

this is the article I read if anyone is interested in the microfinance thing

Can you link? Or just a few words I can google pls would be great. I know people involved in microfinance in Asia, operated by bankers: ie they get time off and funds to go and do it. There is a poster here (not sure I should say the name though I do remember it) involved in small scale but empowering welfare work in Asia also.

So what are you saying, Bibbity?

Rich bastards should give up their wealth 'cos, yunno, they're rich bastards.

but even though I'm a rich bastard in reality I don't have to give up a damn thing?

Because that's what I'm hearing.

It's not patronising it's a fact. A fact that everyone on this thread seems to be keen to ignore, in order to justify why this woman needs to give all her money away ASAP yet they get to keep all theirs.

No - I think 22 year old girls do not need 98 million pound second houses. I think that's quite easy to grasp, although you seem to be having trouble with it shd.

sorry x posted

I don't keep all my money, Sardine. I give a percentage of it away.

But it won't make any difference. It's wasted anger.

90%?

Bibbity.

And you don't need wine or more than two pairs of shoes but I don't see you agreeing you should give the rest away.

Just imagine the difference you giving 90% of your wealth away to an African family would make? It would change their lives. Even save them, maybe.

That was an odd x post.

Would it be ok if she gave away the same percentage as you give away?