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Romeo Beckham gets £45 grand for a days work.

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Pollyteacakes · 12/11/2014 18:25

How much does this family need. Burberry have paid 12 year old Romeo £45.000 for one days work modeling. I don't wear Burberry myself but if I did that would probably put me off ever buying it again. How far will this family go for publicity and money. Small change to them though. But isn't there something wrong when a 12 year old gets in one day what it might take most of us a year or two to earn?

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Southeastdweller · 13/11/2014 20:52

Cariads How many people do you think she has helping her? I don't think it's helpful to compare her to most businesswomen.

AliceLidl · 13/11/2014 20:52

"Alice .....I've not been polite?......I got told to fuck off back to my council house in an earlier thread...…."

Not by me. I haven't seen your earlier thread but my first post to you on this one didn't include anything like that in it.

I've said several times, the fact that you were using them as an example (and an example of what) rather than making a personal attack on them for the sake of it, was not clear in your OP.

If it had been more clear you might have had a more supportive response generally, as it is, to a lot of people, you came across as attacking a family for having money, as attacking a woman for trading off her husbands name, as attacking a twelve year old child for having wealthy parents, and as attacking everyone who disagreed with you just because you found it funny.

No, you weren't polite to me when you replied to my first post, and haven't been to many people on here.

CariadsDarling · 13/11/2014 20:53

LepetiteMarseillais - hard work is hard work whether its trying to make a profit from a hobby or running a business such as the Beckhams run. I admire them for having the brains to sit in on high level meeting regarding the world of finance for e.g. and understanding the workings of it all.

At other levels it really is only money in and money out.

HaroldLloyd · 13/11/2014 20:53

Wonder what Peter Andre got for the Iceland ad?

45 quid and a free prawn ring?

Money attracts money, tis the way of the world. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and Peter Andre gets oranger.

CariadsDarling · 13/11/2014 20:55

Southeastdweller - yes she has people helping her but I would put money on them knowing the ins and outs of everything because only a really stupid businessman or woman would leave it all to others.

ssd · 13/11/2014 20:59

I was one of many who reported the get back to your council house post and thats why its been deleted

AliceLidl · 13/11/2014 21:13

ssd I like to be clear about what I am talking about, especially when the thread is as long as this one, and it saves scrolling back.

It makes it very clear which bits of the post I am talking about to reply to it point by point and include the words the OP actually said, rather than what she says she said or what she says she meant but didn't say.

I'd reply the same way about anything or anyone if I felt it helped to clarify the point I was making, I'm not sure why it would make a difference if the OP had been talking about Katie Price or Kerry Katona rather than the Beckhams.

I don't see that as snide, not sure what you mean by unneedy?

I'm not sure what your last comment is meant to imply? If you think I'm making a personal attack on the OP rather than simply responding to her reply to me, please report my posts. Otherwise, yes I would reply to anybody in this way if I thought it made clear what bit of their posts I was talking about and responding to.

OP I think everyone here would be responding in a different way to a verbal conversation, yourself included, but this is different. People can go back and look at what's been written and reply to it in greater detail, and quote it accurately because it's written down and there to be seen. It just makes it easier to bring the bits you are replying to into the current post for clarity rather than ask people to scroll back and forth.

Mintyy · 13/11/2014 21:16

Alice
How about you say why you think its great that a child (from an extremely wealthy family who do not need the money) should earn £45,000 for a days "work".

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Pollyteacakes · 13/11/2014 21:20

Alice I have responded in kind. You and some other posters have said I was making a personal attack on the Beckhams. No I wasn't and in the real world no one would have thought so.....but this is Mumsnet and everyone seemed ready for a good old bun fight. The thing that really gets me is how some people are so ready to shoot you down then think they know what you are really implying.
If people think I was personally attacking the Beckhams, fine, let them think that. I haven't lied and denied anything. If the Beckhams came into the firing line in my posts what is the big deal, so what? You seem to be sticking on this one point so.....
The Beckhams IMO are the epithomy of greed, and to me are the perfect example of what is wrong with the world. If anyone doesn't think they're greedy for money then they're deluded.

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AliceLidl · 13/11/2014 21:23

I don't believe I did say I thought it was great Mintyy.

CariadsDarling · 13/11/2014 21:24

So Polly, when would you stop wanting more?

And this by the way is a genuine question because I really did lose the plot of this thread a long time ago.

When would you stop wanting more for your family?

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Pollyteacakes · 13/11/2014 21:30

Hard to answer that Carriadsdarling. The Beckhams have about £165 million. I don't think they're going to be skint anytime soon.

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CariadsDarling · 13/11/2014 21:35

But thats not the point.

The point is that there will always be people who are better off and worse of than 'you' and some people who are worse off than you might just think that you striving to have, or having more than them, even if its 10 pound a week makes you just as bad as you seem to think the Beckhams are.

Southeastdweller · 13/11/2014 21:46

According to the most recent Sunday Times Rich List, they're worth £210 million, up £10 million from last year.

Catsarebastards · 13/11/2014 21:49

OP are you saying you think the beckhams should stop working now? At what point do you think they should have stopped? What is the figure you think crosses over into just working for greed?

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Pollyteacakes · 13/11/2014 21:50

Yes there always will be people better or worse off than you but we are talking £165 million here. Lots of people take early retirement, it doesn't give them more money, they get less, but they get quality of life they want. So yes you can draw
the line at how much you need to be happy. When you have multi millions (as the Beckhams and many others do) but you still want more it's got to be down to greed, nothing more.
It isn't opinion but fact that the worlds financial downfall is because of the rich getting richer at the expense of the poor getting poorer, and that is pure greed.

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CariadsDarling · 13/11/2014 21:52

Polly, its late where I am. In fact its almost time to get up and start the day - hell mend me for an afternoon nap that went on too long. If you come back to the thread Im not ignoring you, Im just going to try and get back to sleep.

Good night :)

slithytove · 13/11/2014 21:57

So where is the arbitrary cut off?

They have £200m, say we agree that's too much.

Should they close their companies? Or just donate all profits to charity? How do you know they don't?

Or can they keep making money, and keep many many people in employment by doing so, not just from hiring them directly but by spending the money they have. Again, they pay tax in this country don't they?

Surely if every wealthy person in British who reached the 'wealth cutoff' stopped working and earning because they don't need any more, then the tax income would suffer?

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Pollyteacakes · 13/11/2014 21:59

Goodnight Carriad

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Pollyteacakes · 13/11/2014 22:05

Their main wealth has nothing to do with the people they employ(most of who are paid NMW btw. Most of their wealth comes from their endorsements.
Are we now to justify the people who have amassed fortunes(at the expense of the low paid) with the taxes they put into the kitty.

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Mintyy · 13/11/2014 22:06

Catsarebastards - you seem to have missed the point that this is a thread about their son "working" for £45,000 for a day. It is not about the adults and their earnings. It is about their son who is a child being exploited (broadest sense) for the maximum amount of money.

slithytove · 13/11/2014 22:12

Yes polly, that's why I said "not just from hiring them directly".

Do you read posts before replying?

How is a model taking their clothes off for a photo at "the expense of the low paid"?

PunkrockerGirl · 13/11/2014 22:12

OP tell me about the Beckham's. You obviously know them and are privy to their financial situation, business affairs, charitable giving and family values.

Or, withdraw gracefully from this thread and stop yourself sounding like a complete arse.

RabbitOfNegativeEuphoria · 13/11/2014 22:13

OP I call running a multi million pound business hard work because it is. You clearly couldn't do it. Most people couldn't do it. I'm sure VB surrounds herself with good people but that in itself is hard work. As I've said several times, countless celebrities have started vanity business ventures (many of them in fashion). Most have failed. Very few have had the success VB has had. That takes hard work.

Carriemac · 13/11/2014 22:14

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