To be annoyed by the super rich flaunting their wealth whilst normal people struggle

[Mrskeats]

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/10/tamara-ecclestone-10k-playhouse-super-rich-uk-destitution
Some people have no shame

ha ha but op YOU are the one reading those articles,dont you get it

I wonder if the carpenter who made it - is also a billionaire, all the people she employs, the cleaners, hair dressers, dressers, chauffers.

The key thing is we don't publish show off articles about it do we?

The fault for that lies with the morons who read celebrity gossip.

If people are willing to pay for that content, then someone will provide them with it.

It's not a dig at the poor
I doubt very much she knows there are poor people

Some people have more money than sense, but yes, better that they spend it in this country than salt it away in off-shore funds.

No I haven't said it has never been there

But just because it's always been that way doesn't make it right

That there are people in our society that can spend that much on basically a toy and others can't pay their rent yes something is wrong

And that this is celebrated is also wrong

We can all shrug our shoulders and say well that just the way it is or we can work towards a society that has less extreme wealth and fewer people living in poverty

ah so everyone who works for her is super rich too!

I can imagine being a billionaire and lusting after doing other womens pedicures

Saying "it's all relative" is one of my least favourite responses to complaints about inequality.

Of course it's all relative. Why should that mean we dismiss inequality and all the related issues instead of fighting for better lives for people who are struggling?

Her self-promotion is indeed crass. Other than that, YABU - as has been already covered you're holding a winning lottery ticket by just having been born in the UK.

We will never have a society where there are not rich people and poor people. The best we can do is to lessen the gap for a while through social engineering, but we are in a horrible bit of the cycle right now where people in one of the richest countries in the world are going hungry and too much of what we see in the media is this sort of bollocks. (Or Benefits Street type programming.)

TBH I am not annoyed, I just tune all the rich celeb stuff out and get on with my work, family, house repairs etc. I don't want London to disappear, I don't want food bank use to skyrocket, I don't want people to be unable to get a decent education or health care, but I am powerless to fix it alone or in a group (it seems) - so the only thing to do is to not give it brain space or devote any time to it.

YABU

Some people will always have more money than others. People care and are interested in what people spend their money on, thus their is a demand for these sort of articles. It is usually not the rich and famous that give a fuck about what some other rich and famous child has. It's the average Joe.

Thanks La
That's partly what I'm getting at

Of course it's all relative. Why should that mean we dismiss inequality and all the related issues instead of fighting for better lives for people who are struggling?

Because by your reasoning the poor of the UK should be willing to send money to the poor of India. I gather TE already gives to charity; do you expect her to give all her money away?

also very few landlords are taken to court over slum housing actually. many councils do everything they can to even admit housing is sub standard.

I hate it when people are nasty about money.

I dont know who the woman is in the article.

I ve had backlash from family on what i spend my money on.

I come from a family who rely on benefits. Everyone i know family wise claims some sort of benefit (not including child benefit) and they really piss me off with their comments about what i spend money on.

It has nothing to do with them and i ve now started getting shirty with them whenever they snipe at me and the comments have started to become less and less.

Its irrelevent what other peoples circumstances are, its her money and her circumstances allow her to spend that money. Whether there are people down the road from her struggling is irrelevent to her situation. Its not her fault and nor does it entitle anyone to demand she gives her money to those less fortunate.

Money brings out the worst in people, i hate talking about it in real life.

I doubt very much she knows there are poor people

What a ridiculous comment.

The super rich quite happily spend money in this country AND salt it away - it isn't an either or. Note that they are not happy to contribute like everyone else does by PAYING THEIR TAXES.

Totally agree EnthusiasmDisturbed.

elitedaily.com/entertainment/celebrity/ecclestone-how/

This is entertaining

Who is this person and why is she so rich?

There's a really good treatise by Jean Jacques Rousseau about the origins of inequality.

Inequality in and of itself is not a bad thing (what, and me a socialist). What is wrong is

1. the size of the gap
2. the methods by which that inequality was obtained
3. the methods used to maintain the status quo

Should TE have this money in the first place? Why not. As long as she can prove that it has not been created by the subjugation of other people, by historic injustices and it is not maintained by the robbing of the rest of society using tax havens and evasion / avoidance tactics not open to the majority. If she is happy that is the case (and good luck with that) she can have every one of her shits immortalised in gold leaf for posterity as far as I am concerned.

TE could have paid for ten smaller houses to be distributed to children's hospitals and imo this would have had the dual effect of raising her media profile [publicity obviously being the oxygen she breathes] and also portraying her as a good sort and offering the approval of her adoring public

its odd being in a position of defending TE but she does do charity work and I saw her doing one stint for GO street where she went into Hamleys and pretty much brought everything in site for it.

Both the sisters have strange lives, TE ex was a con artist looser, PE has just had her house petrol bombed and her DH is bizzare like a Batman villian. Both their partners seem deeply dodgy with dubious business practices.

I hate the phrase 'it's all relative'. It's crap. Popping out and spending £3 on soup would not seem excessive even to the very poor. Spending 10k on a playhouse is extremely excessive, to everyone other than rich people. Plenty of the super rich choose to give away most of their money and live quite normally, so some of them get it.

AppleSetsSail - caring about inequality and working to reduce it does not automatically mean the poor of the UK giving their money to the poor of India as I'm sure you are well aware. What a ridiculous comment. Nor does it mean giving money to charity.

Would you like some suggestions for handy things YOU could do?

• pay your taxes (the UK tax system is designed to reduce inequality and promote equity www.economicsonline.co.uk/Managing_the_economy/Policies_to_reduce_inequality_and_poverty.html)
• don't avoid paying taxes (accountant's schemes, buying your house through an off-shore company etc. etc.)

It isn't difficult.

I don't think most of the super wealthy do flaunt their wealth. However, there are a subset who like to maintain a 'celebrity' status either for fun or as a source of funds to keep themselves wealthy. But I think it is better they spend it rather than sit on it. It would be better if they spent it like Bill and Melinda Gates do with their trust though.

Thanks inspace
Also see recent articles by her father re women in formula one