To be disgusted by brooklyn Beckham wedding

[Airfriedpotatowitch]

I know alot of it is probably exajerated by media but to splosh out that much on a completely ott wedding seems quite revolting to me when millions all over the world are dying and how that money could have been spent on helping starving dying children, housing homeless people and helping refugees fleeing from war torture disaster and god knows what. And while I'm having a moan flogging just 1 painting of the royal family could probably solve alot of problems and it makes me sick how they preach to everyone about everything whilst sitting on fortunes t they don't need want and probably don't even like or notice anymore. Anyway that's what I think.

It's their money that they can spend how they like. I don't care about them and I don't care how they spend their money. Do I think the rich and famous are out of touch with "normal" people? Yes. Do I care? No. Most of them are just over-paid, self-important twits.

@incognitoforthisone

But as we became aware from leaked e-mails, the motivation behind the charity work was to rewarded with some form of honour, preferably a knighthood if I recall.

Well, so what? That doesn't make the money any less useful to the charity, does it? It still does just as much as good as it would if he'd donated anonymously.

I totally agree. If all donations had to be altruistic then charity donations would plummet!

@Rocket1982

I’m not suggesting total equality but extreme inequality is totally unfair and is maintained by the elite who create global financial and political systems to serve themselves. Inequality is rising and rising and it is now way out of control. There needs to be more redistribution.

But the wedding money WAS redistributed. They spent it. It was spent.

That means many, many more people got some of that money. The caterers, the serving staff, the hairdressers, the dressmakers, the fabric weavers, the manufacturers, the car hire company and all their employees, all the hat shops and shoe shops and the guy who did the filming and his camera assistants and runners and etc etc...

All this talk of the 'elite' and all the other kneejerk SM memes. It is just lazy. Soma for the masses. Learn some basic economics instead if it isn't too challenging.

Money spent on extravagant wedding supports loads of businesses and creative people, some of whom may have had 0 income over Covid lockdowns.

@LovelyYellowLabrador

Didn’t Victoria Beckham fashion business, well ahem sham! Business that loses so much money it’s just a vanitity project Claim furlough benefits from then government then after it came out in public paid it back That tells you all you need to know !!

So what if it’s a vanity project! She’s interested in fashion, she can afford to do it and it employs people and pays taxes.

It was perfectly legitimate for them to claim furlough - businesses aren’t supposed to be propped up by their owners’ personal wealth. Two totally separate things.

The father of the bride probably paid, he can spend his money how he likes

In other news, rich people have lots of money and spend it frivolously.

I think it’s a waste of energy being disgusted at how rich celebs splash their cash about - I mean look at the kardashians, the royal family, all the celebs who have been married and divorced in about five minutes etc.

We have to put it into context, Pretz family are worth 1.2 billion pounds, a 3 million wedding is nothing for them.

Got a spare tenner in your account OP? Got some tins you've not used? Some time to volunteer?

Sent it to the Red Cross? Given them to the local foodbank? Volunteered?

No? So you're just like Beckham and his new family, it's all relative.

So what if it’s a vanity project! She’s interested in fashion, she can afford to do it and it employs people and pays taxes. It was perfectly legitimate for them to claim furlough - businesses aren’t supposed to be propped up by their owners’ personal wealth. Two totally separate things.

I think the point was.
It doesnt pay any taxes as it has never made a profit. It is only kept open as they loan it money. It is not a going concern.
To claim furlough money the business had to be. going concern after CV19- that was requirement. VBs business didnt meet that criteria

I'm not disgusted but I do think it's a terrible waste of money. But each to their own.

But yes I wish our age had an Andrew Carnegie

Well we have JKR and Bill Gates but yes, despite the fact that a lot of the 19th century wealth was built on slavery and more general exploiting people, like the navvies on the railways, some of them did give something back.

Not sure I subscribe to the trickle down theory and even if I did, they'd have trickled down even more if they'd both married poorer people and had two £3 million weddings. Why do rich people have to marry other rich people. Spread it around a bit!

I take greater umbrage at rich people flexing their wealth in ways that are environmentally unfriendly than splashing the cash on frivolities.

We all spend money that could be funneled into worthier places, but the truly wealthy like the Beckham's and Peltz's have the luxury of being able to spend money to not compromise on the impact they have on the planet unless the majority of others and crucially they are sustaining the lives of others by employing them. I imagine several hundred people financially benefited from an affair planned by that lot.

That being said, their wedding may have been an organic, locally sourced, zero plastic, carbon free affair...I haven't bothered to read about the wedding of two people who's only success was being born into wealth.

@CurlyBurley

I'm not disgusted but I do think it's a terrible waste of money. But each to their own.

I'm sure Denis Peltz has wasted £3m on worse.

Nelson Peltz, sorry

I just wonder why she didn’t spend some of that money on a hairdresser, her roots are terrible

It was perfectly legitimate for them to claim furlough - businesses aren’t supposed to be propped up by their owners’ personal wealth. Two totally separate things

That business has been propped up by its owners’ personal wealth since its inception. They don’t keep the two separate.

I get what you're saying but they will have paid a lot of businesses and people for the event to take place. Think cake makers, waiting staff, chefs etc. They possibly give a lot to charity already and are entitled to spend their £ in any way they see fit.

@MySecretHistory

So what if it’s a vanity project! She’s interested in fashion, she can afford to do it and it employs people and pays taxes. It was perfectly legitimate for them to claim furlough - businesses aren’t supposed to be propped up by their owners’ personal wealth. Two totally separate things.

I think the point was.
It doesnt pay any taxes as it has never made a profit. It is only kept open as they loan it money. It is not a going concern.
To claim furlough money the business had to be. going concern after CV19- that was requirement. VBs business didnt meet that criteria

Well explained my secret history Spot on !

@BlusteryLake

I sort of get where you're coming from, but both the Beckham and Peltz families donate huge sums to charity. I guess all rich families could donate more though.

How do you know how much rich families donate?

All the money they spent will be going to all the people who made the wedding possible - creating lots of job opportunities. It is not just keeping it in the bank earning interest.

Quite honestly it is their business how much they spend on their wedding. They are paying for it. It will employ lots of people. Nothing to do with anyone else. You should not be upset because no one is asking for you to pay for it.

[quote DoorWasAJar]**@Silverswirl* Oh wow, where do you get that, that hard work makes for wealth or success?! Did you miss the millions of people that are* working hard yet have to use benefits and food banks?![/quote]
I said handwork and luck. It’s a combination of the two. Luck being things such as parental privilege and support, general IQ / acedemic level, the level of social interpersonal skills you are born with (and develop through hard work), inheritance, the country you were born in, colour of skin, biological sex. These are all the luck factors plus many more.
Even if you have all these luck factors without hard working you can be poor. Even without any of these luck factors with hard work you can be rich
By no means am I saying that working hard will always make you rich.

@MySecretHistory

So what if it’s a vanity project! She’s interested in fashion, she can afford to do it and it employs people and pays taxes. It was perfectly legitimate for them to claim furlough - businesses aren’t supposed to be propped up by their owners’ personal wealth. Two totally separate things.

I think the point was.
It doesnt pay any taxes as it has never made a profit. It is only kept open as they loan it money. It is not a going concern.
To claim furlough money the business had to be. going concern after CV19- that was requirement. VBs business didnt meet that criteria

Fair enough. So if the business didn’t qualify, then they didn’t they claim furlough, so what was the problem?

Have I missed something? Was this wedding tax payer funded?