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Zero sympathy for people who had £10 million worth of jewellery stolen

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TwoCreamEggs · 31/12/2024 13:48

People are struggling to heat their homes, feed their kids and pay their rent - whilst this 'millionaire influencer' has £10 million worth of jewellery stashed in a safe at home - I find this morally abhorrent and have zero sympathy. They have so little insight and social conscience that they feel it appropriate to flash jewellery and other signs of huge wealth all over social media. I'm glad no-one was injured obviously but hope the stolen jewellery is used to re-distribute some of their enormous wealth.

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Privacynotguaranteed · 31/12/2024 16:46

RisingSunn · 31/12/2024 16:20

Wait..so the use of child labour is acceptable when creating a smartphone - because they are available to the masses.

But child labour becomes unethical when used for products aimed at the rich.

It just doesn’t make sense.

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I never mentioned smart phones, I was responding to another poster. I wish they didn't exist personally, they have ruined the human race imo, walk down any street, all you see are zombies with hunched necks.
Mine is permanently on silent unless i need it on for work. Hate the bloody things and would rejoice if they were to disappear forever.

ineedtowomanup · 31/12/2024 16:46

How did this person make their money?

Willoo · 31/12/2024 16:47

It amazes me that rich people get little sympathy just because they have money. It smacks of jealousy. I’m not rich because I’m too lazy to be. I never begrudge anyone who is though

milveycrohn · 31/12/2024 16:48

Well, if it was in the safe, the owner was not (at that time) flashing it about.
If the owner is a 'social influencer', I certainly do or did not pay for it. I think it's a bit of an odd way to earn money but it does not really affect me.
You can't eat jewelry, and frankly, I vary rarely wear any. I really dislike lots of ostentatious gems, etc (yes, even that owned by Royalty - leaves me cold).
I dislike ALL scumbags who think they can have what someone else owns, whether it is expensive jewelry or something mundane.
My MIL was once burgled. It is a deeply traumatic thing to happen to anyone. In her case, the expensive itmes she had hidden away. But little things given to her when she was a teacher, by the kids, was really upsetting for her to lose.

poodledoodles · 31/12/2024 16:49

Yes, it's pretty common for thieves who rob houses to sell the proceeds illegally and then donate that money to homeless shelters and other disadvantaged people. Ask anyone in prison for armed robbery and they'll tell you they were only trying to "redistribute wealth". 🙄

WilfredsPies · 31/12/2024 16:49

Katbum · 31/12/2024 16:17

I thought the documentary was ridiculous, a waste of taxpayer money and I didn't feel at all sorry for her. I don't care what happens to over privileged Tamara Ecclestone. I am not her friend or family. I think it is obscene we live in a society where she can live in a fifty room mansion surrounded by oppulence and my mentally ill relative is left to die in the cold and rain because the council are too broken to house him. I have spent today ringing and writing to the council because after multiple upheld complaints, failed safeguarding reports and many weeks over the mandatory time, my relative remains sleeping in the cold, too ill and dangerous to be housed by family. I don't expect Tamara's sympathy for my family's misfortune and I certainly won't get public sympathy or social change given the pathetic 'the rich are people too' responses on here. The fact that you are so willing to bleed at the heart for a billionaire who will have their wealth replaced by insurance and really has suffered nothing in life is very telling about how the world is in the state it is.

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I have sympathy for your situation and I can’t begin to imagine how worried you must be for your family member. It’s a dreadful situation to be in and I hope to God something comes through for you soon.

The fact that you cannot express sympathy for anyone unless they are worse off than you, is not a positive thing.

LlynTegid · 31/12/2024 16:50

I still condemn burglary and hope the burglars are caught and face justice, even though the impact on those burgled will not be lack of food or inability to pay basic bills.

Hollietree · 31/12/2024 16:52

lover99 · 31/12/2024 16:29

my bike was free

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Ok when I organise for your home to be burgled tonight, I’ll be sure to tell them to leave your free bike. We’ll just steal everything else in your home that I consider non essential. I’ll just leave you a sack cloth and a pair of sandals. I’ll redistribute everything you worked hard for to those less fortunate than you. That ok?

XWKD · 31/12/2024 16:52

If showing off her jewellery leads to clicks and ad revenue, what's wrong with that? I would never watch one of her videos because I don't care about her or her possessions. She's not taking money from the poor.

milveycrohn · 31/12/2024 16:55

Interesting comments about Taylor Swift, which I guess applies to any other pop star.
She certainly has not earned any money from me, as I have not been to any of her concerts of paid for any of her music.
She is American?, and presumably pays her taxes in the us.

Youngheartsalittletogetherness · 31/12/2024 16:56

The burglar who came into 10 million pounds worth of loot better be connected to higher up gangsters or he may well be relieved of his ill gotten gains known as being taxed and if that happens to him.. who's he going to tell.
Nobody deserves to be burgled

OnlyDespairRemains · 31/12/2024 17:02

AvidBee · 31/12/2024 16:41

35% of £100,000 is £35,000

35% of £1,000,000 is £350,000

That is a huge amount more

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And the person on £100,000 now has £65,000 while the person on £1,000,000 has £650,000.

That is a huge amount more.....

Ayechinnyreckon · 31/12/2024 17:03

It won't be used to redistribute wealth. It'll be used in trafficking of humans and drugs, further subjugating the already disempowered and poor underclass.

silentassassin · 31/12/2024 17:09

Good grief, this is one of the most naive things I've ever read 😂

I've worked in forensic units and that money will go on drugs and further criminal acts which will damage further people in the process. Dont assume that just because noone was hurt in this particular robbery that they wont be hurt in the next one, or the next one after that.

Moreover, people who commit such crimes have the exact same attitude as you, OP, "it's not my fault, they have more than me so fck them, I'm just going to take it by force". If you want to live in a world where that is the prevailing attitude then God help you, because one day someone will feel that way about you....

ScarletWitchM · 31/12/2024 17:15

Do you think she was robbed by Robin Hood and his Merry Men? Regardless of her flashing it about - everyone should be able to have and wear what they want without people thinking they can steal it, or actually stealing it.
if you have a better car than your neighbour and drive it around all day should that be fair game?

Catsnap · 31/12/2024 17:16

It’s a fact that people are happier in countries with less wealth inequality.
It’s interesting that those on here who don’t have any sympathy are being accused of jealousy. Maybe it’s genuinely not the desired lifestyle of everyone and there is a point at which it’s possible to feel wealthy enough.

dottiehens · 31/12/2024 17:22

Only in the UK and mumsnet. Are people this deluded elsewhere? 😆

6thNight · 31/12/2024 17:24

Ladamesansmerci · 31/12/2024 16:05

Because in the UK, the bottom 50% of people own less than 5% of the wealth. That is an obscene statistic. The richest 1% of the world owns nearly 50% of the worlds assets. If everyone lived comfortably across the world, this wouldn't need justifying. But they don't.

Billionaires exploit tax loop holes, and pay low wages, to maximise their own wealth at the expense of public interest. It literally does make us poorer. Billionaires are taxed at competitively low rates compared to average worker, who pay more to compensate. More tax on then would save trillions.

Billionaires also contribute significantly more to carbon emissions and global warming.

If you truly don't think it's wrong that an elite few own the vast majority of wealth is immoral idk what else to say.

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Your claim is just a semantics trick. There is no such thing as 'the wealth', as that changes second by second. If you bake a cake and put a for sale sign next to it, you have just created/added wealth.

In other words, there is no pie that is somehow unevenly split. Every person's wealth and assets is independent from everyone else's.

ETA: And the claim about taxes is just ridiculous. The top percentiles pay almost all of the taxes.

Katbum · 31/12/2024 17:28

WilfredsPies · 31/12/2024 16:49

I have sympathy for your situation and I can’t begin to imagine how worried you must be for your family member. It’s a dreadful situation to be in and I hope to God something comes through for you soon.

The fact that you cannot express sympathy for anyone unless they are worse off than you, is not a positive thing.

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There is a difference between 'worse off than me' and 'billionairess' whose hardship is loss of material objects. But thank you for your thoughts.

Namechangefordaughterevasion · 31/12/2024 17:40

I just don't understand how this happens. I don't have anything like that amount of jewellery but the listed items on my household insurance (2 rings, a pair of diamond earrings and a diamond pendant) have an insurance value of £50,0000. A pittance to this lady but a fortune to me and representing many years of hard work and effort from DH and I.

Our insurance company has made it very clear that they will not insure any other high ticket items unless we have a safe fitted and even now , any items stolen from our house not secured in a safe place under lock and key will not be covered by our insurance. Nor are we covered if we don't have good quality locks fitted and the intruder alarm activated.

If someone as relatively 'normally' well off has been made aware of the precautions needed to keep things safe and covered how come this woman didn't have stringent security in place? Unless it was an inside job.

Stirabout · 31/12/2024 17:42

If social media is upsetting don’t look at it.

We live in a capitalist society. There’s always going to be someone that has more and someone that has less than all of us.
Stealing from one that has more isn’t going to solve anything.
A crime has been committed and I hope the culprit is caught.

LiquoriceAllsorts2 · 31/12/2024 17:46

lover99 · 31/12/2024 16:29

my bike was free

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wrll It cost something to make initially so presumably it was paid for and worth something initially. If someone hadn’t bought it then it wouldn’t have been available for you to get for free later.

binkie163 · 31/12/2024 17:47

Kim Kardashian was robbed of similar amount by showing it off on sm and the hotel she was staying in, then surprised armed robbers turned up at the door. The insurance were not keen to pay up as she had basically advertised the items & being all alone with no security. Footballers telling everyone on sm they are off on holiday and their house is empty for a month leaving expensive cars & valuables. People need to stop putting everything on sm not everyone is a friend. It also means everyones insurance goes up, insurance companies do not like losing large sums.

user243245346 · 31/12/2024 17:48

I don't have "zero" sympathy, it's horrible to have your home invaded. It's not my no.1 concern though

BonneMaman77 · 31/12/2024 17:52

Agree, insane wealth in the hands of a few.
I don’t understand the lack of empathy however. A homeless person could say the same about you who has a roof over your
head. Is it the fact they are wealthy or they flaunt it on SM?

When you say “showing off” on SM, you mean this stolen jewellery or do you mean the news that reported the value of stolen jewellery. Do you follow this person, do they do something of interest (e.g. a sports personality?).

SM is like when you go into someone’s home spend time there and have hatred about it but can’t bring yourself to leave:a sickness. Get off SM if it is destroying the empathy you would normally have as a human being.