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

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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.

Let’s storm Buckingham Palace then

People talking about security, there would have been staff there. This would have been preplanned & professional.

Who was it ?

This is a crime. This won’t be their first offence and I doubt it will be their last

You don’t have to waft your expensive items on SM to get them stolen

Maybe you will be a victim of crime. These criminals have to start somewhere

Criminals don’t have to take much to put you in a position where it costs you money

I would love to!! Cannot understand why they are so fucking revered when they have such disgusting wealth and the law doesn’t apply to them! God forbid UHNW pay inheritance tax!

You are an absolute idiot.

I'm with you, OP. Eat the rich. This isn't someone who's worked their way up to earn a high salary of 100k a year. It's a multimillionaire sitting on millions of pounds of jewellery.

I think the point OP is really making, is that this vast disparity in wealth should not exist. No one disputes that some people should earn more than others, to match their level of training/experience/job difficulty, but there should not be people with enough excess income to buy 10 million pounds of jewellery. That is obscene. It's not jealousy to point out that it is absolutely immoral that some people can do that, whilst others are using food banks.

Relative poverty is a political choice. Income inequality is a political choice. Cost of living continues to increase for normal people, whilst electricity companies are sitting on trillions of profit. It's wrong.

Of course, if you become PM you can get someone else to pay for your tickets and hospitality at the football. That’s true socialism…🤣🤣

But I agree, If people stopped following social media ‘influencers’ and stopped watching football then the teams, the players and the influencers would lose their monetary value. As long as people watch, stream, buy the product then it’ll have a value. And as the Soviet Union showed, if you try and exert too much control over the means of production and demand for the output everyone ends up massively worse off.

We have a friend who has millions of items stolen. They are a successful, high profile person (not an influencer!), and we able to buy (and be given) some high worth items by being at the top of their game. It was very traumatic for them and their family to have someone break into their house and steal items from it. Just because they are relatively wealthy doesn't mean they didn't deserve to have these things.

@Cattyisbatty yes I have been burgled three times over the years.
Interesting comments from a lot of people - I read them all and thanks to everyone who disagreed and the few who see my point.
@Waterweight it is all over the media - figure is quoted as from £10 million up to around £22million.
@Ladamesansmerci thanks - you put it much more eloquently than me!
To have that much money tied up in jewellery in a safe - that sort of unimaginable wealth whilst many are homeless and kids are bought Christmas presents by charities (they had a collection in my local Tesco) more and more people are using food banks is, to me, a sign that there is something very wrong with our society. This is compounded in this case by the use of social media to show off this level of wealth. Just rotten to the core.

Would love to. The Royal family sit on buckets of wealth. They are a reminder of the disgusting class hierarchy we still live in.

Has it occurred to you OP that people that wealthy will be paying a very high level of income tax (and VAT) which is going some way to redistribution of wealth ...

Calm down Robin Hood

I feel sorry for anyone who's been burgled and lost items, some of which may have sentimental value

And how do you know they don't donate to charity too?

Someone who has worked hard and earns a good salary e.g. 80k does not deserve to have their car wrecked and things stolen etc, of course. People arc missing the point. The point is the income gap should not be so vast that some people can't afford food whilst others have 10 million pounds worth of jewellery. It is wrong.

People like the OP are those that voted for Starmer aka idiots.

What a stupid thing to say

A bike is an essential item. How else would I get to work?

You’ve got a bike, have you? I hope you’re not showing off by riding it down the street? And an essential item? 😂 Do what the rest of us have to do and bloody walk! If it’s two hours each way, wake up earlier. I’d quite like a bike. Cmon, send me your address. Don’t be greedy, it’s a deadly sin after all.

YABU. No matter how much money someone has a robbery is frightening and hopefully the perpetrators will be caught. You sound jealous and nasty.

I lean to the left politically but disagree it is morally abhorrent for people to have nice things relative to their income. You sound a lot like my miserable cow of a mother who thinks no one should have anything if she hasn’t got it/can’t have it. Where do you draw the line? Is it sickening that I paid my electricity bill this morning then spent £50 on party food in M&S- or is that ok because it’s within more peoples’ means?

You really should elaborate - the Crown jewels - just the crown jewels - are thought to be worth up to £5 BILLION in value. Are we advocating depriving the royal family of their wealth. "Influencers" may do very little to earn their wealth. The Royal family have done nothing to earn theirs.

These people who were robbed have probably worked hard their whole lives. They have managed their finances and earned comfortable lives. No one has the right to steal their belongings. For all you know they probably already do charitable donations.

Chairman Mao has joined the chat…

10 million now with crooks, and insurance companies paying out 10-22 million to the victim of crime.

Your thoughts are flawed

I mean I doubt jewellery worth that much is remotely ethical. So given child labour was likely involved somewhere along the line I'm going to say YANBU.