https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-newest-status-symbol-for-high-net-worth-homeowners-trophy-trees-11619109066
Whenever I see these homes I immediately stress out about what a nightmare they would be to clean. How are you even supposed to clean the gunk out of those grooves under the couches?
The answer is that you don't, your underpaid laborers do (when you're out of the house so you don't have to look them in the face or acknowledge their existence)
Love having the pool room from Blade Runner 2049 that symbolized the unfairness of excess wealth, but make it so that it is designed to trip you face-first into a table.
Feels like we're just accelerating to the point wherein the bourgeois are becoming god emperors. Or we there yet? idk
I'm pretty sure billionaires do this stuff too, but they own the media outlets so people don't write about them.
The guillotine is too good for these people.
I've heard the only way to kill evil powerful vampires is to drive a stake through their hearts.
This is also a great way to kill an old tree.
Tree spades, or really any practical method of uprooting a large, established tree, is super disruptive
I imagine there are people who specialize in transplanting massive trees (for some reason), but I bet there are 100 dumbass grifters for every one of those.
Not much of a silver lining, but it’s all I’ve got
