#super rich

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akaso eiji gifs (from some shows he's been in) but it goes from cute to spicy

#akaso eiji #turn to me mukai kun #pending train #super rich

[probablyasocialecologist]

From 2019 to 2021, the global number of ultra-high net worth individuals, those worth more than $50m (£41m), grew from 174,800 to 264,000. According to Gerber, people in that wealth bracket, despite being financially buttressed against countless difficulties, are three to five times more likely to suffer from a mental illness or substance abuse problem than the average. Given that Paracelsus only accepts 30 to 40 clients a year, the pool is clearly large enough to keep the clinic busy.

Ultra-exclusive mental health treatment is one of many new micro-industries that have sprung up to serve the super-rich. The Spears 500, an annual index of advisory services, now recommends experts on everything from vineyard acquisition to crypto reputation management. Dr Ronit Lami, a Los Angeles and London-based “ultra-high-net-worth psychologist”, told me that when she started working in 2000, nobody knew much about the field. Now her clients want specialised professionals who understand the specific intricacies of succession planning and generational wealth transfer. Their desire is like many of their other desires, for a service that comes in a bespoke, exclusive form, a private jet rather than a commercial airline.

Former Kusnacht employees have now exported the single-client-rehab idea around the world, setting up similar clinics in Mallorca (The Balance), Ireland (Rosglas) and another in Zurich (Calda). The first luxury single-client centre in London, Addcounsel, was opened by a businessman named Paul Flynn who sold his recruitment company and started the clinic in 2016 after a friend who worked at the Kusnacht suggested the idea. Flynn told me that the business grew by 300% last year, and expects similar growth in 2023. The misery of the super-rich is a market like any other, and there’s a gap. In the coming years, he said, “I think you’ll see a lot of mergers and acquisitions activity in this space.”

#mental health #super rich #billionaires #for the sake of their health we must expropriate the rich

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[eaglesnick]

“When the rich rob the poor it is called business” Mark Twain

As if we didn’t know already, the very wealthy expect the rest of us to literally work ourselves into an early grave so they can become richer still.  Millionaire Rishi Sunak’s father-in-law, billionaire NR Narayana Murthy is a case in point:

“We need to be disciplined and improve our work productivity. I think unless we do that, what can poor government do? And every government is as good as the culture of the people. And our culture has to change to that of highly determined, extremely disciplined and extremely hard-working people.”

Poor government indeed!  Crumbling national infrastructure and collapsing public survives are the fault of lazy working families. If only we would get up off our backsides and put in the 70 hour week Mr Murthy suggests then all would be well.

The arrogance of the super-rich knows no bounds.  Working people are already putting in more hours than ever before. People Management had this headline at the beginning of the year:

“More than four million UK workers considering a second job to combat cost of living, survey finds."  (09/01/23)

Even during the pandemic, when you would have expected people to be working less hours, that wasn’t necessarily the case. Forbes, the American financial and business magazine had this to say:

“We Worked Longer Hours During The Pandemic—Research Says We Need To Work Smarter, Not Harder… The extra hours worked during the pandemic would be less of a concern if they were just a temporary phenomenon, a blip on the screen. However, overwork is a longstanding problem."  (Forbes:18/08/21)

The move to working from home since the pandemic has also led to an increase in hours and workload.

“Employees who work from home are spending longer at their desks and facing a bigger workload than before the Covid pandemic hit." (Guardian: 04.02/21)

And we have this from the BBC:

“Overwork culture is thriving; we think of long hours and constant exhaustion as a marker of success….New studies show that workers around the world are putting in  an average of 9.2 hours of unpaid overtime per week – up from 7.3 hours just a year ago.” (BBC:Worklife: 10/04/21)

More recently we had this headline:

“In the current economic climate, Gen Zers are pulling especially long hours – and pushing themselves to the brink of burnout…18-24 (year olds) tend to put in an extra eight hours and 30 minutes of ‘free’ work per week by starting early, staying late or working during breaks and lunchtimes.” (BBC: Worklife: 29/05/23)

So Mr Murthy, people are not sitting on their backsides. They are working harder than ever, often for “free”. What’s more, many have two jobs because you and your rich friends refuse to give them a living wage, because you are more interested in accruing even more billions than you are in seeing working families being paid a living wage.

Rather than lazy workers, it is the greed of the rich and super-rich that has led to the collapse of public services and infrastructure. The system is rigged in their favour, designed for them to escape paying their fair share of taxes. As I quoted in my last blog,  “Tax evasion, and, more broadly, tax avoidance, is not inevitable; it is the result of policy choices” and while we have people like Mr Murthy’s son-in-law in charge of government, nothing will ever change.

#uk politics #rishi sunak #Narayana Murthy #super rich #living wage #blame game #overwork #billionaires #tax avoidance #tax evasion #working families

[dikleyt]

The main thing about Kanye's antisemitism is that he's worth more than all the Jews I know personally put together. So of course he wants people to stop blaming the super-rich and start blaming Jews.

#kanye west #kanye #antisemitism #super rich

[radiodread]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KEITA MACHIDA (july 4th) 🎉

#machida keita #jdrama #jdramaedit #jdramasource #usercm #alice in borderland #imawa no kuni no alice #cherry magic #nishiogikubo mitsuboshi youshudou #three star bar in nishiogikubo #super rich #町田啓太 #gif:jdrama

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Super Rich Kids - Frank Ocean, Earl Sweatshirt

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⌕ 𝐴𝑘𝑎𝑠𝑜 𝐸𝑖𝑗𝑖 𝑖𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠.

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[wiit889]

White Ferrari, White S Class, and White Range Rover

#luxury cars #rich #exotic cars #exotic car #super rich

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A Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Coupé Sells for $142 Million  

Mercedes-Benz confirmed on Thursday that it recently sold the world's most expensive car. A very rare 1955 Mercedes-Benz SLR coupe that had been kept in the German automaker's collection was sold to a private owner for €135 million, the equivalent of $142 million. That price makes it the most expensive car known to ever have been sold, according to Hagerty, a company that tracks collector car values.

Money from the sale will be used to establish the Mercedes-Benz Fund, a global scholarship fund, Mercedes said in an announcement.

The previous record sale price for a car was reportedly $70 million paid in 2018 for a 1963 Ferrari 250 GTO.

The Mercedes that was sold was one of only two 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupe prototypes. The 67-year-old cars were named for Mercedes' chief engineer at the time, Rudolf Uhlenhaut, and are claimed to have a top speed of 186 mph It was sold at a closed invitation-only auction at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart on May 5. The auction was held in cooperation with auto auction company RM Sotheby's.

The other Uhlenhaut Coupe will remain in the Museum's collection, according to a Mercedes-Benz statement.

"Their racing cars from the 1930s and 1950s are rare, and most are still owned by the factory, so any that come to market are highly sought after," said Brian Rabold, vice president for automotive intelligence at Hagerty.

Mercedes' "Gullwing" SLRs -- so-called because of the doors that rise up like curved wings -- are considered to be among the world's most desirable cars. And various rare and racing versions are especially valuable.

The SLR Uhlenhaut Coupe was, essentially, a hard-top version of Mercedes' famous open-topped SLR racing car, powered by a 300 horsepower eight-cylinder engine. The thinking was that a closed car would better protect drivers from wind and weather at high speeds, while the closed roof would also improve aerodynamics.

Shortly after the development of these cars, Mercedes stopped its involvement in motorsports, so the cars were never used in competition.

While the identity of the car's new owners remains unknown, British classic car dealer Simon Kidston claimed in a press release to have placed the winning bid on behalf of a customer.

By Peter Valdes-Dapena.

#A Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Coupé Sells for $142 Million #the world's most expensive car #mb #car #luxury #luxury car #luxury goods #luxury living #luxury lifestyle #billionaire #billionaire living #billionaire lifestyle #sports car #german #german cars #Mercedes 'Gullwing' SLR #rich #super rich #$$$

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SUPER RICH (2021)

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[sagastargirlie]

Super rich kids with nothing but fake friends..

#gossip girl #makeup #nyc #scandinavian style #super rich #richkids #nyc aesthetic #nyc style #stargirl #chanel #cartier #black and white #gold #young

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wish i was super rich like old money rich i just want to fund a whole lot of research i think it would be fun

#tumblr #text post #dear diary #rich #super rich #old money #research #research fund #science side of tumblr

[eaglesnick]

101 Things You Should Know About the UK Tory Government

Thing 17

During Covid, Rishi Sunak lost billions of pounds of taxpayer’s money. It is estimated that £17 billion was lost in loans that will never be paid back, while almost £5 billion was lost to fraud. Further public funds were lost through the self-employed support scheme, 8.7% of furlough payments were given to fraudsters or made by mistake, in addition to 8.5% of payments to the Eat Out to Help Out scheme.

“But rather than respond with robust measures when the scale of the fraud was revealed, the Treasury said it expected its anti-fraud taskforce to write off the payments lost to fraud. Treasury minister Lord Agnew accused the Treasury of having “little interest in the consequences of fraud to our society” and of making “schoolboy errors” over the awarding of loans". (BylineTimes: 03.11.22)

More recently, Conservative Prime Minister Liz Truss cost the country an additional £50 billion.

“Rishi Sunak is preparing years of tax rises for Britain in an effort to make up for a £50bn fiscal hole left by Liz Truss’s disastrous tenure in Downing Street, according to a Treasury insider.” (Guardian 31/10/22)

Who will pay for this repeated Tory economic incompetence? Bankers? The wealthy? Corporations making record breaking profits? The super-rich?

None of the above. Yesterday, Jeremy Hunt, Sunak's Chancellor of the Exchequer, made it perfectly clear who is to pay for these Tory mistakes:

“Families up and down the country have to balance their accounts at home.”

No one should be surprised by this announcement. It is ALWAYS ordinary working families that have to pay for Tory mismanagement of the economy. Bankers can have unlimited bonuses under Sunak’s government, and energy producers are allowed to continue to make obscene profits, but public sector workers must accept compulsory pay restraint and ordinary working families must “balance their accounts". Quite how people are to balance their household accounts while taking a cut in real wages while the already rich are allowed to make even more money hasn’t yet been explained.

#uk politics #rishi sunak #liz truss #fraud #treasury #black holes #fiscal incompetence #jeremy hunt #working families #budgets #super rich #energy corporations #wealth #poverty

[triflingbits]

#super rich #economy #wealth distribution #free market