If your dad is Bill Gates, you’re probably not getting a Starbucks gift card for graduating college.
In 2018, Jennifer Gates walked off the Stanford stage and onto a 124-acre, $15.82 million horse farm in North Salem, New York. According to Architectural Digest, the lavish estate was a graduation gift from her billionaire parents—and came complete with rolling pastures, three parcels of land, and proximity to New York City for her future studies.
But in case that sounds too much like the plot of “Succession: Equestrian Edition,” Melinda Gates would like to remind everyone: their kids were absolutely raised “middle class.”
This kind of wealth is obscene and disgusting. Anyone who has kids knows they’d rather have the box than the toy or spend time with you than a horse farm.
These billionares are just chasing somethjng they can never have. Peace of mind. Unless you give up buying shit and expanding your empire it just leads to bad places which is most likely why Melinda left him. He probably got twisted and bored and took a trip to Epstein island.
I would not be surprised if these super rich are doing shit like pdiddy that would shock the hell out of you.
Much like the soon to be german chancellor, who told an interviewer, that he is upper middle class. All that while being a former Blackrock manager and owning (and using regularily) a personal private jet. Thats some kind of chancellor material…
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Tbf, it is “merely” a private prop plane, not a jet (which would be significantly more expensive still). But yeah, not exactly middle class material…
Its middle class, how much do they need to spend on graduation? 1mil? Yeah, we’ll go 16mil and be the most middle class.
Well, okay, if that’s upper class then what size ranches do middle class people buy for their kids’ graduation?
You crazy LEGO is crazy expensive!
Mattel brand. Less cost on maintenance also.
She means she told them to hold their wallet around the blacks in the city, and that only feminine gays are acceptable.
only feminine gays are acceptable.
I’m out of the loop for this. Is this something middle class families believe?
probably confusing it with UPPER middle class people, which are nowhere near middle class.
Even then, is there anyone, apart from TV execs who only cast stereotypes, who think masculine gays aren’t acceptable?
So, Bill (after the divorce) buys the ranch as a gift, but the headline circles it back to a unsourced Melinda quote ON YAHOO FINANCE! This is another obfuscating hatchet job to whitewash billionaire behaviour by media owned by said billionaires. Please don’t engage. This is non-news. Down vote this to the sewer where it belongs.
What could a horse ranch cost? $10?
Ok.
They mean billionaire middleclass.
I think they actually do. $16 million is like weekend money for them, I’m guessing
They don’t even spend that money, as is all billionaire spending. They borrow against their assets and profit enough to pay back the loan so they literally don’t spend money by using that credit line to buy more assets. Gates, bezos, musk, etc. depending on their market situation they could literally take a piss and be 16 million dollars richer or poorer and it wouldn’t matter.
It’s insanely broken and dangerous. If money was gravity they’d be black holes, disrupting everything in the galaxy. Someday we’ll all be gone, and all that’s left will be one self-important machine counting all the money in the world until its circuits burn out. The heat death of capitalism.
All I got was a beer
This shows you how billionaires imagine middle class to be. They’re completely out of touch, as expected.
Never defend a billionaire, they would never defend you. Don’t defend them, idolize them, or trust them. Billionaires care about money and the power it provides, NOTHING ELSE. That’s the main prerequisite for becoming filthy rich, after all.
A graduation gift worth more than most people will earn over an entire career.
She’s that bored.
Ikr? Rich and power but still a weird horse girl
and gates has to reinvent his image with his “charity work” he still a ruthless businessman, and countries complained about his vaccine requirements as well.
At least he’s relatively philanthropic, Mush and Bezilbub don’t even try to make other peoples lives better.
