This is disgusting.
First of all, the house is ugly. The person who bought this should really try and get his money back. I mean, really. Look at it. Ugly.
But aesthetics aren't the only part of the house that's ugly. The price sticker? $1 billion dollars. It's the most expensive house in the world, bought by the fourth richest man in the world. This mansion was built in Mumbai. I can't understand why anyone would spend that much money on a house. Donate it. There are people practically next door who are starving, and you have the audacity to waste $1 billion dollars on a house for five people? How dare you! This is greed at it's finest.
Also, the mansion has 27 stories. It has a health club with a full gym, a movie theater, a dance studio, at least one regular studio, a ballroom, guest rooms, a wide range of lounges, etc. They employ 600 servants. Again, I find this revolting. You can use the excuse "we're giving people jobs" all you want, but 600 servants? For five people? That's 120 servants per person? What, does the guy want to be a country in and of himself? He isn't the Vatican, for Christ's sake. And do you really need a health club and dance studio in your own house? Really? 600 servants? That is obscene!
One sentence in the article really bothered me.
From the top floors of the 173m high property are spectacular views of Mumbai, the Arabian Sea and the slums!I mean sure, a view of the sea from the middle of a city is quite nice. I'm sure Mumbai is a beautiful city (at least some parts of it, anyway), but a view of the slums? You built a $1 billion home with a spectacular view of the slums. How ironic, that your disgusting show of greed and gluttony is so close to those people who live in constant worry of starving to death. How can you, in good conscience, live so close to starvation. I hope you feel sick every day, waking up and looking your top floor window and seeing people below you living in such extreme poverty while you revel in your excessive capitalist greed.
This is what is wrong with capitalism. This is why Karl Marx came up with communism, this is why socialism is so important. Anyone who can afford this kind of house and can, in good conscience, buy it and still fall asleep at night, deserve to lose all his money. Either that or be taxed until his pockets are empty to help the people in those slums he has such a great view of.
