this is why all rich people are retired.

Well...

Veblen discusses how the pursuit and the possession of wealth affects human behavior, that the contemporary lords of the manor, the businessmen who own the means of production, have employed themselves in the economically unproductive practices of conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure, which are useless activities that contribute neither to the economy nor to the material production of the useful goods and services required for the functioning of society.

Functionally retired.

You see it all the time among Tech plutocracy, with Bezos's Venice Wedding and Zuck's endless home construction.

And don't want us to have a 4-day week or work remote.

Not that I'm a proponent of capitalism as the default economic model (I'm very much not) but I dislike this particular argument because it misrepresent the function of capital.

Large projects require upfront investment that is beyond the means of individuals or even groups of individuals (e.g. 100 prospective tenants cannot afford to build and office building; you need someone able to front the equivalent of X years rental costs), and those investments need to be managed by specialists. Whether those specialists are independent or employed by a central governing body, you still need capital and you still need effective oversight to prevent corruption and exploitation.

What we need are guaranteed public offerings, with a rising baseline over time, that leave opportunity for capital investment in luxury upgrades. The guaranteed public offerings prevent gross exploitation by the capitalists, and the capital investments provide the innovation pressure and luxury offerings that incentivize those inclined to seek said luxuries without exploiting the public offering system to do it.

I get vaccines for diseases that don't even exist... Everyone has the small poxs vaccine but I also have medium poxs and even large poxs vaccination.

I will say one I don't recommend is I got the mumps vaccine so I figured I should get a dumps vaccine... It just made me really constipated.

/s this is a joke, yes get your vaccines but only ones for real diseases...

I've gotten 17 fresh new hip replacements since I was 8.

I do chemo recreationally

Something interesting about this is that Bourgeois neoclassical economics manages to acknowledge that people won't simply consume greedily, even if things are free.

Marginal Utility asserts that people will only consume commodities such that they satisfy some want or need. If I'm hungry, I'll buy a banana, maybe a bunch to have later.

But my hunger won't drive me to buy 800 bunches in one go, because that many bananas has a deminishing return in their marginal utility to satiate my hunger.

If that's true, it doesn't require market mechanisms for the distribution of goods and services to continue being true. Re: your healthcare example

There’s actually limits on the frequency you can do stuff. From somewhere that has mostly feee healthcare.

This is an excellent insight.

I know it’s not really your point, but I don’t think this is about homeowners. I've never paid for water (or behaved like this) in a rented apartment. Unless you have a well, you often do have to pay for municipal water if you own the property. Even with a well, you’re paying for any filtration based on usage.

Idk of this happens in Germany but in the U.S. some landlords, mostly smaller ones, will fold the water bill into the rent. So it is effectively "free" in that you are not charged by the amount you use.

Poor dears and their scarcity mindset, overcompensating. Always needing more. Always egged on by the fear of loss and insecurity, and fear of those with less, wanting what they have.

I mean, if I had, essentially, unlimited money, and there were places in the world I liked to visit repeatedly, and I don't mean "for a weekend" but months or seasons at a time? Hell yeah I'd buy a house there.

At a minimum, one Southern Hemisphere, one Northern Hemisphere. Never see Summer again.

A man had free water in his house. This is what happened to his brain.

is the powerhouse of the cell.

You definitely do pay for it in your taxes

You absolutely monster

This is solved by raising awareness and education

Not sure that's possible. Despite decades of trying, they continue running marathons everywhere for raising awareness of breast cancer, because apparently people still aren't aware. If it hasn't worked for breast cancer, then how will it work for water? Giving up on humanity might be the best move here.

And powering chatbot training datacenters

Saudi Arabia has to grow their Alfalfa somewhere

Aka people will be ungrateful and I will profit less, therefore I'm not making the world a better place.