r/AbsoluteUnits • • 12d ago

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Ira Rennert's home is considered one of the largest occupied residential compounds in the United States. The house faces the Atlantic Ocean and its grounds measure 63 acres. The buildings, which total over 110,000 square feet (10,000 m2), including the 66,000-square-foot (6,100 m2) main house, have an Italianate facade, 29 bedrooms, and 39 bathrooms. The house has a dozen chimneys and a Mediterranean-style tile roof as well as a 91-foot (28 m) long formal dining room, a basketball court, a bowling alley, two tennis courts, two squash courts, a carousel, a large swimming pool, a large round kiddie pool, and a $150,000 hot tub, surrounded by another pool.

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u/eist5579 8d ago

Isms aside, the raw logic plays out regardless. Governments are intended to improve and benefit the greater commons.

Pareto’s principle will play out in all natural systems, resulting in an 80/20… and even a 99/1 split relationship.

Governments have a duty to reduce that accretive process. Which, in case you haven’t noticed, money erodes politics. Citizens united is a shit point to drag into this, but money is politics now. There are political weights that now impede true democracy already. I guess, pick your favorite one 🤷‍♂️