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Waste of time and money. Living alone in a mansion large enough to house the refugee population of a third world country is absurd.
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Maybe to your viewpoint. I know plenty of other people with the viewpoint that to spend their money on other people is equally absurd. Neither group has any more right than the other to call the other's ideas absurd.
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Isolation = suicide. When you don't have neighbors, anyone can kill you and get away with it. You could fall down, crack your head and bleed to death because there's no one around to help you. You could light your house on fire by accident and not be able to do anything to save it because there's no fire department anywhere nearby.
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Again, to your point of view. Personally, I love isolation, and like nothing more than spending time in the middle of nowhere. Dont forget, humans have been around much longer than fire departments, and the possibility of murder and injury have always been there. We are still here. I can assure you that the possibility of being murdered is much less in the back woods of Maine than it is in NY city.
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Hooray for capitalism at work - obscenely rich people who don't know what to do with their money who waste it building largely useless dream houses on deserted tropical isles.
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Yes, it is capitalism at work. And capitalism sucks sometimes, quite frequently actually. But what would you prefer? A broken socialist or communist system where the reigns of power are even more segregated to the rich with no hope of change?