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[Image description: a dining room with teal blue walls, with a pink neon sign saying “let them eat cake” written in cursive.]

  • wild@lemmy.world
    1402·
    10 months ago

    For those who don’t know, the phrase “let them eat cake” is commonly attributed to Marie Antoinette, the Queen of France in the late 18th century. However, there’s no concrete evidence she actually said this. The phrase is used to portray her as out of touch with the suffering of the French people during a time of widespread poverty and famine.

    Having the phrase “let them eat cake” in a super luxurious house is incredibly insensitive because it symbolizes a callous disregard for the struggles of those less fortunate. It’s a reminder of the kind of detachment and insensitivity that can perpetuate social inequalities and exacerbate class divides, which is particularly tone-deaf in a setting of opulence.

    • EdanGrey@sh.itjust.works
      292·
      10 months ago

      I’m gonna say they probably just think it sounds cool and have no idea what it actually means

      • Gork@lemm.ee
        292·
        10 months ago

        Nah they definitely know and are using it to flaunt their wealth over us poors

        • FatLegTed@feddit.uk
          1·
          10 months ago

          Isn’t that a bit pointless as is poors only get to see it via an estate agent photo?

          It’s still shite though.

          • Gork@lemm.ee
            2·
            10 months ago

            No, the rich people around the dinner table use it to justify their superiority over the rest of us while they’re eating.

      • restingboredface@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        10 months ago

        Generally when something can be explained due to stupidity or maleficence, stupidity is usually the culprit.

        Given that this quote is related an historical myth, I think this stupidity is way more likely.

        Stupid, but still insensitive.

    • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
      20·
      10 months ago

      What if the homeowner openly and confidently enjoys the struggles of the less fortunate?

    • lorty
      7·
      10 months ago

      It’s interesting to note that she was widely hated even at the time though not because she was a rich noble, but because she was austrian. So it’s possible the phrase is a fabrication that stuck.

    • Cruxifux@lemmy.world
      592·
      10 months ago

      Yeah, tone deaf isn’t the right word. Overtly evil and stupid is probably the phrase they were looking for.

    • moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      91·
      10 months ago

      Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

      I could easily see an out of touch rich person thinking of it only as a thing that goes along with rich people, (and not realize the actual meaning).

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
        33·
        10 months ago

        Like the rich person equivalent of “live laugh love” and “it’s wine o’clock”?

        By the way if anybody has any of those on their walls, I hate you and you deserve death.

  • Obinice@lemmy.world
    24·
    10 months ago

    The bourgeoisie know EXACTLY what they are, and what the joke is. They get it. They’re laughing at us.

    Constantly laughing at us. They know how stupid we are for doing exactly what they want like their little slaughter pigs. Generation after generation, we obey them with a smile on our faces.

    So I mean, can you really blame them for laughing at the joke, when we’re the ones making it funny for them? :-(

    • Snapz@lemmy.world
      111·
      10 months ago

      Your wife probably needs to have a charitable angle to her core business plan or people may get mad if it’s solely catering to wealthy people. Something like weekly cupcake donations to a local shelter.

    • Gork@lemm.ee
      7·
      10 months ago

      That might make it difficult to get an online presence since the name is a common phrase.

      Elon is having the same problem with X because… well it’s a letter that’s part of the friggin language.

  • Seraph@kbin.social
    17·
    10 months ago

    I very badly want to know what that pattern is in the pool. The striping is tacky but what’s that crest/logo?

  • expatriado@lemmy.world
    15·
    10 months ago

    if you search for let them eat cake decor, you’ll see it has turned into another live laugh love

      • FaeDrifter@midwest.socialEnglish
        92·
        10 months ago

        Watching a basic human need go unrealistically out of reach for average hard working people should radicalize just about anyone.

          • D1G17AL@kbin.social
            91·
            10 months ago

            Its so simple for you but for those of us that actually grew up in places like California we don’t want to move 800 miles just to afford a house. We don’t want to move away from our friends and family members just to be able to afford a house in the middle of butt-fucking nowhere.

          • asteriskeverything@lemmy.world
            5·
            10 months ago

            Well I mean some people have to live in California, New York, Ontario and other obscene high COL areas. There are also a lot of jobs that really ONLY exist in Los Angeles in any meaningful way. Doesn’t have to be 18m but go ahead and try to find a house in one of those regions within your budget and imagine having no alternative.

            Plus they are nice places to live with more progressive state laws and protections some people don’t feel safe leaving. I know what you’re trying to say and I understand. Just want to point out that people are able to look at RIDICULOUS real estate to laugh at or daydream or cure curiosity, and then get frustrated because honestly all their options feel just as ridiculous and unachievable.

            • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              21·
              10 months ago

              The mansion isn’t taking the place of affordable housing. It’s taking the place of an art collection, a yacht, or some other status symbol that rich celebrities might want. The price of mansions doesn’t affect anyone except those rich celebrities, and they want mansions to be expensive because that makes them better status symbols.

              • FaeDrifter@midwest.socialEnglish
                3·
                10 months ago

                Mathematically, there is a finite limited number of resources on the planet.

                Why are resources going into social status symbol when not everyone has their basic human needs met?

                Why is it a higher priority that a rich person have a mansion to show off how rich they are, then have many other people get a roof over their head at night?

                • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  21·
                  10 months ago

                  You have a point, but status symbols are positional goods so often their high cost doesn’t correspond to a large use of resources. If one rich guy buys a painting from another rich guy, ten million dollars changes hands but that’s it; ten million dollars worth of stuff isn’t being used up.

                  This isn’t always the case - I presume an expensive yacht really does take a lot of resources to build. And this mansion took resources to build too. Still, the most valuable thing about the mansion is its location - the same mansion but not in Beverly Hills might be worth ten times less. I think it’s more like the painting than like the yacht.

  • soupspoon@lemmy.world
    3·
    10 months ago

    I didn’t realize at first that the property manager decorated it all this way to be ready for renting out lol

    The over-the-topness of it all makes more and less sense that way- let them eat cake and monopoly man, naked newspaper reader and swimmer ladies, cocaine ad bench cushion by the pool

  • LoveSausage
    31·
    10 months ago

    Where did they move? I mean like an exact address?