A bumper day for Peter Hargreaves?

nefarius

Brexit backer billionaire, Hargreaves, rakes it in on election day result?

https://portfolio-adviser.com/peter-hargreaves-wealth-jumps-closer-to-5bn-on-uk-election/

Bloomberg calculated his wealth increased from $4.1bn to $4.6bn on Friday.

caro120

nefarius

what would anyone do with 5 billion apart from try and do some good with it.. what company is it he has?

frenchielove

nefarius blimey, it's like monopoly money, I cannot even imagine it

scrips49

nefarius Rich get richer?

nefarius

caro120 Probably open a business and step on a few people whilst on the way to stepping on someone else.

caro120

nefarius

you can tell I didn't do business studies lol

i was thinking if had that sort of money what on earth would you spend it on. nice estate in country.. plant an oak wood or summat. money can isolate you tho, would worry about who could trust and the more you got the more you got to lose.. there's a happy medium.

caro120

frenchielove

how they can talk about zillions for HS2 without getting giddy I don't know.. it would represent too much responsibility for me

at least we've had some philanthropical donations in past, carnegie was one that springs to mind.. guess back in the day they were guided by christianity to have conscience - or guilt maybe with some? we can't begin to imagine the lives some of them had.

not nice reading so...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2248047/Eva-Rausing-death-Billionaire-Tetra-Pak-heir-tells-inquest-hid-wifes-body-12-layers-clothes.html

fancy having all that money and going over to crack, crackers! maybe extreme case of money not making people happy..

looking around he apparently got total of 12 months for driving under influence of crack and for preventing decent burial of body. not sure how I feel about that. hope he went to rehab and was monitored from time to time, did he get a driving ban? where were the family in all this, they must have had some clue as to what going on.

this is article on the new chap ceo of tetrapak
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/sci-fi-movies-quality-time-with-family-help-adolfo-orive-unwind-and-stay-happy/articleshow/70460204.cms

he's worked all over the place, spain, columbia...

caro120

scrips49

money goes to money (though they have been known to blow it all in the past!)

must have been dreadful after WW2 when inheritance tax came about, many just sold up and downsized.. collections were split up, some houses left to rot - I think that's criminal really though it's led to some beautiful ruins. with ownership comes responsibility, we are just custodians etc.