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jeffw OP , 1 month ago to world in A Wedding Puts India’s Gilded Age on Lavish Display

The article doesn’t go super easy on the family, although it omits the company’s abuses:

In 2000, India had nine billionaires, according to Oxfam. Now, India has 200 billionaires, who collectively hold around $1 trillion in wealth, according to Forbes — nearly a quarter of the country’s 2023 gross domestic product.

A recent study about wealth and inequality in India subtitled “The Rise of the Billionaire Raj” found that the total wealth of billionaires has steadily increased from under 5 percent of national income in the 1990s to more than a fifth in 2022.

The Ambani family’s wealth and influence are so unquestioned that even the use of public resources to aid his private festivities can be a source of pride. In March, the pre-wedding function they hosted in Jamnagar, a town in the western state of Gujarat where Reliance’s oil refinery is based, threatened to overwhelm the town’s small domestic airport.

To Ms. Venkatesan, the celebration was about more than the wealthy getting wealthier; she was bothered by what she called the “valorization” of this kind of wealth.
It’s not just the mind-boggling rise of billionaire wealth that is new, but also the way that wealth has created a new kind of royalty in a country well acquainted with maharajahs.
Like yesteryear’s royal families, today’s billionaires are increasingly keeping their wealth within their class — either through dynastic succession or by marriage.

jeffw OP , 1 month ago to world in A Wedding Puts India’s Gilded Age on Lavish Display

This is an obscene display of wealth

jeffw OP , 1 month ago to news in White House Dings Tommy Tuberville for Boasting on Funding He Voted Against

It’s like a minor slam

jeffw OP , 1 month ago to news in How Watermelon Cupcakes Kicked Off an Internal Storm at Meta

There was a company that did fried chicken and watermelon I think. I saw it somewhere on Lemmy

jeffw , 1 month ago to memes in never turn off uBlock

insert dick pic album cover here

jeffw OP , 1 month ago to technology in Child predators are exploiting kids on OnlyFans despite vows of safety

None. My point is that there’s a shit ton of abuse out there. Only a tiny amount is caught

You said the people who do this get arrested. But they don’t. Only a tiny fraction get caught and arrested

jeffw OP , 1 month ago to news in ‘New York learning about trash cans in 2024 is an insane flex’: Eric Adams trolled over wheelie bins ‘trash revolution’

And the rest of the USA tbh

jeffw OP , 1 month ago to news in Trump challenges Biden to another debate and a golf match ‘to redeem himself’

There’s one scheduled for September iirc

jeffw OP , 1 month ago to news in Singapore has approved 16 insects to eat as food: here’s everything you need to know

I’m skeptical of any sort of seafood. Yes, it might be low environmental impact but we’ve overfished so much

jeffw , 1 month ago to technology in Meta to pull posts targeting 'Zionists' for harm

I love how people downvote instead of reading.

This just in: you can critisize Israel and zionism and still accept that other people have misused the word “zionism” to hide their antisemitism

jeffw OP , 1 month ago to news in Insurers Pocketed $50 Billion From Medicare for Diseases No Doctor Treated

No worries lol, I just wasn’t sure why an archive link showed up in the mod queue. It happens

jeffw OP , 1 month ago to news in Insurers Pocketed $50 Billion From Medicare for Diseases No Doctor Treated

Did you mean to make this comment a report lol?

jeffw OP , 1 month ago to technology in Child predators are exploiting kids on OnlyFans despite vows of safety

The ones who get caught, yeah.

jeffw OP , 1 month ago to world in After 9 Months of War, Israelis Call for a Cease-Fire Deal and Elections

Do you generate these gift links or do you find them somewhere? I feel like I see you in the comments doing that a lot (or at least a few times). I usually save mine for the end of the month but if there’s somewhere I can find them, I’d like to know about it

jeffw OP , 1 month ago to world in After 9 Months of War, Israelis Call for a Cease-Fire Deal and Elections

Took me two minutes to show this is incorrect.

The plurality think the invasion was “just about right.” “Not gone far enough” is 2nd, beating out only “gone too far.”

pewresearch.org/…/israeli-views-of-the-israel-ham…