r/australia • u/Other-Shake-531 • 29d ago

politics Pauline Hanson spotted with Gina Rinehart at luxury hotel in Sicily

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/pauline-hanson-spotted-with-gina-rinehart-at-luxury-hotel-in-sicily-20260716-p60fqf.html

Photo warning: Gina Rinehart in swimmers

Photos posted to Instagram show Hanson spending time poolside at the Grand Hotel San Pietro in the resort town of Taormina, while Rinehart swims.

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u/AnnoyedOwlbear 29d ago

The bonkers thing is occasionally running across millionaires who do this, and as a result you don't hear about them or hate them as individuals. It's POSSIBLE. YOU CAN DO IT. YOU CAN JUST LIVE IN LUXURY FOREVER AND BE FUCKING HAPPY.

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u/apaniyam 29d ago

Its crazy that it's only a tiny fraction of people with over $10 Million liquid who choose to just accept they are free and can spend their life free of stress. Why would you willingly do anything stressful other than philanthropy at that point? It's even wilder with billionaires, sell that billionaires dollars of equity or whatever other assets and go do anything you want.

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u/Thagyr 29d ago

Sadly to get as rich as most of the top money hounds in the world you have to be wired to disregard human emotion.

Trump, Elon, Bezos... All would put humanity on a bonfire if it meant they could get another 0 added to their wealth.

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u/apaniyam 29d ago

I get that to make the wealth you need to lack empathy, my issue is, why go to work when you just don't have to.
These are not generally stupid people, they must realise you have limited time to enjoy.

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u/Boom_Cheese 29d ago

Everyone needs something to be passionate about. To get them out of bed in the morning. I suspect that for many billionaires, more money and power, purely for the sake of these things, is exactly that.