• FinishingDutch@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    I hear that. My grandfather was descended of German nobility. Nothing major, but he was the son of a prince. To be clear: a complete nobody even when German nobility was still a thing pre-WW1. After the war, they pretty much abolished all that in a revolution.

    But basically, if I go back four generations, we owned a ‘castle’ somewhere. Meanwhile, I’m solidly in the peasant class.

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      15 days ago

      Good news, I hear you can probably get a castle for fairly cheap. Only problem is you have to maintain it.

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          Quite a few countries, Italy for example, will either sell you a castle for dirt cheap or just give it to you, as long as you promise to restore and maintain it.

          Which is, to be clear, an absolute pain in the ass, since those castles have very strict restrictions about how to repair and upgrade them, materials and even companies you’re allowed to use, etc. Not to mention they’re a bitch to heat in the winter.

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            The cheapest castle in Italy I can see from a cursory glance is 1.3 million euros. You must be on that good gnome shit.

            Edit: that’s an outside area of 732m² and an internal of 184m². It’s a literal tower on a tiny plot for 1.3 million dollars. Nothing about that seems remotely close to cheap.

            • zzffyfajzkzhnsweqm@sh.itjust.works
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              14 days ago

              It costs as much as normal house closer to the city. This makes it cheaper than one would expect for a giant historically important castle. If those were built today by modern standards they would cost much more.

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                14 days ago

                So what you mean to say is castles are relatively cheap, not that they are actually cheap?

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                  14 days ago

                  Everything that is cheap is relatively cheap. Nothing is cheap in absolute sense. Most of ut is based on my ginancial situation if I have zero € everything is expensive.

                  Or the other example how low number does bot make someyhing cheap. If 1 byte of mobile internet data costs only 0.01€ is that cheap or expensive? But it is only 1c.

                  To talk about cheap or expensive you are always talking about either how much similar items usually cost or how easily you specifically can afford it. But it is always relative.

  • QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works
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    Oh wait till you hear about my family.

    My family was French Aristocracy that faked their deaths and moved to America to avoid the French Revolution

    Then they owned slaves, but the deeds to their plantations and land and shit were burned in a slave revolt and they lost it all.

    Then they helped found the Klan and became poor white trash…

    We could have been rich and not lived in America. But no we had to become poor AND racist.

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    15 days ago

    Be family

    Need Slaves

    No money

    Remeber slaves are literally slaves and cost nothing

    Get slaves

    I don’t think you have to be rich to own slaves.

    Edit: Some of ya’ll don’t understand what shitposting is.

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      You do have to feed, keep them healthy, clothe and shelter them along with you and your family - plus they did cost money to buy, they don’t spontaneously appear. You’d need a modicum of wealth to afford and keep one. Not much, but some.

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    15 days ago

    Any wealth inheritance has been divided amongst an unknown number of heirs for the last, what 5 generations? 7? That shit’s long gone.

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    14 days ago

    Owning slaves was like owning a tractor. Your ancestors werent rich they were just lazy. Like you and your dad, who’s a Wendy’s manager at 57.

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    When people call you a coloniser because you’re English, but actually your ancestors were relocated from their subsistence village life to big cities to work for pennies in textiles mills to make the landowners wealthier than ever.

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    Well, I’m related to Steve Kerr and apparently Robert S. Kerr helped expand Social Security… so I guess the Kerr’s are ok people? Idk man, I haven’t seen shit from Steve Kerr lol.

    Edit: I guess a Joseph Kerr died in the Alamo which… idk if that’s a point for or against the name.