[Desi Masala] The Billionaire house
Hi all,
Just sharing a mail that should get you thinking...
THE BILLIONAIRE'S HOUSE THAT'S HELPING EVERYONE By Melvin Durrai
What kind of house does a billionaire build? Well, if you're
Bill Gates, you build a $100 million, high-tech house that's
full of modern amenities, such as a 17-by-60-foot swimming
pool that plays music underwater, a reception hall that
seats 150 people and an underground hshelter in case the
maids and gardeners need to hide from immigration.
If you're Mukesh Ambani, the Indian industrialist, you build
a house that has 27 floors, a parking garage for 168
imported cars, and three helipads, so you don't have to
drive any of those cars. At least not until they build
special lanes for billionaires.
Ambani's house, named Antilla and sprouting on Mumbai's
Altamount Road, is costing hundreds of millions of
dollars -- as much as $1 billion, according to some
reports -- but that's no major burden for one of the richest
men in the world. How rich is he? He's rich enough to
contribute millions of dollars to Bill and Hillary Clinton,
if only politicians weren't so ethical. He's rich enough to
buy his very own island in the Pacific, if only Australia
were for sale. He's rich enough to immunize and educate
millions of Indian children, if only Bill Gates weren't
doing that already.
There are many ways to contribute to society, many ways to
help the disadvantaged, and Ambani, as his supporters have
convinced me, is doing it by building a huge house. So
before you judge him, before you label his house an
appalling and outrageous display of wealth, you need to look
at the positive impact the house will have on thousands, if
not millions, of Indians. Indeed, some people are already
calling it the Mother Teresa of Houses.
Among the first to benefit, of course, are the people
involved in the construction, not just the architects,
engineers and other high-skilled workers, but also scores of
laborers. Not only have they earned a paycheck for a couple
of years, they will always walk past the house with pride,
in much the same way that the workers in ancient Egypt
walked past the pyramids.
Many have improved their lives by working on the Ambani
house. A laborer named Arunath, for example, has managed to
move his family from a one-room, ramshackle house in a
Mumbai slum to a two-room, ramshackle house in a Mumbai
slum. That may not seem like a big improvement, but small
steps are important, which is why the Ambanis are making
theirs out of marble. It symbolizes the progress that
everyone is making.
While the house will be the principal residence for Ambani,
his wife, Neeta, their three children and Ambani's mother,
it will also give comfort and shelter to numerous servants
and others. And let's not forget that the house, at a height
of 27 stories, will also provide shade to any pavement
dwellers nearby. (If they happen to enter the opulent
neighborhood.) To the delight of animal activists, the
building is also likely to offer a resting spot for pigeons
and other weary birds.
The Ambanis are expected to employ 600 people in the house.
They have created many of these jobs for the sole purpose of
giving people an opportunity to work and gain a sense of
self-worth. The indoor swimming pool, for example, is being
built largely as a means to employ a lifeguard, pool boy and
margarita server. Ambani has collected so many imported cars
in order to give work to drivers, mechanics and insurance
salesmen. Neeta has been just as benevolent.
Neeta: "I want to find work for two more people, make a
difference in two more lives."
Mukesh: "If you buy a hundred more shoes and handbags, you
can hire another wardrobe attendant."
Neeta: "Good idea. If I have two wardrobe attendants, then I
could create another position: supervisor of wardrobe
attendants. ... Let me call Isha ... Isha, let's go
shopping. We need to help more people!"
When your goal is to employ hundreds of people, you have to
come up with some ingenious ways to keep them occupied.
Hence such creative job titles as "pantry organizer," "panty
organizer," "pant organizer" and "pan organizer." And, of
course, "paan organizer."
In the adult bathrooms, they'll have jobs such as "perfume
sprayer," "teeth polisher" and "grey hair snipper." In the
children's bathrooms, they'll have "hair comber," "face
washer" and "pimple cream applier."
Perhaps the building's biggest role will be to serve as a
source of pride and motivation for millions of Indians,
particularly children. Inspired by the Ambani house, many of
them will be eager to take advantage of Bill Gates'
educational programs.
Together, the two billionaires are making a huge difference.
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