[Image description: a dining room with teal blue walls, with a pink neon sign saying “let them eat cake” written in cursive.]
For those who don’t know, the phrase “let them eat cake” is commonly attributed to Marie Antoinette, the Queen of France in the late 18th century. However, there’s no concrete evidence she actually said this. The phrase is used to portray her as out of touch with the suffering of the French people during a time of widespread poverty and famine.
Having the phrase “let them eat cake” in a super luxurious house is incredibly insensitive because it symbolizes a callous disregard for the struggles of those less fortunate. It’s a reminder of the kind of detachment and insensitivity that can perpetuate social inequalities and exacerbate class divides, which is particularly tone-deaf in a setting of opulence.
I’m gonna say they probably just think it sounds cool and have no idea what it actually means
Nah they definitely know and are using it to flaunt their wealth over us poors
One of you is right.
Isn’t that a bit pointless as is poors only get to see it via an estate agent photo?
It’s still shite though.
No, the rich people around the dinner table use it to justify their superiority over the rest of us while they’re eating.
Generally when something can be explained due to stupidity or maleficence, stupidity is usually the culprit.
Given that this quote is related an historical myth, I think this stupidity is way more likely.
Stupid, but still insensitive.
What if the homeowner openly and confidently enjoys the struggles of the less fortunate?
They might be a cake maker
They probably use a TON of fondant. Ewwe
It’s not tone deaf. They know exactly what they’re doing. That’s the tone they want.
It’s interesting to note that she was widely hated even at the time though not because she was a rich noble, but because she was austrian. So it’s possible the phrase is a fabrication that stuck.
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Is it still “tone deaf” if they know exactly what they’re saying?
Yeah, tone deaf isn’t the right word. Overtly evil and stupid is probably the phrase they were looking for.
Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
I could easily see an out of touch rich person thinking of it only as a thing that goes along with rich people, (and not realize the actual meaning).
Like the rich person equivalent of “live laugh love” and “it’s wine o’clock”?
By the way if anybody has any of those on their walls, I hate you and you deserve death.
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I mean we already have a solution to this don’t we?
Yes.
My wife is a pastry chef and her dream is to open her own pastry shop and called it “let them eat cake”.
Your wife probably needs to have a charitable angle to her core business plan or people may get mad if it’s solely catering to wealthy people. Something like weekly cupcake donations to a local shelter.
That might make it difficult to get an online presence since the name is a common phrase.
Elon is having the same problem with X because… well it’s a letter that’s part of the friggin language.
Yes, Elon is really struggling to get him or his business mentioned online lol
I mostly see it being mentioned as the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, because X isn’t specific enough lol
I wouldn’t. That’s just begging for a guillotine shop to open up next door.
People forget that it was the bakers that got it first at the start of the French Revolution.
Your wife must attain her dream!
“Up the Bundt” would be a better name.
It’s like they’re trying to get eaten at this point
The bourgeoisie know EXACTLY what they are, and what the joke is. They get it. They’re laughing at us.
Constantly laughing at us. They know how stupid we are for doing exactly what they want like their little slaughter pigs. Generation after generation, we obey them with a smile on our faces.
So I mean, can you really blame them for laughing at the joke, when we’re the ones making it funny for them? :-(
Would you blame the jester or the king for the plauged citizens locked out?
I very badly want to know what that pattern is in the pool. The striping is tacky but what’s that crest/logo?
Looks like it says “The Beverly Estate”. I really like the “Cocaine toothache drop” backrest on the pool bench, stay classy 1%!
Oof that’s bad. Also looks like they’re about to build something big up that hill and there will be other houses looking down now.
Lol… looking down right into their pool area… hehe
Tacky is an understatement. The striping is superglue.
It says “The Beverly Estate,” in part because it’s located at 1326 Beverly Estates Dr. in Beverly Hills.
You beat me, I swear I hadn’t seen your comment before I flew around Beverly Hills on the map and found it
Hah, same! Tried to zoom in, but no luck reading it.
The Beverly Estate?
if you search for let them eat cake decor, you’ll see it has turned into another live laugh love
Yeah, unpopular opinion but this is just whimsical (albeit tone deaf) kitchen decor about cake. Not “evil”.
Arbeit macht frei is just whimsical tone deaf commentary on hard work, amirite?
I once saw a giant “Who Is John Galt” sign in an Urban Outfitters. So… Could be worse?
There are John Galt signs in Brandy Melville stores.
That’s so freaking weird man
I’m out of the loop, but I’m too afraid to ask about the person being referred to in the sign.
Edit: decided to Google it. They’re from Atlas Shrugged.
The cake is a lie!
The cake is a lie!
Let them eat the rich
1326 Beverly Estate Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, USA
Omg too soon
Only three bedrooms? No thanks.
If this doesn’t radicalize you, nothing will.
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I see you’ve never tried to buy a house.
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Watching a basic human need go unrealistically out of reach for average hard working people should radicalize just about anyone.
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Its so simple for you but for those of us that actually grew up in places like California we don’t want to move 800 miles just to afford a house. We don’t want to move away from our friends and family members just to be able to afford a house in the middle of butt-fucking nowhere.
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Well I mean some people have to live in California, New York, Ontario and other obscene high COL areas. There are also a lot of jobs that really ONLY exist in Los Angeles in any meaningful way. Doesn’t have to be 18m but go ahead and try to find a house in one of those regions within your budget and imagine having no alternative.
Plus they are nice places to live with more progressive state laws and protections some people don’t feel safe leaving. I know what you’re trying to say and I understand. Just want to point out that people are able to look at RIDICULOUS real estate to laugh at or daydream or cure curiosity, and then get frustrated because honestly all their options feel just as ridiculous and unachievable.
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Right… Leave a meaningful career that you love, and go swing a hammer in Nebraska, 2500 miles from home, friends, and family, just so you can have food and shelter.
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A mansion in Beverly Hills is now a basic human need? This isn’t exactly affordable housing…
The fact that we have Beverly Hills mansions when there isn’t enough affordable housing, obviously.
The mansion isn’t taking the place of affordable housing. It’s taking the place of an art collection, a yacht, or some other status symbol that rich celebrities might want. The price of mansions doesn’t affect anyone except those rich celebrities, and they want mansions to be expensive because that makes them better status symbols.
Mathematically, there is a finite limited number of resources on the planet.
Why are resources going into social status symbol when not everyone has their basic human needs met?
Why is it a higher priority that a rich person have a mansion to show off how rich they are, then have many other people get a roof over their head at night?
You have a point, but status symbols are positional goods so often their high cost doesn’t correspond to a large use of resources. If one rich guy buys a painting from another rich guy, ten million dollars changes hands but that’s it; ten million dollars worth of stuff isn’t being used up.
This isn’t always the case - I presume an expensive yacht really does take a lot of resources to build. And this mansion took resources to build too. Still, the most valuable thing about the mansion is its location - the same mansion but not in Beverly Hills might be worth ten times less. I think it’s more like the painting than like the yacht.
Is the affordable housing here with us now?
