mukesh-ambani-house.jpgWhat’s a man to do when one has $43 billion dollars? How about building a $2 billion dollar skyscraper house? That’s what Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani is doing in Mumbai.

I think it’s excessive but it’s his money and he has the right to do what he wants with it.

Take a look at the place called Antilla. It’s 400,000 square feet. Sure makes Bill Gate’s house seem small (at ONLY 50,000 square feet) and cheap ($136 million).

In contrast, Warren Buffett is giving away most of his fortune. Now that’s a move that I really admire.

According to Buffett, he “agreed with Andrew Carnegie, who said that huge fortunes that flow in large part from society should in large part be returned to society.”

Consider this - according to the World Bank statistics on poverty, “it has been estimated that in 2001, 1.1 billion people had consumption levels below $1 a day and 2.7 billion lived on less than $2 a day.”

How many people would $2 billion dollars feed?

Let’s keep things in perspective.

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