Billionaire Boy Story

[Reuquen Boyett]

Itsucks how the story wants you to follow this specific path. I mean, if Episode wants the story to go as such, at least make the two more likeable. Though I admit Matteo is cute and sweet (even though I legitimately thought he was a mafia leader)

Description : Ashley just moved into her dream apartment and her next door neighbor is a hot billionaire bachelor. Will she fall in love with him or she will push him away? (Limelight) (Character customization) (choices).

The kings of steel, of petroleum, and all the other kings of the United States have always in a high degree excited my power of imagination. It seemed to me certain that these people who possess so much money could not be like other mortals.

Each of them (so I said to myself) must call his own, at least, three stomachs and a hundred and fifty teeth. I did not doubt that the millionaire ate without intermission, from six o'clock in the morning till midnight. It goes without saying, the most exquisite and sumptuous viands! Toward evening, then, he must be tired of the hard chewing, to such a degree that (so I pictured to myself) he gave orders to his servants to digest the meals that he had swallowed with satisfaction during the day. Completely limp, covered with sweat and almost suffocated, he had to be put to bed by his servants, in order that on the next morning at six o'clock he might be able to begin again his work of eating.

To be sure, such a life is awful, but what is one to do? For what is one a millionaire -- what am I saying? -- a billionaire, if one cannot eat more than every other common mortal! I pictured to myself that this privileged being wore cloth-of-gold underclothing, shoes with gold nails, and instead of a hat a diadem of diamonds on his head. His clothes, made of the most expensive velvet, must be at least fifty feet long and fastened with three hundred gold buttons; and on holidays he must be compelled by dire necessity to put on over each other six pairs of costly trousers. Such a costume is certainly very uncomfortable. But, if one is rich like that, one can't after all dress like all the world.

The pocket of a billionaire, I pictured to myself so big that therein easily a church or the whole senate could find room. The paunch of such a gentleman I conceived to myself like the hull of an ocean steamer, the length and breadth of which I was not able to think out. Of the bulk, too, of a billionaire I could never give myself a clear idea; but I supposed that the coverlet under which he sleeps measures a dozen hundred square yards. If he chews tobacco, it was unquestionably only the best kind, of which he always sticks two pounds at a time into his mouth. And on taking snuff (I thought to myself) he must use up a pound at a pinch. Indeed, money will be spent!

His fingers must possess the magic power of lengthening at will. In spirit, I saw a New York billionaire as he stretched out his hand across Bering Strait and brought back a dollar that had rolled somewhere toward Siberia, without especially exerting himself thereby.

Curiously, I could form to myself no clear conception of the head of this monster. In this organism consisting of gigantic muscles and bones that is made for squeezing money out of all things, a head seemed to me really quite superfluous.

I saw there comfortably reclining in an armchair a long, wizened old man, who held his brown, sinewy hands folded across a body of quite ordinary dimensions. The flabby skin of his face was carefully shaved. The underlip, which hung loosely down, covered solidly built jaws, in which gilded teeth were stuck. The upper lip, smooth, narrow and pallid, scarcely moved when the old man spoke. Colorless eyes without brows, a perfectly bald skull. It might be thought that a little skin was wanting to this reddish face, to this countenance that was expressionless and puckered like that of one new-born. Was this being just beginning its life, or was it already nearing its end?

Nothing in his dress distinguished him from the ordinary mortal. A ring, a watch, and his teeth were all the gold he carried with him. Scarcely half a pound, all told! Taken altogether, the appearance of the man recalled that of an old servant of an aristocratic family in Europe.

The furnishing of the room in which he received me had nothing unusually luxurious about it. The furniture was solid; that is all that can be said. Oftentimes elephants probably come into this house, I involuntarily thought at the sight of the heavy, substantial pieces of furniture.

'Oh, you're a counterfeiter!' I exclaimed, joyfully, for I thought I had finally got to the bottom of the mystery. But the billionaire flew into a passion. His whole body shook, his eyes rolled actively.

'Oh, that's very simple. I possess railroads; the farmers produce useful commodities, which I transport to the markets. I calculate exactly to myself how much money I must leave the farmer, in order that he may not starve and be able to produce further. The rest I keep myself as transportation charges. That's surely very simple!'

As always, i have enjoyed your post immensly. Thank you for taking the time to share this insight with us. I dont about everyone else but these posts are really helping me to shape my story. Many karma credits to you!

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An NPR story by tech reporter Dara Kerr about billionaire Marc Benioff buying land in and around Waimea on Hawaiʻi Island caused a stir when it was published in February. The audio version aired in March.

After the story broke, many internet articles and social media posts echoed suspicions about Benioff's ulterior motives. He's the CEO and co-founder of Salesforce, one of the world's largest software companies.

Several friends and relatives reached out to Subiono to share their thoughts about Kerr's article. He spoke with Kerr about her connection to Waimea, diving into property records, interviewing Benioff one-on-one, and the community's reaction.

My family has lived off and on Hawaiʻi for several generations. So I spent a lot of time growing up there. I lived there as a kid. I went to Waimea Elementary School for just a year in fourth grade, but it was formative. And I go back as often as possible. And my family lives there off and on, part time and full time. So I was there visiting my family in November, and I started just hearing these rumors around town. And as the tech reporter at NPR, I was interested because everyone knew it was Marc Benioff, but no one knew what was going on. And people seemed pretty freaked out, you know, not everybody, but a lot of people were like, is he going to bring in all these engineers and like is that gonna change the face of our town? And so I just got really curious to figure out what was going on.

He reached out to me first via my colleague. So I was just kind of poking around town asking questions, trying to map out the property records. And he got in contact with one of my colleagues and said he wanted to speak with me. And so then we started this month-long conversation. We spoke on the phone a couple of times, we texted a lot. But I would say the vast majority of those conversations were about his philanthropy. It seems that's how he really wanted the story to be focused. And then I did have a sit-down interview with him in Waimea at one of his properties.

I mean, there's definitely a handful of people I spoke with who do have access to him and who he speaks to, leaders of the town and leaders of the community. But the vast majority of people said it's near impossible to understand what he's doing and what's going on. It's very similar to what you said happened with Larry Ellison, like there's no clear plans about his intentions to the larger community. And I think that's why people started getting really worried. And to backtrack a teeny bit too like, the timing of this is interesting because the vast majority of Benioff's land buys in Waimea have been since a pandemic, so it's new. And so I think when I talked to him, he kept asking why are you doing the story, why are you doing the story? I'm like, because you just bought all this land, and people are freaking out. And so yeah, but that is definitely something I've heard from people. And since the story published, I've gotten a ton of emails from people. And it's been really interesting. And that is like, the throughline that I have heard is that people just are worried because there's this lack of communication.

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