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The weird hobbies of the mega rich - C C - Jun 24, 2023
https://www.cityam.com/explainer-the-weird-hobbies-of-the-mega-rich/
EXCERPTS: The Titan submarine’s story kept the world gripped this week [...] the nature of the expedition and its cost – $250,000 per person – also raised the topic of how people with a lot of money in their pockets end up having the most uncommon of hobbies.
Rich people, in particular billionaires, are for instance obsessed with space [...] there will be future rides on Blue Origin’s (Bezos’ company) spacecraft at the cost of nearly $100m.
Another thing that the extremely rich seem to have in common is the desire to stop ageing and be forever young and fit [...] just look at multi-millionaire Bryan Johnson, who’s injecting himself with his teenage son’s blood in a bid to stay as young and fit as possible.
Another classic is exotic animals. The world-famous former professional boxer Mike Tyson at one point owned three tigers. [...] Justin Bieber got a capuchin monkey...
[...] And then the most recent one – the planned cage fight between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Musk challenged Zuckerberg to a fight on Twitter, and Zuckerberg replied on Instagram with a picture captioned “Send me location”. It’s weird as everything these two men do – but perhaps fighting has just become the latest addition to the hobbies list of the megarich... (MORE - missing details)