I think that when most people think of wealthy people, they think of people like a friend of ours who took over a family business and made it very successful. He pays taxes, he employs people in his neighborhood, he works his butt off. However, if you really start to explore the very wealthy, what you find are people who may have started less wealthy but have a magnitude of wealth that is unfathomable. The Walmart heirs could purchase all of California. That’s insane.
One of the oddest things about working on Figure 8 Island is that it’s a place with homes that most of us could only dream of owning - and these were people’s summer homes. You and me, if we owned a house like this, damn straight we’d be there all summer enjoying every last drop of sun. But, the people who are wealthy enough to own these houses take them for granted. The island, even at peak season, had way more empty houses than full ones. However, the island was overrun with gardeners and maids tending to the empty houses.
