09-09-2011, 04:17 AM
haikuman wrote:
[quote=Winston]
[quote=Plumbking]
My new company is in the process of bidding the plumbing for the Apple Campus 2 project.
So far the total cost of construction is hovering around 4 billion.
yowser.
That will be equaled by Christmas Sales from the iPhone 5 :priate:
Surely. But what scares me is edifice complex. Where is the Sears Tower? The Pan Am building? The Woolworth building? Transamerica Pyramid? (These latter two retained their names, but not the original companies). Lots of other examples.
For individuals, see giant homes in New York City (mostly all gone - visit the Frick Museum for a taste) or "cottages" in Newport, RI and elsewhere.
Sometimes (ofttimes?) having a lot of money means not spending it well.
- W