Namely something after yourself is tacky. But what should buildings be named after? Famous scientists? Planets?
Feeney seems like an awesome guy but sadly in 100 years nobody will know his name!
Feeney seems like an awesome guy but sadly in 100 years nobody will know his name!
Yes, absolutely. And if a certain General Hospital in San Francisco were not named after the tackiest of billionaires then maybe it could honor, I dunno, Hugh Toland?
Instead of dedicating most of its "about us" page to shining a youngish oligarch's already controversial reputation?
https://zuckerbergsanfranciscogeneral.org/about-us/our-histo...
I was wrong.
Basically, the uber rich want to be seen as something more than just money. Guys like Anschutz and whatnot. There seems to be a pattern where they get a new shiny glass and steel building with a bunch of sick kids in it, and then they put the wife's name, an ampersand, his name, and the last name in big 3-D letters on the side. Likely it's a tax writeoff.
Also, not to be too cynical, but it's not a bad thing overall. The money could be sitting in the Caymans afterall.
That doesn't make any sense. They pay for that art, and the money goes to the people that owned the art previously. Either they stick it into an account in the Caymans, or a regular/investment account, or they just have it available, but purchasing assets with it is not money hidden away as an art investment.
A significant amount of wealth may be in assets, but that's the same for most people that's aren't poor (i.e. that own a house). The money used to purchase those assets is still circulating though.
You can take $1 and pay the taxes on it and end up with $0.60. Or you can give away a dollar and not have to pay $0.40 in taxes. But you still gave away a dollar, so you're sixty cents in the hole.
Recognizing what’s important to you and knowing that you have it is what’s actually valuable.
I think it's a cultural thing. In some countries it would be considered very poor taste for someone to pay to get their name on a building. If it's an academic building, I think it makes more sense to name it after someone who contributed to the field. Or it could simply be the "CS building".
Have you seen the halls of the US univerisites?
I'm 99.9999999% certain that no one cares about their name when they're dead.
Given how much weight most folks put in defining themselves through other people...
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I guess Jerry Jones could have named his stadium "Dallas Cowboys Football Stadium" and that would have certainly told you everything you need to know. But instead he called it AT&T stadium and pockets $400 million. Both Jones and AT&T are happy. Same principle applies to colleges and hospitals.
I would much rather someone have something named for them who donated their own wealth than a political party go around stamping their members names everywhere.
I would much rather have the naming of government buildings to be never named for any politician.
If there actually two general hospitals, do what Toronto East General Hospital did, subdivide by location.
Trump Tower, Trump Airlines. Trump Taj Mahal
Oh wait.. NVM
Basic numbers and letters. Building 4, Building C, Building 97, Building Z, etc.