[yubblegum]

You need to prove to us that modesty is an absolute quality. Reasonable people would agree that that is a bit extreme ("immodest") and that modesty is relative. (Try cheap instead of modest to see how this works.)

> There's no way in which a $6 million dollar house is "modest".

Relative to his wealth bracket he is being modest but not cheap.

[bigstrat2003]

No reasonable person would call a $6m purchase "modest".

[yubblegum]

I'm reasonable and I say it is. You are looking at a number, I'm looking at possessions. For example, he could have bought the entire building but he is sharing it with two other owners. A modest man.

[JumpCrisscross]

Modesty has to be relative, otherwise anything beyond the lowest cost to feed a starving person on the planet is beyond modesty.

[xandrius]

Bezos' wedding in Venice was modest* too then.

[kelnos]

> Relative to his wealth bracket he is being modest but not cheap.

That's moving the goalposts. No one said anything about "relative to his wealth bracket".

And I don't think I have ever heard anyone using a term like "modest house" in proportion to someone's wealth. House-modesty is something people generally use to mean "when compared with other houses in the region".

[Redoubts]

> No one said anything about "relative to his wealth bracket".

Original post was "modest for a guy like that"