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Same. I seem to consider them a Rube Goldberg machine that people use to indicate status. I was partly reading the comments here to see what I'm missing. I'm su

• eo3x0 9y ago
  Anyone who buys a watch for the status is going to be disappointed. A $200,000 car will get you laid quick. A $200,000 watch wouldn't get noticed except by geeks you wouldn't want to bed down anyway. Fortunately, in 10 years, at least the latter will still be worth roughly just as much if not more while the former would be depreciated to less than half the value if that.
• craigsmansion 9y ago
  By the same rationale, bikes could be considered a Rube Goldberg machine that people use to indicate status. Maybe not extreme wealth, but signalling physical fitness, plenty of leisure time, disposable income, etc. Of course that's probably not the case with you. It's likely you personally have deeper motivations than simply indicating status. That's why it's called actor-observer bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor%E2%80%93observer_asymmetry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor%E2%80%93observer_asymmet... I'm not trying to corner you here, and I hope you see how these explanations of the situations are the same except in one case you're the actor, in the other you're the observer.