Agreed. The sort of critique in this article feels a little stale. It's easy to convince someone that buying luxury cars is wasteful status-signaling. It's not

Agreed. The sort of critique in this article feels a little stale. It's easy to convince someone that buying luxury cars is wasteful status-signaling. It's not so easy to convince me that raising kids in a safe neighborhood with good schools is wasteful, or that it is getting any cheaper to do so, or the consequences of failing to do so are getting any better.