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Fair point. What about cars or houses?
by giwook 5mo ago
Fair point.
What about cars or houses?
- shaftway 5mo agoThat fancy Lamborghini is going to be sitting in the same traffic as my Honda.
- skeeter2020 5mo agono - it will be getting very expensive servicing while you're enjoying 200K+ trouble-free miles
- Our_Benefactors 5mo agoWhich is of course entirely besides the point. While it’s receiving service the owner will be in their Honda accord (they drive it daily), but they will always have the top trim and will probably get a new one once it’s out of warranty and needs its first “real entropy” repair. Being rich is better than being poor. The Warhol quote has nothing to do with that fact.
- wing-_-nuts 5mo ago>Being rich is better than being poor. As someone who started out very poor, and is now ~ 30x above that. I strongly subscribe to the idea that happiness from income is very logarithmic. The first 2-3x income was life changing. I'm talking going from eating pasta, rice and beans for most meals to fresh fruit and veg, lean cuts of meat. From renting a room in a noisy apartment with 4 other people to having my own place that was both safe and quiet. My reading list was suddenly more constrained by time instead of price or library backlog. I suppose it's down to my starting position, a content disposition and a boring lack of imagination, but my expenses have now ~ 5x'd what they were when I was on the strugglebus, but still very modest, and I honestly can't identify any spending that would make my life better or make me happier long term.
- zeroonetwothree 5mo agoIt’s very true. When I got my first apartment on my own I was living on $3000/month (today’s dollars adjusted for inflation). Now I live on $20k and I can’t say there’s many things better about my day to day. I seem to spend a lot on things that don’t matter that much :(
- FartinMowler 5mo agoI'm reminded of the Polish proverb that it's better to be rich & healthy than sick & poor.
- butlike 5mo agoBut it's not expensive to the person getting it serviced. Finance becomes a matter of perspective at a certain level, I imagine. You buy the Lambo because it's fun to drive, you buy the clothing with the most 000's at the end of the price because it's most likely the best. It's not 'expensive,' it's just... why would you take anything less than the best everytime?
- tyre 5mo ago> you buy the clothing with the most 000's at the end of the price because it's most likely the best This is very rarely the case. For tailored or custom clothing, sure, but that doesn’t end up being the most expensive. Silly designer brands with lower quality do.
- bartvk 5mo agoYou're equals in that regard, but try riding a motorcycle one day. I live in a country where lanesplitting is legal. There's nothing quite like getting passed by an extremely expensive car, and then at the traffic lights, cut in front of it.
- zeroonetwothree 5mo agoIt feels great until you die.
- GJim 5mo agoSo do most nice things in life old boy. [Honda Fireblade: throttle open and in the red, eyes closed and smiling.]
- jancsika 5mo agoSounds like an evolutionary advantage adapted by the Toxoplasma gondii in your brain to more efficiently deliver you to the big ghost cat in the sky.
- shaftway 5mo agoYeah, I switched to a bike too. Way better quality of life, and lane splitting is a godsend. In my area not allowing a bike to pass is actually a ticketable offense (though I've never actually heard of anyone getting a ticket for it). Either way, the cars know what to expect and the cars in the left-most lane hug the left side of the lane to give you room.
- fragmede 5mo agoNot in LA/socal. The secret is out. There's a bunch of underground tunnels that rich and well connected people can use, that the little people can not.
- butlike 5mo agoIs this actually true cause it reads like STRAIGHT paranoia. I imagine those tunnels are owned by the illuminati, right?
- Smoosh 5mo agoWhy do you think musk was all about the small private tunnels for transportation but then he blabbed to the public and was forced to go quiet? /s
- scottyah 5mo agoAs opposed to New York where they just take helicopters
- patmorgan23 5mo agoUnless they pay for the express lanes
- fragmede 5mo agoYeah, those are obnoxious and a fundamental undermining of America, imo.
- scottyah 5mo agoThank you! I don't get how many people are just accepting of them. I do hate the pay-to-play lanes ones, but the ones I faced driving out in Illinois where there's no viable alternative and you have to produce exact change are crazy, should be illegal.
- brewdad 5mo agoThe owner can afford to use the HOT lane at any price.
- krige 5mo agoIt's going to be sitting here in my garage in hollywood hills. (and seven more lamborghinis in my lamborghini account) In other words, it's still perceived as a sign of status.
- red-iron-pine 5mo agothe lambo is a toy. the people who have the real money are flying in private jets.
- Smoosh 5mo agoAs is that “off road adventure 4x4”, yet people still buy them.
- Petersipoi 5mo ago> no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking Doesn't the fact that the original quote literally acknowledges "bums on the corner" imply that he wasn't referring to housing at all?
- trollbridge 5mo agoI have found the Coke machines at Costco to always have a perfect mixture.
- throwway120385 5mo ago“If you raise (the price of the) effing hot dog, I will kill you”
- scottyah 5mo agoIn n Out is my favorite Coke. I think Costco and Chick Fil A are tied despite being pretty different.
- queuebert 5mo agoA Tesla will out accelerate all but the most niche cars now. Even the cheapest cars can have giant screens and climate control. I don't think they are equal to a Rolls Royce, but extreme luxury has greater diminishing returns now than at any point in history. Where I live pretty much all new houses are being built with granite counter tops and hardwood floors. Whether that's a good thing is a whole other topic ...
- hn_acc1 5mo ago>A Tesla will out accelerate all but the most niche cars now. Claims presented without evidence. My slightly modified Subaru Wagon from '05 "out-accelerated" base Teslas - dead even in 1st gear, started pulling once the shift to 2nd happened. (Most) EVs cannot shift gears to get torque multiplication, so they start fast, but fall off as speeds get higher. My Kia gas car will outrun all but the model 3 performance - which the average person is NOT driving. Neither of those cars are "niche".
- Kirby64 5mo ago> My slightly modified Subaru Wagon from '05 "out-accelerated" base Teslas - dead even in 1st gear, started pulling once the shift to 2nd happened. Slightly modified is doing some heavy lifting there. No 2005 Subaru wagon in stock config is anywhere close to beating a Model 3. > (Most) EVs cannot shift gears to get torque multiplication, so they start fast, but fall off as speeds get higher. Pretty much irrelevant, because they’re still blisteringly fast up to 60 which is where most of the acceleration happens in day to day. Nobody really cares about 60-80 or 60-100. > My Kia gas car will outrun all but the model 3 performance - which the average person is NOT driving. What Kia is that? Even the stinger GT (which is definitely a niche car) is slower than a regular dual motor model 3.
- sfn42 5mo agoAnother reason it's irrelevant is you just don't need the accel. Flooring a Tesla is fun once or twice, but if you floor it every chance you get I don't want to be your passenger. It's neither comfortable nor safe.
- fragmede 5mo agoThe real question is what about toilets. You'd think they're all the same, but a $700 Toto bidet with a heated seat that cleans your butthole with warm water is a better experience than using toilet paper.
- bayindirh 5mo agoPersonally I don't envy an "high-end" car (RR, McLaren, Ferrari, Porsche, etc.), or a big mansion which needs a horde of people to run. I personally developed a feeling for things which are at the edge of "diminishing returns" curve. I get the things which are high-end enough, but not in the "pay 3x more to get 1% more" region.
- scottyah 5mo agoI agree, but will say that having a well-built house in a great area is extremely expensive, especially if you happen to like walkable cities along the southern California coast.
- bayindirh 5mo agoA well built house doesn't have to be big, needs multiple staff on payroll, or come with a pool. Buying high quality things is a thing, but buying things just because they are high end and flashy is something else. If I failed to convey what I tried to say in my first comment, let me give another examples. Personally, I'll pay pretty penny for a bass guitar, if its build quality and features is worth it, not because of hype or it's a signature model of someone else's. I'll buy a high end computer or a car with all (meaningful) options installed, not because I want to show off but I'll need the features or processing power. I buy high end audio gear (for listening or recording), not because to brag about it but to use it. And when I buy these things, I use them until they run out of steam, not until they're out of fashion.
- stbede 5mo agoI probably have a better house in Utah than many Silicon Valley CEOs have in the Bay Area, but they have better weather.