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    If I had that kind of money I would just get myself a few gokarts and a track. If I wasn’t quite that rich and just normal sports car money l would get a field or some woodland and some quadbikes and dirt bikes.

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    Notice the implied and unquestioned assumption that “life goals” means accumulating resources and not building relationships or contributing to society. In fact, it’s expected that personal relationships and societal responsibilities shall be neglected in the quest for resources.

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    People who are serious about life value long term benefit over short term material goods. Public transportation is a public good for all and in the long term will save you a ton of money.

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        I saw a guy in a Lamborghini just yesterday at the gas station, I remember how it made me feel like less of a man suddenly, and an overwhelming urge to admire and listen to the man driving and respect his opinions.

        Oh wait, no I thought “ugly color” and forgot entirely about it a moment later until this post. I always mix those up.

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      Where’s the line drawn here?

      Like I never like to label all X as Y for a start, but if you own a Porsche are you a wanker? I own a Mercedes I am am I a wanker?

      Is it sports car with little utility? I have many things that make me happy with little utility.

      Edit: Removed the Freudian slip 😦

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        Generally speaking, buying any car that is the median price of a house makes you a wanker driving a wankermobile.

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          Really don’t get this mindset. A doctor can earn enough money to buy a Ferrari and it’s their money to do with as they please.

          My issue is with people with obscene wealth, not rich people who work hard and provide actual value to the world.

          Honestly I find your viewpoint to be quite naive at best and bitterness at worst.

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            I like how you just imagine that it’s a hardworking doctor or your other favorite type of hardworking guy and then you call me naive. 😆

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              Literally met a doctor who owned a Ferrari, it wasn’t a made up thing. To be clear he is a consultant cardiologist.

              In fact when I worked for Apple I met many regular rich people who just have decent lives from value jobs and worked hard.

              If you think single or double digit millionaires are the problem then you’re misguided. The problem is generational wealth or those with hundreds of millions or billions extracting value from the world.

              FYI: A consultant (medical) can earn £100k - £140k per year in the UK. Source Easily enough to finance a Ferrari with low interest or save and buy one, or the shock even lease one.

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                A lot of single or low double digit millionaires are slumlords on the side. It’s much easier to accumulate wealth through capital formation than through hard work. But I’m naive for not believing your anecdata, I know.

                Many of the people flying in to try to overturn the election on January 6th were the single digit millionaire crowd you’re swearing are all great people on the basis of having met a couple.

                I make enough money according to you to drive a Ferrari and lots of others do too. Yet they remain very rare cars. It takes a certain type of wanker to actually buy and drive the stupid fucking thing.

                And while we’re at it, it takes a certain type to defend the hypothetical owners of a stupid meme car.

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        If the first thing you say about it to everyone is how much it cost, you are a wanker.

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    A lot of people I’ve seen in Lamborghini cars aren’t serious about their lives. They’re spoiled idiots who lucked out and got a ton of money handed to them and are driving it around to show off how much money they have as if they deserved it.

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      I have a buddy who wanted a Ferrari and a Lambo since they were a kid. They finally got to the point where they bought the Ferrari only to realize he has a wife and kid. The kid can’t safely ride in the Ferrari for 12+ years and he can’t fit 3 people in the car so he sold it. These aren’t cars for people with normal lives.

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        I’m an enthusiast with no kids (and a vasectomy to make sure it stays that way) and I’ve driven both around a track. Glad to have done it once, but I’m not in any hurry to do it again. Wouldn’t buy either one over my Miata.

        Supercars are vastly overrated.

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          Yeah, that’s my thought, though I have a kid. Doesn’t really matter if I just want to rent one to have fun driving for a bit (other than if she’d find it cool to ride in one). Would be fun for a bit and then a huge liability to own one. Especially with how much attention they’d get. You’d get random butt prints from assholes taking pictures with it, not to mention some others driving nearby will get more aggressive when they see what you’re driving, making accidents more likely. Not to mention everything about it will be very expensive.

          And, at least based on video games, you’d barely ever get out of 1st or 2nd gear in normal driving unless you want to risk getting it seized (or worse) for excessive speeding.

          Also, make one mistake with the throttle and a video of you spinning into a curb or something could go viral if it’s one of the rear drive supercars.

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        If he didn’t realize these things before making the purchase, it would seem like he falls qualifies for the idiot side with a sprinkle of luck.

        By chance was he able to afford it because of inheritance? Only a fool takes that kind of money to splurge on a vehicle and he would then fit exactly into the sot op laid out.

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          Normal mainly implies average.

          The average person has a spouse and a kid. So the statement is not wrong.

          Doesn’t mean you can’t have a normal life without a wife or a kid. It just doesn’t mean average then.

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              The average man has one testicle, the average woman one breast and they both only have one eye.

              There might be some better way of measuring this than a mathematical average, some means of describing the most common grouping in a given cohort, but that’s for smarter men than I.

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            Doesn’t mean you can’t have a normal life without a wife or a kid. It just doesn’t mean average then.

            wait. so normal means average, or normal does not mean average?

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            Its a normative statement. It contributes to alienating people without wives or kids.

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              Only if you take it that way and if you choose to do so that is on you.

              Im the guy who wrote the post. Im an aromantic bisexual, would call that normal? I also have no kids

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                Perhaps I came off as too hostile. I read your comment and I thought it was potentially harmful and I’m incredibly depressed, so I wrote a hasty sniping response. I tend to think of things said as their effects in aggregate rather than the virtue of the person saying it.

                I’m also bi and arguably aromantic. And intend to remain childfree.

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            I consider it normative to suggest that such is “normal” and suggests not having a wife or kid(s) as “abnormal”. At least by implication.

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              Yeah, it’s rather normal to have a wife and progeny, most people do, that’s what normal means. You seem to be fishing for outrage, but you are missing that normal does not imply good, and not normal does not mean bad. Being astoundingly beautiful is not normal, but it’s commonly seen as positive.

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    It’s a great meme, but I do cringe a little bit at the idea of engineers designing the car while already having built most of it.

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      Those engineers just got serious about their lifes. You can crank out way more products if you skip designing them, it is the engineer hustle 🔧😎

      And if they didn’t decide yet, they could always just bolt more seats to the roof.

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    I listened to a really interesting podcast the other day about how the current online alpha male culture, the kind we see propagated by Andrew Tate and co, actually emphasizes an incredibly lonely existence. It’s almost hermitical. Whereas masculinity in the 80’s up through the 2000’s or so was about getting rich, partying in incredibly conspicuous ways, and getting laid all the time.

    This lambo meme (first part) falls right in line with the Tate mentality for sure. There are people who read that and go “yes, that sounds great.”

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      I think the current online alpha male culture is a marketing tool meant to validate the antisocial beliefs of potential customers in order to convert them into paying customers.

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      It’s very likely that it’s all about justification of where someone is more than it is about getting to where someone truly wants to be. Making a lot of positive changes is hard but claiming that you actually really wanted whatever shitty outcome is “easier”.

      In the ‘80s it was about claiming you definitely weren’t buying your friends and, if you were, that was some kind of cool power thing and not horrifically depressing for all parties involved. These days most of the world hates these losers, and for good reason, so they shift the blame away from themselves in a desperate attempt to pretend that they aren’t at fault.

      We’re social animals and we want genuine connection. The alpha males are deeply lonely and angry about it all the time but try soooo hard to pretend they aren’t which only makes them sadder and madder.

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    I fucking hate people that act like they escaped the matrix because they drive a personally owned vehicle.

    Like wow you’re really showing us public transit welfare queens what true independence looks like, gripping a steering wheel in a vehicle they can only legally operate with a government-issued license, on a road built and maintained by the government, cleared of snow by government workers driving government-owned trucks, fueled by government-subsidized oil, and parked in government-funded lots. Let’s not forget they had to go to a government building, talk to a government employee, and pay a government fee just for the privilege of registering their car — which they’re also legally required by the government to insure. And after all that bureaucratic red tape and recurring fees, they have the audacity to act like they’re the icons of self-sufficiency. The cherry on top? If their precious symbol of ‘independence’ breaks down, the government isn’t going to help — they get to shoulder the repair costs entirely on their own.

    Meanwhile, I swipe a card once a month and get access to a system that moves people efficiently, doesn’t ask for my blood type, and doesn’t require me to pour thousands into maintenance and paperwork — and I’m the one supposedly suckling at the teat of Big Government?

    Ok.

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      As someone who owns a vehicle, I feel more like I’ve escaped the matrix when on public transportation than when I’m driving. I still have to have a car to get places public transit won’t go, but I always look forward to the completion of each new station, one more area I don’t have to drive to.

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        I rarely go farther from my home than I can go in a few minutes in my bycicle, so I never felt the need for a car. But once every few months I would need to go somewhere that is two hours away by bus, often with inconvenient bus timings (like either 6am or noon) - so I sometimes take an Uber instead.

        When people her about me taking an Uber for such a “long” trip they call me insane, say that I’m wasting money and I should just get a car and those trips would be much cheaper. They never consider all the other costs involved in owning a car.

        But then after a while people in my town started giving up on Uber and it became hard to find a driver whenever I might need one, so I finally got a driving license and bought myself a bike. People now were like “you’ll see how it changes you, you’ll use it for everything, you’ll go out a lot more often and to everywhere with it”. By the time I had a trip to make it was no longer turning on due to being stuck in a garage for so long. The counter showed less than 20 kilometers when I sold it.

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          You are definitely singing the song of my people. I bought my car when I was working 2 jobs with heavy overtime, and it mattered a lot that I could drive 20 minutes instead of the 1hr bus ride. I put about 20k kilometers on the odometer. Things changed recently, and I’ve found myself doing maintenance on it based on a time schedule rather than distance. I could buy 200 round-trip Uber rides per year for what I’m paying.

          I tried getting into cycling, but there’s a lack of cycle paths and protected bike lanes here. It’s one of those areas that has “sharrows.” Pro tip: drivers do not share the road even with the sharrows.