Saw an old lady getting out of a BMW X7 M60i (the high performance version). I asked her what made her choose the M60i and she just said “I dunno, the salesman said it was the best one they had”.
I often see people driving fast cars like Teslas as if gravity will instantly throw them off the road if they turn the car at faster speeds than 10 mph. They brake like 20 seconds before they are gonna turn, then go slowly slowly towards the street they want to turn in to, then they almost stop and turn the steering wheel.
Not frustrating at all to be behind one of those…
I think some people dont know how gravity works when they are in a car, so they act like they are controlling an oil tanker, just in case.
When I was 38 I finally able to get that sports car I always wanted and my twit of a neighbor who had 6 kids and pregnant with #7 condescendingly said that it was my mid life crises car.
My response was there is no mid life crises there was always a lack of money crises…
Just know, on that day, that neighbour wanted nothing more than to trade spots with you for a week.
Trade for his wife?
The logical correlation would be money is wasted on the rich. Youth --> young : Money --> rich
IOW the idea is about not appreciating what you have (“you don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone”). So young people not appreciating the youth they have is in the same vein as rich people not appreciating the money they have.
Whoever finds a way to convert money into youth is on a winner.
As opposed to the youth into money….
Labour turns youth into money. The young die in factories so the old can live in luxury
Just purchase some blood plasma from young people and inject it.
Two sides of the same coin.
When I was in my 20s I had all the energy and creativity, but couldn’t afford the means to put them to good use.Now in my 40s I have the necessary disposable income, but my energy has been zapped by trying to get on top of this adulting business. I still get a creative burst, but I have to manage my projects so that I can stick to something I’m actually able to complete.
As someone who’s in that first bit and can feel how I’m having to supress those things due to the need to adult, it is so sad
When I was young, I had energy but no money. When I’m older, I’ll have money but no energy. It’s only now in my 30s and 40s that I have… neither. 😔
Could have fooled me: I’m old and have no money
Why couldn’t I have three money and no kids?
Having disposable income these days comes from having the same luck that made boomers millionaires. Not to say it doesn’t involve hard work, but lots of people work hard. The people who get actual compensation for it are either born into it or get very lucky.
Better to have spent your money in your youth when you enjoyed it properly.
I didn’t have money then either.
It’s all relative - if you didn’t have enough money then you would have starved or died of exposure, so good thing you spent it on food and shelter instead of dying? (Or, you spent all your free time growing food and making your own clothing and shelter - how did you pay the taxes on the land then?)
I’m old. What’s money?
I think it’s this pink paper that people use in Canada. Most people never see it. Mostly because Canada is cold.
Money is wasted on the rich and their lavish culture. Don’t be ageist about it.
Neither is a waste, but neither is fair.
The young are paid with youth, while the elderly are paid with currency.
The elderly who are lucky enough to have money they can spend spend an awful lot of it telling youngsters what to do.
I doubt age has anything to do with it. She likely was not begging in the streets when she was young.
Yep, never seen a young person with an expensive car before
Not one that wasn’t given to them by a rich daddy or mommy.
I know many young people with expensive cars and not one was given to them. Not everyone can afford an expensive car but almost anyone can get one if they wish.
It’s technically possible, but an absolutely terrible idea. That mindset will keep them poor in the future. See: $100k truck parked next to trailer home, hemi charger on military base, Range Rover in the hood.
It’s technically possible, but an absolutely terrible idea
This is part of my broader point. Nothing in OP’s story suggests the old lady is actually flush with cash; she just has a bitchin’ car. She could be an idiot who signed on for 45% APR. Seeing someone with a nice car doesn’t mean they’re actually rich.
Define young. Define expensive.
16 year olds in a new custom Lambo? If you know more than one of those who “earned” the money for that, you’ve got an outrageously rare set of acquaintances - or a very distorted view of “earned.”
I bought a brand new Mazda Miata on credit my first week in my first job after University - was that given to me? Maybe the car wasn’t, but the education was.
Yep, never seen a young person buy something that they can’t really afford. Young folks are so wise, patient, and financially literate that it strains my imagination to even entertain the idea of one making poor purchasing decisions.
What doesn’t strain the imagination is banks making loans to foolish young people who are setting themselves up for decades of debt service.
Must be nice to not have been surrounded by trust fund babies…
I was being sarcastic. OP’s shower thought is asinine.
the quote is by George Bernard Shaw
Wisdom is wasted on the old, and youth is wasted on the young
nothing to do with money, everything to do with the accumulated wisdom of years of living and the ignorant confidence of youth.
If you imagine a line graph, there’s supposed to be a crossover point between the two, a sweet spot.
You are the one who ultimately decides when and how large that sweet spot is.
Not really if you have things like medical issues or poverty…
I think the problem is that as we have moved forward from baby boomer generations the overlap in those two lines has gotten smaller and smaller and in Gen Alpha it doesn’t even overlap at all
Remember that joke about men’s midlife crisis, that they’d buy a sports car when they are 40?
It would be fun to ask the men in their 40s around here what they could buy… I’m still not there, but currently I can buy a pizza.Nah.
Some people had influence on it.
But there’s not enough “good” spots left and the nepo babies will always get theirs.
The more wealth inequality worsens, the less social mobility there is. A rich idiot like trump can do literally everything wrong but still wind up on top due to generational inertia.
Meanwhile someone that busts ass their whole life, can barely beat “lifestyle inflation” where they can’t provide the same level of lifestyle for their kids despite being in a higher earners bracket than their parents.
That stall can kill an entire civilizations drive.
If there’s no reward for work, everyone does just enough to not get in trouble. It doesn’t sound like a big deal, because we’re living thru it so it’s “normal”. But it’s also undeniable that it’s not working out well.
When I was a kid, My adults told Me that communism is bad because nobody has an incentive to work hard.
My adults had no idea what was going on.
The purpose of pointless expensive rubbish is to show that you can afford to waste your money on pointless expensive rubbish.
Vehicles like that are wasted on everyone, that’s the point.
