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”.
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”.
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.