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Re:The Psychology of Money by ACow_Adonis on Monday June 04, 2018 @05:51AM (#17226162)
Look at it this way: conspicuous displays of wealth are very cheap signals for the rational members of the human race to pick out what we call, in technical sociological language, "wankers".

Indeed, nice cars say to me: "there's a moron who lacks taste/perspective, and probably is really bad at managing their life and money. They probably have large amounts of debt and leverage.".

You can call me judgmental, but its an infinitely better attitude to take than anything approaching admiration/jealousy.

Re:The Psychology of Money by nunya213 on Monday June 04, 2018 @11:50AM (#17229058)
Yeah the guy in a 1982 Volvo spewing black smoke and rusting to pieces is obviously more financially savvy and responsible than someone driving a BMW.
Re:The Psychology of Money by duwease on Monday June 04, 2018 @12:46PM (#17229681)
Luckily for his point there are the other hundreds of millions of reliable cars on the spectrum between a broken one and a premium one!