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[–] DannyBoy 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I'm going to put maintenance costs aside here for a minute, but from what I've heard the V8 manual R8s are pretty reliable.

But I can find two R8s within distance of me for $100,000 CAD. Driving one of these around, everyone thinks you're a rich showoff. But drive around in a Denali Ultimate pickup (starts at $107k) or a F150 Platinum (starts at $103k) and nobody thinks twice. For work I understand an expensive truck, but these people who drive to their office job, I don't see how a flashy sports car is seen as extravagant but a new pickup truck is normal.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

I'm sure they have some use in mountainous countries or areas without roads etc, but in the UK, both of those ridiculous, fat micro-lorries would also be seen as extravagant and flashy - possibly even more so than a sports car.

They didn't seem to even exist ten years ago, and (to my knowledge) no new mountains or volcanoes have sprung up in the UK since, so I'm pretty sure for most cases a normal van would work, and it would fit in a parking space :)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I like how they've obfuscated the number plate of a bright yellow Audi covered in graffiti so no one can ID it.

Also, has he tried simply covering it up?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago

Simply add the words "olive oil" and people will think you're Filippo Berio!

[–] [email protected] 63 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

"Even if you are doing something good in life, there is a lot of hate. I don’t really have any enemies, I think a lot of people just can’t see someone young, do good. I have a supercar at 20, they can’t put up with it."

Bro is trading crypto and thinking he's a modern hero. I hope someone tags the car again when it's cleaned.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe it's the "Superman does good. You are doing well." situation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

That sounds appropriate here.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 hours ago

Doing good would be donating that money to a good cause, not buying a salesmans super car in attention seeking yellow.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

"it’s not much of a loss for me, I make £6-7,000 in my sleep."

Whereas most people would need to work full time for three or four months, whilst being very much awake, to make the same amount, you vile, immoral parasite.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

When Wasseem was just pushing 19-years-old he hit his first £1 million after trading currencies, social media work, real estate and other avenues.

So, lucky trades, crypto(?), then - presumably - slum lord of some description.

Truly the cream of the crop.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Yep that's exactly where I'm at.

I never understand where these people just obtain their free money glitch. I work hard and can barely sustain things even with absurdly cheap rent.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I mean he's probably lying. But with enough money and enough lack of morality you can still make money pumping and dumping shit coins, I'm sure.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

with enough money

There's the problem lol, every time I think about trying to start investing I realize how little money it would make because of how little I have spare to invest.

Maybe a bad way to look at it but it just feels hopeless

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Side note.

Back in 1960, minimum wage was $1.00/hour and a new Jaguar was about $6,000.00

If a minimum wage worker really wanted one, he could buy a supercar. $1.00 x 40 x 52 =2,080. Three years ot buy the car.

$15.00 x 40 x 52 = 31,000. Ten years work to buy that car.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 hours ago

Three years of not paying tax or buying food, but I get your point

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

Back in 1960 this story is in the UK and we were never paid in dollars.

If a minimum wage worker wanted a jaguar his mam would have clipped him round the ear and told him to get a grip.

Edit: there's some confusion that I've conflated minimum wage with teenagers... But here. In the North of England, we still have multigenerational houses in the working class... And more than that. If I act like a dafty, my Mam would still happily travel across town to clip me and I'm an old man.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

If a minimum wage worker wanted a jaguar his mam would have clipped him round the ear and told him to get a grip.

That's a bit beside the point, innit? Whether the wealth inequality started high enough that it was unattainable then, it's surely a bigger gap now, right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

That's rather debatable.

The gap is different.

The idea of blowing a monthly subscription on a piece of technology (in the 60s this would have been something like a TV set from Radio rentals) Vs a mobile phone subscription today.

Most working class folk I know have a phone and that's because it is a social necessity (as well as a practical work necessity in many cases).

I was speaking to the notion of how working class folk did, and still do, value the notions of personal austerity and responsibility.

Like, one thing a working class lad done good would always seem to do is to pay off his folk's mortgage or help them retire. I'm pretty sure the kid in this example did too (at least I'd hope they maybe did). But to be driving a fancy car on an estate still comes across as showy, classless, and a certain target for people to want them to be put in their place.

I'm not condoning this, by the way.

Going back to whether the gap is bigger, we would have to find a constant metric to measure that gap with. Inflation is not enough, not are possessive markers. Quality of life, access to healthcare, life expectancy, they all give variable results, enough to say only that it is different.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I like the way you buy into the myth that the only people who make minimum wage are teenagers.

That's a mythical myth that isn't true. Hence, calling it a myth.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

I like the way you assume that anyone in the UK who has a mam that would clip them is a teenager.

You made a massive assumption on how the working class lives here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Well yeah, gotta denigrate the youth so we can ignore systemic problems.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I know Lemmy hates rich people but am I the only one who thinks this is too much?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Nah, I don't particularly care about property damage to wealthy people. They have plenty and it gets money back into the community they're stealing their wealth from. Especially when on a societal level, they care about property more than people.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Nah, it's fine. As another commenter pointed out, owner said so himself:

it’s not much of a loss for me, I make £6-7,000 in my sleep.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I mean the guy is an arrogant prick, but still, just... why?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago

The "virgin" feels targeted so "the guy is an arrogant prick" is a good candidate for your why.

However even it was just opportunistic tagging of someone's conspicuous show of wealth, I'm definitely not against people becoming aware of how their community sees them as compared to how their Instagram following sees them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago