Because they get to show off. Other people see it and they feel bad for not having access to the resources required to do this. And you know what? All of us do this shit in some way or another. Fancy cars, vanity muscles that don’t actually help you, talent in things that have no real practical value, fancy collections, big house. All of us are performing, trying to tell the world “I am so amazing I can afford this waste”. And if we have nothing to brag about we can always brag about our indifference. As if all of us secretly didn’t wish deep down that they had so much money they could spend $2k on what should be 20.
I think you understand it perfectly fine, you just don’t like what it implies about us all.
If you told me your shoes were $50,000 and didn’t follow that with “they also suck your dick” I’d think you were just a moron, not super cool and worthy of emulation.
I don’t think it’s really about the shoes as it is saying “I’ve got so much money I can overpay this much on shoes and still make it to this dinner party instead of spending my time wondering how I’ll eat or make rent”. Maybe combined with a curiosity about what kind of shoes 50k will get you.
Because they get to show off. Other people see it and they feel bad for not having access to the resources required to do this. And you know what? All of us do this shit in some way or another. Fancy cars, vanity muscles that don’t actually help you, talent in things that have no real practical value, fancy collections, big house. All of us are performing, trying to tell the world “I am so amazing I can afford this waste”. And if we have nothing to brag about we can always brag about our indifference. As if all of us secretly didn’t wish deep down that they had so much money they could spend $2k on what should be 20.
I think you understand it perfectly fine, you just don’t like what it implies about us all.
I don’t even know why anyone is impressed by it.
If you told me your shoes were $50,000 and didn’t follow that with “they also suck your dick” I’d think you were just a moron, not super cool and worthy of emulation.
that’s where you’re going wrong.
I don’t think it’s really about the shoes as it is saying “I’ve got so much money I can overpay this much on shoes and still make it to this dinner party instead of spending my time wondering how I’ll eat or make rent”. Maybe combined with a curiosity about what kind of shoes 50k will get you.
It’s terrible isn’t it?
That are only options are being superior or inferior or lying about our indifference? I guess.