So apparently the way it works is that you either have no money at all, or a Ferrari for every day of the week, and there’s no possible in between?
What if I just have top of the range Mercedes money, will I be happy then?
In my city, there’s a guy who owns a local gun store chain. (Or maybe owned—I dunno, he was old in the 90s, he’s probably not around anymore.) He’s locally infamous for his crazy white hair and his creepy chuckle on TV commercials where he says “I don’t wanna make any money, I just love to sell guns. Heh heh heh.”
Anyway, one day I was driving home and I saw him in the flesh. He was driving a pretty expensive convertible, with his distinctive white hair and a vanity plate with his name on it. I pulled up beside him at a stop light, and he looked like the saddest, most depressed person I’ve ever seen. Not in a personal tragedy way, just in a life sucks way.
It’s tough to feel sorry for him. He’s clearly quite rich, and he made that money selling death machines. But that look of being dead inside, on a face I only ever associated with that creepy chuckle, driving a luxury vehicle, has stuck with me.
There’s a lot of lead around guns and ammo and shooting. A lifetime of exposure…
Don’s been gone for over a decade at this point.
That makes sense. This was probably in the mid-00s or early 10s.
Money cannot buy happiness. What it can do is give you the means to remove barriers to happiness.
The richer you are, the more you put on airs to seem like everything is okay. It’s the same way people will put “look at my amazing vacation” with happy amazing photos, and never mention that they all but got in a fistfight with their spouse.
This isn’t universal, but it’s what you’ll notice if you pay closer attention.
The top person is standing in front of a Lamborghini. Money apparently can’t buy education either.
stupid people are generally hapier
“ill boohoo grande”
Money doesn’t make you happy, but it sure as hell gets rid of the stuff that makes you sad.
So if I had money, I could make all the bigots that harass my friends and I for being queer disappear?
No, but you could all move to a less bigoted area with money. Or even build your own village.
With enough money: yes
What a myopic response.
You almost never see anyone happy in a Ferrari either. Look inside one and you’ll see someone with the same blank expression that you see on everyone driving and anyone on the bus. Despite what car commercials drill into your head no car will change that meh feeling.
To an extent, yes. But that’s because you can’t use the car for its intended purpose at a stoplight or grid of roads. I guarantee you when that driver takes his car to the curvy mountain roads he is grinning ear to ear, or having a hell of a time at the very least.
Yeah, this dude has never spent time behind the wheel of a nice sports car. Shit is sooooo fun.
Even a shitty sports car is a blast. I had a lot of fun in my manual BRZ.
A manual BRZ is far from a shitty sports car. Hell, it’s more agile than a lot of $100K+ ones.
A shitty sports car is like… an old Saturn Sky? Or older.
Oh I drove a Saturn sky and wrecked it. That car was fun but I was too young to properly gauge its quality.
You’re right, BRZs are excellent handlers. I just… hated the torque dip so much. I also didn’t like the boxer 4 it had; squeaky even in optimal conditions.
Yeah. They don’t sell it with a better engine because it would embarrrass more expensive cars, kinda like the Porsche boxster/cayman (which whispers handle better than the 911).
Old Miatas were like that too :(. Though I don’t know what Mazda’s excuse is these days, as the Miata is their top sports car?
When I moved away after high school my parents sold the old Volvo station wagon I was driving, decided the newer Volvo wagon my mom had been driving would be what my younger siblings would drive, and with strong encouragement from my younger brother, my mom picked up a used Boxster thinking that she’d never have to do the carpool line again. This was after the dot-com bubble burst and there was a surplus of used Porsches for relatively cheap. Somehow they found one as an automatic transmission back then, but it was still the best car I’ve ever driven as far as the handling goes. I loved the GTI I bought later, but that Boxster was a different level. At the speed limit it was almost like the car was steering itself because it was so effortless, and it was easy to go double the posted speed limit without realizing it if there weren’t other cars around.
I have an older 911 and that is just fun to drive. It’s just a fancy go-kart. My little Grom is also a blast to ride.
Between 250-400bhp depending on weight is the sweet spot IMO. I’ve got an old 996 and it’s so much fun away from traffic.
Initially yes, and they were probably grinning ear to ear when they first bought it, just like we were all grinning ear to ear when we first drove by ourselves, but once the novelty and excitement wear off it goes back to the meh face.
It’s like skiing/snowboarding, the first couple times you go down a run your having a great time, but once it doesn’t become a challenge then it loses its excitement and fun. With skiing though theres a lot more elements of variation (trees, bumps, jumps, narrow trails, grade variations, snow conditions …) to keep things interesting whereas driving roads can only vary with curves and grades, both of which are in a much narrower band of variation for safety reasons.
There’s a reason tons of people spend tons of money every year going skiing but not too many people are renting super cars to go and drive around the hills.
Perhaps you’re right. Anecdotally, though, I loved every second of the two years I spent in my coupe.
I was deeply confused to see a bunch of Ferraris outside of some huge institution in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island. Take a high performance vehicle and put it in the most tightly packed, narrow, curvy-street urban area in America with the possible exception of Boston. Why don’t you go ahead and take a snowmobile to Hawaii, while you’re at it.
This is such an over rated trope and coping mechanism 🤣
evErY rICh peRSoN is SAD!
Not what they said, read it again 😊
I feel confident that plenty of Ferraris have caused their owners a great deal of sadness, along with joy
Probably hasn’t been in a lot if Ferraris then
Charles catching strays on Lemmy, too? Ugh lol
Money can’t buy happiness, but it sure can help. Funny line, but it’s also true that much of people’s stress that filters into relationships and health is money related.
Exactly. Money buys breathing space, and that’s essential for actually building things to be happy about in one’s life
“Money can’t buy happiness, but it sure gives you a much better bargaining position.”
Money cant buy Happiness, but given the choice I’d rather do my crying in a Bentley.
“I’ve never seen anyone sad in a Ferrari. In fact, I’ve never seen anyone in a Ferrari, I’ve only seen the Ferrari as I pass by the dealership showroom.”
Lamborghinis, on the other hand… I once saw a farmer driving his Lambo tractor truck! And while I didn’t get a good look at his face, it was still awesome.
Money can buy you a lack of poverty which eliminates a main but not the only barrier to happiness.
Poor Charles
Poor Charles
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