• ExtremeDullard@piefed.social
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    4 months ago

    Whoever posted this doesn’t understand wealth.

    Wealth isn’t having enough money to buy a large house or an expensive car: it’s having enough money to hire employees to maintain your large house, or keeping your expensive car on the road, and paying taxes or both of them - or paying an accountant to dodge the taxes.

    I knew a guy in the UK in the 90’s. He was a rent-a-cop, and his dream was to own a Lamborghini Countach. He put an ungodly amount of money on the side every month, and one day he had saved up enough to buy a used specimen of his dream car. Two months later, he needed to change the brake pads on all 4 wheels. That cost £20,000. He parked his pride and joy in his garage and then went back to riding the bus.

    He managed to get a wealthy man’s toy, but he wasn’t a wealthy man so he couldn’t actually afford to enjoy his toy.