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Anonymous wrote:Have people test driven or been in nicer, newer cars recently? There is a huge difference feature and comfort wise in what some people have. I understand not spending $75k on a new car but the number of people mentioning not so great or outdated cars is surprising. Car safety has also evolved in the last decade plus.

+1. The amount of advancement in safety features alone makes owning a newer car a no brainer. I can’t imagine making this much money and not driving newer cars. Safety > frugality

Agreed. Many posters on DCUM love to humblebrag about making $2M per year while saving $1M of it, living in a townhouse, and driving 17 year old automobiles and then flaunt these false sacrifices as veritable badges of honor. It’s all just pointless virtue signaling, though, that either reveals sheer stupidity or demonstrates an ignorant inability to optimize forward progression relative to available resources.

Seriously, what kind of moron makes $2M per year and plans to die with $100s of millions left over instead of overseeing distribution to charitable causes during their lifetime?!? What kind of loser makes $1M per year and drives a 10-year old car instead of gifting that car to a truly LMC family and buying themselves a new one? And that lower cost townhouse? Yeah, thanks for stealing away a low cost property in McLean and forcing someone who can’t afford anything more to live in the next available property out in Manassas!!

So....in your mind rich people must be charitable? How do you think they got rich? It wasn't by giving money away. I'm my favorite charity. I keep the old car because that is my charity to me. The government takes a huge cut of my money in the form of taxes and redistributed that to services that help the poor. That's my charity. I'm not Trump; I pay my taxes.

No, only ethical and honorable rich people tend to be charitable. I understand that the majority of well-heeled individuals – such as yourself, perhaps – are disgustingly greedy and selfish. Your taxes paid are not a charity. This is your obligation to society as minimal compensation for your deceitful way of life.

What exactly is deceitful about EARNING lots of money? How do you get to rich people=dishonest? What is unethical about not giving to charity? You're confusing! I think it is unethical to expect handout or to expect others to give money that is not earned, especially if you are able bodied and sound mind. You make no sense; must be why you're still poor.

We’re all capable of earning lots of money…in theory. In practice, though, the privileged few are the only ones allowed entry into the club. The rest of us are held back, forced to earn a fraction of what’s possible. People like you are born into comfort, have all their college and graduate school expenses paid by family, are gifted generous sums to buy first homes, and then have the audacity to pat themselves on the back for earning their way to the top.

If you’re not giving back to charity, you’re just propagating that privilege forward. So blind you don’t even see it.

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Anonymous wrote:Have people test driven or been in nicer, newer cars recently? There is a huge difference feature and comfort wise in what some people have. I understand not spending $75k on a new car but the number of people mentioning not so great or outdated cars is surprising. Car safety has also evolved in the last decade plus.

+1. The amount of advancement in safety features alone makes owning a newer car a no brainer. I can’t imagine making this much money and not driving newer cars. Safety > frugality

Agreed. Many posters on DCUM love to humblebrag about making $2M per year while saving $1M of it, living in a townhouse, and driving 17 year old automobiles and then flaunt these false sacrifices as veritable badges of honor. It’s all just pointless virtue signaling, though, that either reveals sheer stupidity or demonstrates an ignorant inability to optimize forward progression relative to available resources.

Seriously, what kind of moron makes $2M per year and plans to die with $100s of millions left over instead of overseeing distribution to charitable causes during their lifetime?!? What kind of loser makes $1M per year and drives a 10-year old car instead of gifting that car to a truly LMC family and buying themselves a new one? And that lower cost townhouse? Yeah, thanks for stealing away a low cost property in McLean and forcing someone who can’t afford anything more to live in the next available property out in Manassas!!

So....in your mind rich people must be charitable? How do you think they got rich? It wasn't by giving money away. I'm my favorite charity. I keep the old car because that is my charity to me. The government takes a huge cut of my money in the form of taxes and redistributed that to services that help the poor. That's my charity. I'm not Trump; I pay my taxes.

No, only ethical and honorable rich people tend to be charitable. I understand that the majority of well-heeled individuals – such as yourself, perhaps – are disgustingly greedy and selfish. Your taxes paid are not a charity. This is your obligation to society as minimal compensation for your deceitful way of life.

What exactly is deceitful about EARNING lots of money? How do you get to rich people=dishonest? What is unethical about not giving to charity? You're confusing! I think it is unethical to expect handout or to expect others to give money that is not earned, especially if you are able bodied and sound mind. You make no sense; must be why you're still poor.

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Anonymous wrote:HHI: $1.2-2M depending on the market

I drive a 2018 KIA Sorento. Depending on distance, when I go out of town, I drive my KIA to Manassas airport where my 2007 Cirrus SR22-G3 GTS is hangared and fly that to my destination. I don't particularly care for highway traffic no matter what car I'm driving in.

This one mostly makes sense to me. You can get a very comfortable and loaded Sorento that is only 5-6 years old with nearly all the bells and whistles (and safety features) of a new luxury car.
The plane, although it is older, is a little odd. The plane owners I know tend to drive very nice cars (not surprising given planes are signs of wealth versus just HHI and since both high-end cars and planes are luxury assets that depreciate quickly).

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Anonymous wrote:Have people test driven or been in nicer, newer cars recently? There is a huge difference feature and comfort wise in what some people have. I understand not spending $75k on a new car but the number of people mentioning not so great or outdated cars is surprising. Car safety has also evolved in the last decade plus.

+1. The amount of advancement in safety features alone makes owning a newer car a no brainer. I can’t imagine making this much money and not driving newer cars. Safety > frugality

Agreed. Many posters on DCUM love to humblebrag about making $2M per year while saving $1M of it, living in a townhouse, and driving 17 year old automobiles and then flaunt these false sacrifices as veritable badges of honor. It’s all just pointless virtue signaling, though, that either reveals sheer stupidity or demonstrates an ignorant inability to optimize forward progression relative to available resources.

Seriously, what kind of moron makes $2M per year and plans to die with $100s of millions left over instead of overseeing distribution to charitable causes during their lifetime?!? What kind of loser makes $1M per year and drives a 10-year old car instead of gifting that car to a truly LMC family and buying themselves a new one? And that lower cost townhouse? Yeah, thanks for stealing away a low cost property in McLean and forcing someone who can’t afford anything more to live in the next available property out in Manassas!!

So....in your mind rich people must be charitable? How do you think they got rich? It wasn't by giving money away. I'm my favorite charity. I keep the old car because that is my charity to me. The government takes a huge cut of my money in the form of taxes and redistributed that to services that help the poor. That's my charity. I'm not Trump; I pay my taxes.

No, only ethical and honorable rich people tend to be charitable. I understand that the majority of well-heeled individuals – such as yourself, perhaps – are disgustingly greedy and selfish. Your taxes paid are not a charity. This is your obligation to society as minimal compensation for your deceitful way of life.

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Anonymous wrote:Have people test driven or been in nicer, newer cars recently? There is a huge difference feature and comfort wise in what some people have. I understand not spending $75k on a new car but the number of people mentioning not so great or outdated cars is surprising. Car safety has also evolved in the last decade plus.

+1. The amount of advancement in safety features alone makes owning a newer car a no brainer. I can’t imagine making this much money and not driving newer cars. Safety > frugality

Yeah seriously puzzled by this. Weird humble brags here.

What are these amazing automotive safety tech advances over the last 10 years??

Anonymous wrote:HHI: $1.2-2M depending on the market

I drive a 2018 KIA Sorento. Depending on distance, when I go out of town, I drive my KIA to Manassas airport where my 2007 Cirrus SR22-G3 GTS is hangared and fly that to my destination. I don't particularly care for highway traffic no matter what car I'm driving in.

Anonymous wrote:I drive my deceased grandmother’s Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser. We are very practical and careful with our money and cars are just so frivolous and unnecessary. The Cruiser does just fine getting my two kids to Sidwell and if I’m at the club playing tennis and the nanny needs to borrow it, she simply drives me up there and I have a quick drink at the bar after my private lesson until she brings my children for swim practice.

We were forced to rent a car when we traveled to California to visit Napa Valley. It was nearly brand new! What would people thinking flashing this sort of luxury around!? We didn’t want to seem like spend thrifts, so we parked around the corner and walked to our reservation at French Laundry. Fortunately, our ski trip to Zermatt, they don’t allow cars in the village at all, so we were not confronted with this discomfort.

We make nearly 1M a year, but in DC this is basically middle class. I just don’t understand how people afford extravagances such as cars - we barely have any money left over!

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Anonymous wrote:Have people test driven or been in nicer, newer cars recently? There is a huge difference feature and comfort wise in what some people have. I understand not spending $75k on a new car but the number of people mentioning not so great or outdated cars is surprising. Car safety has also evolved in the last decade plus.

+1. The amount of advancement in safety features alone makes owning a newer car a no brainer. I can’t imagine making this much money and not driving newer cars. Safety > frugality

Agreed. Many posters on DCUM love to humblebrag about making $2M per year while saving $1M of it, living in a townhouse, and driving 17 year old automobiles and then flaunt these false sacrifices as veritable badges of honor. It’s all just pointless virtue signaling, though, that either reveals sheer stupidity or demonstrates an ignorant inability to optimize forward progression relative to available resources.

Seriously, what kind of moron makes $2M per year and plans to die with $100s of millions left over instead of overseeing distribution to charitable causes during their lifetime?!? What kind of loser makes $1M per year and drives a 10-year old car instead of gifting that car to a truly LMC family and buying themselves a new one? And that lower cost townhouse? Yeah, thanks for stealing away a low cost property in McLean and forcing someone who can’t afford anything more to live in the next available property out in Manassas!!

Anonymous wrote:We just upgraded to a really nice new Toyota Forerunner for me, and my husband a Porsche Cayenne turbo. He also owns three Porsche 911s and a Mercedes GT2 coupé, what Can i say, we have the garage space for that and our kids’ little all terrain mini keeps they love to drive all over the backyard and, well, the heart wants what it wants. Our retirement, savings and college accounts are all funded, house and investment properties are paid off, and we feel very grateful.