Well all buy things at some point we can't really afford. I just think if I was making 60k a year and move beyond the obsession of fancy sports cars and get into other things with my money. I have a sports car now which is fairly sensible as far as sports cars go, yet hardly sensible in how much I'll have paid for it by the time I've completed my payments.
Sometimes though we don't care about the economic argument. Sometimes you just want a thing that makes you happy. That's all consumerism is. And we have vast powers of rationalization to buy things we can't really afford, yet make us happy.
This summer I took a loan out from my 401k to build a brand new computer. You wouldn't believe the things I said to justify this action. But there's actually not that much dissonance in my head over it today. I love my freaking awesome computer and it was worth the money I took from my retirement fund. Of course, my retirement plan mostly involves moving to Turkey so it's not like I'm totally flying by the seat of my pants here.
I can be quite the enabler when someone asks if they should buy something or not. But usually with computers. "Of course you should buy those two SATA 3 flash drives and RAID your computer! It's an investment man! Future proof that mofo!"
Cars though...they can be so expensive and lose their value so very fast. But as long as you're not seeing it as an investment and instead as a splurge then sure man go for it.
My VW GTI was 26k dollars. It's an awesome car and I love it and I will drive it to the ground until it works no longer.
One thing you're supposed to learn at college (sooner if you're lucky) is to never buy a car on credit. So if you got the cash and you wanna buy yourself a 40k dollar car for some reason then go for it!
Sometimes though we don't care about the economic argument. Sometimes you just want a thing that makes you happy. That's all consumerism is. And we have vast powers of rationalization to buy things we can't really afford, yet make us happy.
This summer I took a loan out from my 401k to build a brand new computer. You wouldn't believe the things I said to justify this action. But there's actually not that much dissonance in my head over it today. I love my freaking awesome computer and it was worth the money I took from my retirement fund. Of course, my retirement plan mostly involves moving to Turkey so it's not like I'm totally flying by the seat of my pants here.
I can be quite the enabler when someone asks if they should buy something or not. But usually with computers. "Of course you should buy those two SATA 3 flash drives and RAID your computer! It's an investment man! Future proof that mofo!"
Cars though...they can be so expensive and lose their value so very fast. But as long as you're not seeing it as an investment and instead as a splurge then sure man go for it.
My VW GTI was 26k dollars. It's an awesome car and I love it and I will drive it to the ground until it works no longer.
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