Quote from: xxxxxzzzzz on February 21, 2016, 05:01:44 PM

Quote from: bargainbin on February 21, 2016, 04:11:40 PM

Quote from: xxxxxzzzzz on February 21, 2016, 03:11:11 PM

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Yeah I dunno I've never really understood that kind of greed. It's like you can only drive 1 car at a time right so I don't want a red, orange, yellow, and black lambo (though it would be nice to have 1). Actually come to think of it life is pretty fine for me I do own my house and my bmw and usually sit on my ass all day trading bitcoin in my pajamas and listening to music or just do whatever I feel like with my time. Hmmm maybe I'm rich enough already to be happy and ought to just give up this bitcoin thing ? naaaahhhhh Grin

Lambos are to cars what a porn stars are to sex -- ridiculous, showy, would be embarrassed to be seen in one.
Car freaks I know drive shitboxen/really boring "grown up" cars for daily drivers -- people who race modded P-51s are probably no different -- probably drive something lame too. I mean, if you fly @ 500mph a few feet off the ground, an occasional 180mph blip on the highway won't be much of a rush.
It's not about conspicuous consumption.

The people with money I know aren't necessarily greedy -- they're often stingy, to the point where I wind up adding to the tip when we go out for lunch (because they figured it out *to the penny*). They're into money the same [personal, irrational] way I like '50s to '70s mechanical things that go fast. They don't need the money they make, I don't need to fuck with weird cars so they would handle a hair better & go a few mph faster. Money's not a means to get something else for them, it's an end in itself -- no different than obsessing about weird cars/bikes/toob gear/BTC/old guitars.
Just something they like.

Oh yeah I don't think I'd ever own a lambo I was just using that as an example of an expensive unnecessary thing a greedy person might want. I'd rather have an old 50s chevy hotrod myself if I was going to get something impractical for a toy. Seems like one of those planes would cost an awful lot for basically a toy for an adrenaline rush and to some extent would be a status symbol necessitating some level of greed, maybe that's not the right word, lust for interest in or obsession with maybe would have been more correct? Honestly I didn't look real closely at it I assumed it was a private jet. I still think it's weird to see money as an end in itself. It's supposed to buy you things for utility use and fun. My skis cost like 300. Kayak like 500. All my hiking gear maybe a grand total. Chessboard was like 50 bucks. I guess I have cheap hobbies / interests. Didn't realize I was talking to lambie been kindof avoiding the forum you must be doing well it's been pleasant interacting with you never thought I'd see the day. Did I have a stroke what the F is going on here? heheh

Some people get off on abstract stuff, and money's the abstraction they like to play with. I mean, you play chess for fun, some play EVE, others play IRL Business. They don't stick to pure abstractions (like EVE) for, probably, the same reason I don't stick to making technical drawings -- I wanna actually chuck up a chunk of billet in a lathe/set it up on an old Bridgeport & make piles of metal chips. For fun.

The "rich" people I know aren't even greedy, in the Scrooge sense. They get off on making humongous deals happen -- same way you get off on skiing or climbing; money's just the metal chips made along the way, and a way to keep score.
BTC traders are like that too, I suppose, only the byproduct of their fetish -- the detritus left in the wake of them getting their kicks -- is not piles of money as with teh rich, but poverty, tears, regret & financial ruin Cheesy

P.S. I'm not talking about the moral implications of having huge sums of money here -- simply how those sums came about for the few people I know.