Gulfstream 200 said:
Oh, aint that special....
No, most of us dont "need" (or even want) a BMW or a surround sound home theatre....but hey, jacka$$ - wouldn't it be nice to be able to buy one if you did??? Do you and yours deserve a few nice things?
are you not worth it?
I know as an educated, experienced, hard working pilot Im worth a lot more than the 70K your moms and pops happily raised you on. (congrats on the nice wood floors...?)
But hey, be happy with it. What you do certainly isn't worth more than lower middle class huh?
Im sure we can find you a 28K RJ job out there easy enough.
first off, gulfstream200, i would like to commend you on your maturity. the name calling and bashing of my hardworking parents is a fitting touch. i'm gaining much insight into who you are as a person, as well as what your morals, values, and priorities are. all the money in the world obviously can't buy you any class...
i can think of a million things that my parents could have done with their money instead of feed me. i'm glad i got to eat and got an education, however, instead of them rollin' around in a couple of BMW's. you said, and I quote: "wouldn't it be nice to be able to buy one if you did??? Do you and yours deserve a few nice things? are you not worth it?" well, let's think about this. yes, of course i feel like i am worth it. but some of us have to live in the big picture. if i buy this stuff now, and continue to scrape by, how does this stuff improve my life? how cool is my $2,000 stereo if i don't have the cool plasma screen tv to go with it? well, let's drop another $4,500 to get the newest and best model. hmmm, well now that i have this awesome entertainment center, i have to go out and get some good/new furniture. oh, and i can't just have regular cable -- i need High Definition cable or satellite. as you can see, the trend continues. meanwhile, my kids are going hungry and shoveling coal in the factories to earn an extra $2.00 for the family, my wife has to prostitute herself out at night to make money, all the while i'm on my couch watching monday night football in HD-tv and surround sound. "come here, honey!! sounds just like you're on the field!!" but she's nowhere to be found. oh well. at least my entertainment system is cool.
obviously, that is an exaggeration. but why do that to yourself? why not live within your means, retire comfortably, and be able to support your kids if you need to? i'll give you another realistic example. if my parents lived under your hedonist/materialist lifestyle, when i call them up and say "i need to borrow a few hundred bucks", would they have it to give to me? probably not. "sorry son, that money is all tied up in the new yacht i bought." okaaaaaaaay, so that sucks for me. but in real life, my parents chose to live in their means, comfortably but
responsibly, and it turns out if ever i need to borrow money, they have it. just because you have it now, gulfstream, why spend it? is it burning a hole in your pocket? is it like some disease or monster that's going to get you if you don't get rid of it ASAP? my parents and i, along with a lot of the members here, have what you lack - a little bit of self-control. now, if you define self-control as getting the 54" plasma TV instead of the 70" plasma tv, then you have issues.
would i be happy if my parents, not my mom and pop (show a little respect), made $150,000 a year? sure would. woulda made the hard times easier. but you learn from those hard times. i really hope that you're just being a jerk to play devil's advocate, gulfstream, and aren't really like this in real life. if so, i pity you and those who deal with you day to day.
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