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    cyberfunk said:
    Yea, that may be .. but the point is the statement getting something like makes: this is how you should act. It sets the image that success should lead to excess at the cost of everyone else, screw them. It's little wonder people love to hate people like that.

    Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

    I happen to have enough to even possibly get one should I try, and know several people with more than enough means to get one without thinking (except their PA/Family Offices would call someone who knows the guy who gets the thing done, of course)... and I know most of them would look aghast at the thought. Blowing a lot of money on a fancy toy is one thing if you have it. But those who spend money on these things that scream "I waste because I can, to everyone else's detriment" are truly something I struggle to comprehend.

    The ostentatious rich who buy these things bring scorn upon themselves and I will have very little pity for them when people treat them poorly. Those who act without thought or concern for others deserve little respect. Buying one of these marks you with a "very high likelihood of being a d-bag" score.
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    You're advocating ethics in this comments section - that doesn't usually fly well I find. 😂 However it's probly simply that those who even click on this story lack them to begin with. Then again, any time I advocate against spaceX enthusiasm (because of its scumbag bigot CEO and the fake scumbag president he worships) I get downvoted to zero. I find it hard to believe all those readers (way more than this article) totally lack ethics too. My conclusion: they're just self-interested morons.

    Luxury of this type, as exemplified by vehicles like this, shouldn't even exist - doubly so since it's gasoline fueled. You correctly state it implies something quite severe about the person's psyche. But I guess that's as expected, because there are plenty of disorders of all types going around - but this site shouldn't be celebrating them.
     
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