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Originally Posted by sonick
From what I've followed even though bicbaws is in a tough position with his family and living situation on a $60k annual salary, but I can't get over the cars he's owned given the financial situation he's in.
They are way nicer than anything I've ever owned and am nowhere near the type of challenges that bicbaws has faced.
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My hypothesis: it's a mental wellbeing thing.
If you're perpetually feeling low with seemingly nothing to look forward to, then going all-in on an aspirational car would be like pounding back powdered donuts when your blood sugar is just constantly cratering.
There are so many options with way higher $-to-happiness conversion efficiency, but when you're riding the low end of the joy curve, I can see how his options would be limited. At least he's not doing hard drugs: that would be the unrecoverable deep end of the curve.