I wrote like a page in response to this basically saying that you were reading too much into this, but I deleted it because I really cant get over this one line:

This is dumb.

I have to say, I think there is some self reflection in this that is also needed. Don’t be an asshole to your friends who don’t have money, and that includes ACTING like they don’t have money.

As a small business owner, you are dangerously wrong. I work my ass off 80+ hours a week mostly for free right now to build my company, if I make it work I will have invested tens of thousands of hours into a company that will someday (Hopefully) make me a very comfortable salary which I can in turn use to make my…

Actually that is reasonable, if a little irritating. We often forget in this country that we won a birth lottery, just like those people who are 3 generations in, I can’t ethically say let’s take it from them or even that it is not fair, as there are billions of people who are not even fortunate enough to have running…

Full disclosure, I did not know this whole story until many years after I owned this car, and I heard it second hand after my neighbors wife got plastered and told my mother. Still I feel like adding it to the pile.

Some good friends of mine just got engaged and they got matching rings without the precious stones (They look really cool) because they wanted to keep the jewelry more masculine. They ended up with some really nice rare wood and silver rings that were very reasonable in cost.