Re: Why do people spend so much time and money on cars?
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I understand the car hobby aspect of it. Building cars, spending time working on them etc. It's the guy who spends half his net worth on a 30k car because he thinks it is cool I am mainly referring to.
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Kurosh,
This is the point you should have led with. People spend their money on loads of things others consider silly and/or wasteful. This is OK so long as they can afford it. The problem isn't the spending of loads of money on cars, it's spending loads of money one can't afford on cars. A guy with 100 grand in the bank spending 5 grand to modify his car in a silly way is just having fun. The guy with nothing in the bank and huge credit card debt doing the same thing is a moron.
An apt analogy here would be high-end computer equipment, which provides moderate performance increases over the midline components at double+ the price. Some people just get off on being the fastest.
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