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Super rich guy tried to pick up my then girlfriend at an industry event after party kind of thing. She was not impressed by any of his shit. The look of disappointment on his face after showing off his $250k watch still makes me smile all these years later.
I'm not even gonna lie, chief, if somebody shows me any kind of luxury fashion like that and boasts that it costs more money than I'll ever see in my lifetime, I'm just gonna ask if it was worth the human suffering incurred in the making of these luxury goods.
There are apparently a surprisingly different levels of strata of "rich people". The groups in the middle range are apparently the most desperate to appear to be in the higher ranges of rich people.
So if someone comes up to you and brags about their $250k watch, you already know that they're not in the "rich rich" group, and they desperately want you to think they are. So hit them where it hurts with a reply like: "Ahh, I understand now. You're not really rich. People that actually are rich don't tell others how much they paid for a watch. Maybe someday you'll get to that level like really rich people. Until then, could you please leave me alone?"
$10 millionaires don't brag
$100 millionaires brag about their "wealth"
$1 billionaires brag about their "intelligence"
They say "intelligence" to make you think "smarts" when it's really "membership to a market manipulation and insider trading club."
Money talks, but wealth whispers.
I had a boss years ago and I knew everything about his financial situation because he had hired me to trade S&P500 futures with/for him. He had about $20 million in stock, a beach house in South Carolina worth a couple million, and he owned a temp agency that paid him about $40,000 a month, so he was certainly rich by any normal human standards. But he had moved from San Francisco and was friends with a bunch of venture capital types who were all worth more than a couple of hundred million dollars, and it was obvious that his (relative) poverty absolutely burned him to his core. This was why he imagined that day-trading futures was going to be his key to the really big time - he could never see that the brokerages we dealt with were just scamming him.
Yup that sums it up.
Or you could just start planning to rob the fucker.
Is anyone into watches at the age when rich men try to pick them up? I could be easily impressed by a watch now (a personalised G-Shock $50-300, any diapason $500-2k, an enthusiastic watch geek explaining their Jaeger-Lecoultre...), but not part of the target demographic.
I have some lower-four-figure watches and am always way more impressed by someone with a Casio or non-grand Seiko, they clearly have more sense than me, and excellent taste on top
Personally I’m more impressed by a $1k Garmin than a $250k Rolex or whatever.
Ive been pretty impressed by this 20 year old knockoff Victorinox I have that cost like nineteen dollars originally and yet somehow keeps perfect time.
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Got excited enthusing about watches I thought are cool. Very long and deraily for the original topic. But in summary I think there's a factor to the dance of advanced mechanics, so to say, and the deliberate absence of contemporary smart functions. A "soul", if you will. Someone showing you their watch can be like them telling you their favourite Linux distro, it says a lot about a person, and just having one suggests they may be "my people". 😅
Though Rolexes are imho fugly often gaudy pieces that do have in-house movements but it clearly isn't their main selling point. Please don't use them as an example. I don't know what the Linux equivalent would be, ChromeOS?
Oh damn, that's a great comment! I'm glad you put it up, if only in summary form.
Hahaha. Yeah absolutely. And indeed, that's sort of what I was getting at with my earlier comment. I'm a runner and triathlete. I can geek out about someone's Garmin and relate to that in a way I just don't care about any other timepiece. That's what my watch says about me, and I'm very conscious of it. It doesn't feel like being a "watch person" so much as being an amateur athlete.
Ubuntu. It's 100% Ubuntu. Which, fwiw, is my Linux distro of choice. I like Linux, but I don't care about it in a meaningful way. I can count on one hand the number of hours I've spent using a non-Debian based Linux distro (Android excluded, of course). Ubuntu, or some closely-related Debian-based distro, gets the job done. It lets me have the low level easy terminal access I don't get on Windows and only kinda-sorta get on Mac, and any problem I have is exceptionally easy to Google because it's what all the tutorials and questions are geared towards.
As for not using Rolex, unfortunately for better or worse, they are the by-word for "fancy watch". It's the one brand everyone will have heard of and understand basically what it means.