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I drive a 20 year old middle-class car. I drive it because it's been reliable and fuel-efficient, and I have no reason to replace it. GP would judge me as fina
by reactspa 5y ago
I drive a 20 year old middle-class car. I drive it because it's been reliable and fuel-efficient, and I have no reason to replace it.
GP would judge me as financially unsuccessful and not pay me any mind if I needed a problem solved.
GP has been played by these "mercedes having" people and GP's own pre-conceived immature notions about status-signaling.
- dazc 5y agoAccepting GP didn't intend to imply this but, generally speaking, many people would judge you as unsecessful but that is their problem and not yours. I drive a 12 year old car that has been reliable as any new car I've owned and drives pretty much as well too. The fact that I am not impressing anyone as a consequence is something I've grown to be comfortable with as I have gotten older.
- cinntaile 5y agoThe GP added more context in another comment. There are some cultural differences at play here.
- muzani 5y agoIt's not the full data set. It's about 1/3 of all things past prototype stage, and half of failures. It's the failures between prototype and market. Some fail when they hit market. These didn't even hit market, so they're just pointless incomplete failures. No big wins yet, but enough to make a career of it. If anything, the data makes me biased against people with nice cars. I expected most of the outrage to be from those who bought expensive cars. Many of the relatively successful ones have been partners who owned no cars, though one guy has a very nice MPV.