{"id":42583392,"user":"jszymborski","time":1735889158,"time_ago":"2 years ago","type":"comment","content":"

What about wanting more people to know you are rich is not childish?","comments":[{"id":42583422,"user":"throwaway290","time":1735889559,"time_ago":"2 years ago","type":"comment","content":"

Status signaling and mating purposes = pretty adultish to me:)","comments":[{"id":42583646,"user":"piva00","time":1735891848,"time_ago":"2 years ago","type":"comment","content":"

That's one thing you gotta learn by yourself, hopefully.","comments":[{"id":42583942,"user":"throwaway290","time":1735895042,"time_ago":"2 years ago","type":"comment","content":"

One of us is certainly yet to discover basic human drives!","comments":[{"id":42584760,"user":"kristiandupont","time":1735904430,"time_ago":"2 years ago","type":"comment","content":"

Being insecure is indeed a pretty basic human "drive", but I don't think it's particularly mature either. I don't have any data but my intuition tells me that those tend to wane over time.","comments":[{"id":42585021,"user":"throwaway290","time":1735906954,"time_ago":"2 years ago","type":"comment","content":"

Human drives are reproduction and power. Or maybe just only reproduction actually?

This guy blatantly and strategically got himself talked about and you guys call it "insecurity" and "childish".

It is a meme that guy in loud ferrari has a small something but we poor people say it to each other to cope. it is a working mechanism to get noticed by girls and girls will look on that ferrari. These are facts.

"insecurity" is not it. "childish" is not it.

"poor taste" maybe it. "selfish" maybe it. Try those instead.

Edit: yes, maybe guy in ferrari has a different taste than you. But also he will get noticed by more girls and that is just fact. Another fact: getting noticed is first step to talk about how sophisticated you are with someone who already has 100 people competing for attention and full DMs. If you ignore those facts and you think you are not the one being childish, I don't know...","comments":[{"id":42585479,"user":"piva00","time":1735911117,"time_ago":"2 years ago","type":"comment","content":"

> It is a meme that guy in loud ferrari has a small something but we poor people say it to each other to cope. it is a working mechanism to get noticed by girls and girls will look on that ferrari.

That's the thing, mate, this is attractive to a cohort of people but this adolescent view of the world is, well... Rather childish.

I know many women in my adult life who are absolutely put off by a guy flaunting how rich they are, it does attract some others but it isn't this zero-sum game where the rich guy has all the attention and is so much more attractive to everyone.

It's not a cope, I used to think like that when I was young but it's all quite bullshit being force-fed to insecure guys, it's childish to see the world like that since there are so many different types of people that might like/dislike very different stuff.

But good luck, get yourself a Ferrari and go get the girls you want to be attracted by it, I realised that those are really not the girls I'm attracted to in the end :) and that's fine, there's people for almost all tastes.

Just shed away this adolescent worldview, it makes you look pretty insecure and immature.","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":5,"url":"item?id=42585479"}],"comments_count":1,"level":4,"url":"item?id=42585021"}],"comments_count":2,"level":3,"url":"item?id=42584760"}],"comments_count":3,"level":2,"url":"item?id=42583942"}],"comments_count":4,"level":1,"url":"item?id=42583646"}],"comments_count":5,"level":0,"url":"item?id=42583422"}],"comments_count":6,"url":"item?id=42583392"}

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