Hehe, yeah exactly that. What I observed in the last 40yrs is that the more people earn, the more they spend. Mostly just to show off how not-poor they are to people they don’t really care about. Got a raise of 1000,-? And 1005,- were pushed to “life-style”. Never really got it. If you have what you need, why more?

If I would raise an empty cup in the streets, people would probably throw cash in it :-)

I mean, enjoy life as much as possible, but you don’t need to do that in a poser-car, poser-house or by buying fancy poser-clothes (which still are made with slave-labour). I do spend a lot in my hobbies, i admit that. But I’m not going nuts here and it’s my passion…

To be fair, growing up nowadays and drowning in stupid social media that 24/7 tells you how poor you are, no matter how rich you actually are, probably leaves a mark.