Originally Posted by
livedarklions
You seriously think the scarcity they are referring to is just which model of car or other status trappings? "Scarcity" can refer to anything one wants more of. You can be insanely fake wealthy and be power hungry, and that leads to all sort of anti-social aggressive behavior.
Like becoming hyper focused with tunnel vision, consumed with rage & running over a cyclist or his bicycle over some perceived wrong concerning the public resource?
If you're expecting people to buy into this notion that the rich are somehow less prone to irrational aggression, you're going to have to do a lot better than that. You obviously half-understand the concept you're throwing around here, and acting like it's a logical deduction that someone with x model of Jaguar is more prone to aggression than someone with y model of Jaguar. That's absurd.
Not the actual rich. The stressed out & insecure.
Jaguar X, Jaguar Y, Audi, BMW. Doesn't matter. Fake-rich stressed out people gravitate to that which they most desire. (In this case a luxury brand automobile.) It's the cornerstone of luxury brands image. There is a reason those brands have a reputation for being driven by aggressive jerks.
It's the behavior that betrays that persons true state.
You don't suddenly become immune to status consciousness at some level of wealth, it could actually be argued that the pressures to maintain status might actually be more intense with the high visibility that great wealth brings.
I didn't say immune to status. I said status is a construct. A construct people susceptible to the image portrayed by luxury brands are susceptible to. Actual secure people have better things to do than to engage in petty disputes over public a resource; Much less be concerned about image among those whom they don't even consider peers.
Maybe it can be rationalized any one of a hundred different ways. Too much to lose. Nothing to be gained. They outsource the worry to a chauffeur or butler... Whatever. The point is their personal psychological security well is deep enough they are not irrationally insecure over petty concerns...That's sort of a defining feature of you know...feeling/being secure.
This is hardly FBI level character deconstruction.