[FreedomToCreate]

I see this happening a lot amongst my friends in the bay area. Now 4-5 years removed from school, everyone paid off there debts and are setting up there adult life. One buys a home, another buys a home the same size or bigger. One buys a tesla, the other buys the one model up. One gets a drone, the other buys a drone the week after. It goes on and on. Most of the time now, meeting with them, discussions are about what they bought or what they plan on buying.

To me it feels like everyone uses the goods they buy to show how important they are. Expensive goods means you are valued in what you do, that's why you can afford it. I break the group mold, driving a corolla, living in a rental mostly because I want to save my money for other goals but sometimes I do feel the pang to buy one of the newly announced toys so I can go to a meet up and show it off.

[Domenic_S]

Another way to look at it -- your friends are very close in age and class, exposed to the same things, and likely going through the same life stages together. We are all less different than we'd like to believe.

[defterGoose]

But I'm a unique, rugged individual whose whose deepest desires and life-perspective are my own! Don't spout your collectivist socialist propaganda in my direction!

/s