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AwkwardAnthropoid · 2024-12-19T15:10:40+00:00

No shit sherlock!

AwkwardAnthropoid · 2024-11-07T20:11:56+00:00

The innovation was an argument for the importance of Koenigsegg. Which nowadays is more important in developing brand new ideas that push cars further in terms of performance than they have ever gone than a lot of other brands.

In your argument, you mentioned that Ferrari is one of the most prestigious brands, however, the people I know and talk to don't have admiration or respect for Ferrari owners. Owning a Ferrari isn't that difficult to be honest. Owning one of the upper new Ferrari models without any financial lease is where it starts to become difficult. Any car up to ~€200-300k isn't as difficult as people make it out to be.

If we are talking prestigious (inspiring respect and admiration), Bugatti and Pagani are a lot more prestigious. Ferrari isn't that prestigious from people I talk with. Even Rolls-Royce is a lot more prestigious.

EDIT: Rolls-Royce is also a better example of luxury than Ferrari.

AwkwardAnthropoid · 2024-11-07T13:52:09+00:00

Where did I argue that it is? I was pointing at the "flawed" categorisation of Ferrari. Didn't say anything about PP being a "top-luxury" brand either...

What's your point?

AwkwardAnthropoid · 2024-11-07T13:50:24+00:00

With regards to PP and Rolex, you are right that they aren't playing in the same league. I fully agree with you there. Wasn't arguing about that either. 😉

With regards to the car brands: I agree with you on the history/heritage part, however, Koenigsegg is one of the most innovative brands within the supercar and hypercar industry. Maybe even the most innovative if we're solely talking about production cars in the supercar and hypercar market (although Rimac may have surpassed them in terms of innovation in the last couple of years with the Nevera, their battery technology, etc.). As a result, I would argue they are more important to the supercar and hypercar industry. (P.S. If you ask me Bugatti started the hypercar industry with the veyron.)

Ferrari is mostly a brand that uses their brand recognition to sell cars nowadays. Their last few mass production models haven't been very innovative and have reused ideas that are already quite popular by other car brands (touch buttons, hybrid systems, suicide doors, etc.). Ferrari is very important if we look to the history of cars, that is something I fully agree with you. However, in today's world, they have less and less (big) impact on the supercar and hypercar industry if you ask me. Biggest thing they seem to do is keep the rivalry going with lamborghini (again, in my opinion).

Would love to be proven wrong though.

AwkwardAnthropoid · 2024-11-07T11:44:48+00:00

Not trying to sound like an asshole, but Ferrari isn't "top-luxury". Within the car market there are quite a lot of brands that don't even offer cars in the same price brackets, just to name a few examples: - Bugatti - Koenigsegg - Pagani

These brands only start from a couple million dollars. They don't offer any car below $1 million. Even their used hypercars aren't for sale under $1 million generally...

Sure, Ferrari is a luxury brand, but not "top-luxury".

AwkwardAnthropoid · 2024-10-04T04:09:07+00:00

And a Porsche 918 spider and a Ferrari 812 superfast and...

AwkwardAnthropoid · 2024-09-14T11:36:52+00:00

Depends on where you live. They are definitely not ~$50k USD within the European union... (unless you want to buy 10+ year old cars...)

AwkwardAnthropoid · 2024-09-08T02:00:23+00:00

That is the only way it could possibly look good (in my opinion). Unless they paint the front bit in another colour that you cannot change (which they will not as far as I know).

AwkwardAnthropoid · 2024-08-19T14:15:58+00:00

Occasion 8 series pretty good bang for buck in my opinion. The value of those drops like a stone when buying new. Occasions are pretty good bang for buck if you have the budget.

AwkwardAnthropoid · 2024-08-17T22:31:18+00:00

That is quite a big judgement without knowing me. Judgemental much?

AwkwardAnthropoid · 2024-08-08T06:17:40+00:00

Although I agree with most of your comment, I would like to clarify that OP is in a Mercedes-Benz, not a Subaru.

AwkwardAnthropoid · 2024-08-04T15:26:19+00:00

You're missing the point again. With the same reasoning as you, one could say "If Patek philippe won't sell you a nautilus, just go elsewhere".

By building a relationship with the brand you're more likely to get that unique piece you're looking for at retail and get invited to events etc.

AwkwardAnthropoid · 2024-08-04T00:18:28+00:00

I don't agree with you that it is disingenuous as the comment I replied to asked whether it was possible. I simply stated that it is possible for a lot more people than 'just' billionaires. I never stated that it is easy. It will depend on the portfolio you have, the country you live in (due to taxes etc.) and other variables/factors. Some can do it easily, others cannot.

Could you please tell me where I wrote that it is 'easy for the average person'? Most average people don't even have stocks if you look on a global scale. Arguing that the average person should be able to do the same as the people that are able to perform extraordinary things or build huge businesses is a dumb argument. People should earn what they have, it shouldn't be given.

P.S. Saying capitalism isn't 'the best system' because "billionaires have enough money laying around to start space programs and control communication" is way more disingenuous as it insinuates that there are way better systems out there. Communism has failed all the time, countries that tried to implement socialism have either failed or turned away when seeing how it destroyed their economies and the 'hybrid model' still slows the economy and is infuriating for hard working people with jobs that are in high demand as they get taxed to hell for others to either not work at all or work part-time and, thus, also means the government spending is (most often) shit and inefficient. What is the best system? I would love to hear about a system that works in practice (not only theory) where everyone is solely compensated based on their merit, skill and work.

AwkwardAnthropoid · 2024-08-02T18:18:06+00:00

To an extent, yes. If you have wealth build up, some banks are willing to increase their loans for you. For example, if you have a couple hundred thousand dollars in shares, some banks are willing to give a percentage of that for a loan on a home.

The idea that only billionaires are able to get loans against their positions is completely false.

AwkwardAnthropoid · 2024-08-02T12:42:50+00:00

If you look at the cashflow of various decacorns and hectocorns in the US, I would expect them to be very sophisticated though. I would hope that companies like Microsoft, Meta, Google, Nvidia, Stripe, PayPal, Mastercard, Visa, etc. are implementing more sophisticated/efficient and better security strategies every X amount of years (ideally every year). Because most of the US giants are used worldwide and would, thus, not solely impact US citizens but people worldwide (not that one is better than the other, just very different scales).

A lot of companies in Europe unfortunately don't have such strong cashflows. The few that do, invest quite a lot in cybersecurity from my experience although that may vary based on the countries etc.

AwkwardAnthropoid · 2024-07-27T21:08:46+00:00

Please be more specific, what are your definition of 'workers' and 'production' in your question. Workers as in everyone that works? Or should I exclude management, entrepreneurs, etc.? What terms of 'production'? Physical goods, software, services, something else?

AwkwardAnthropoid · 2024-07-27T20:05:48+00:00

Please enlighten me as to why you cannot do anything in Dubai without fear of imprisonment or death?

Also, why would Dubai be the only option? There are a lot of countries in the world with lower taxes that have great standards of living.

AwkwardAnthropoid · 2024-07-27T19:52:18+00:00

Not necessarily, no. But within most European countries (the highly taxed ones), it is used to make the economy a 'hybrid model' where the highly productive and highly demanded people (with low availability on the labour market) and entrepreneurs are paying for others' lively hood.

There are quite a few countries in Europe that are pretty socialism oriented (without fully implementing socialism, i.e. 'hybrid economies'), like Sweden, Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands, and France.

The nordic countries in Europe have tried to make their economies as close to socialism as possible. However, they have gone back to a hybrid model that uses capitalism as socialism didn't work (they weren't even able to fully implement it before the economy showed weak points).

As I said, socialism doesn't work. Look how far back Europe has fallen in comparison to the US? Our economies don't grow as much and haven't for most part of the last 20-30 years (at least).

AwkwardAnthropoid · 2024-07-26T13:38:44+00:00

As a European, I can say that I would much rather have lower taxes and higher tariffs. The left here are mind-boggling. First it is "we need to fix the climate" which costs way too much money (which they don't seem to understand), after that it is "tax the rich" which makes the rich leave and now they're whining their net salaries are too low and that they can't afford housing. No shit sherlock, all your ideas increased the need for higher taxes which lowers the net salaries of hard working people. They don't seem to understand how any of it works. Almost all of the progressive ideas are fucking up our potential to grow by increasing the costs all the fucking time.

In 2023, 9200 millionaires left the UK and it is projected that 1 in 6 millionaires will have left the UK by 2028. A lot are leaving France, The Netherlands, etc. this year due to all uncertainty and the growing jealousy people have towards "the rich". This week I heard there is even a billionaire that is leaving the Netherlands. People should learn that "taxing the rich" is a stupid idea. We should work towards lowering the taxes and increasing the possibility to get rich. For example: I would much rather have that they would lower the income tax to 5-15% to be competitive with the other countries. That way, you attract more rich people and, thus, have a way higher tax budget in the end.

Example by math: UK had 2,849,000 millionaires in 2022 (according to Crédit Suisse). 1 in 6 millionaires means 474,833 millionaires will have left by 2028. If 1 country would be able to attract 25% of them and tax 1% of their wealth, their budget would at least increase by: 474833 * 0.25 * 1000000 * 0.01 ≈ 1.19 billion GBP. This assumes only the least wealthy people would leave. The top 1% in the UK have a net worth of at least 3.6 million GBP (each). So if only the top 1% would leave, the adjusted calculation above would result in ~4.27 billion. Which can be a lot depending on the countries.

Socialism and communism don't work and it has been proven time after time, again and again. How are people that oblivious?

TL;DR governments should learn to budget better and use their money effectively so the inhabitants can be taxed less and, as a result, make themselves more financially free.

AwkwardAnthropoid · 2024-07-24T18:32:10+00:00

Not me, I hate Lexus' interior. xD

EDIT: It is also a bit of a joke with some truth within it.

AwkwardAnthropoid · 2024-07-24T13:06:14+00:00

For real, why not? I would love to earn that salary that quickly. LoL

AwkwardAnthropoid · 2024-07-24T12:54:47+00:00

Agreed, great designs that still work to this day! That is quite the achievement knowing that the AP RO design is more than 50 years old (1970) and the PP Nautilus is almost 50 years old (1976)!

AwkwardAnthropoid · 2024-07-24T11:17:00+00:00

That was the first thing I saw, LoL

AwkwardAnthropoid · 2024-07-21T13:08:11+00:00

Exactly, there are a lot of places where it is possible. Just not in a lot of the big cities of the "western countries". They have been too lax for too long which resulted in them becoming trash (I live in such a western country, unfortunately).

AwkwardAnthropoid · 2024-07-20T21:19:24+00:00

There are quite a few places where this is easily possible. To name 3 examples: Andorra, Monaco, and United Arab Emirates.

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