You gotta understand this proving your worth by buying ridiculously expensive shit and then bringing attention to it is an attitude of “new money”

Rich people who have been rich for generations will have the same time piece but they will not even think about it. It’s granted to them, part of their life that they would never question. Like you putting on socks.

And that is the attitude that new money cannot understand. Hell that’s kind of what the great gatsby is about, new money just not getting that the expensive shit is just more furniture.

So the most frustrating thing to this mindset is to treat it as no big deal, or even weird that they would bring it up which really it is

“Good for you. Have a cookie. My $20 Casio tells the time just as well.”

What’s my motivation? Is there a reason why I’m listening to Alec Baldwin brag about his watch? What’s stopping me from simply walking away?

“Okay?”

I am not a friend of clever comebacks. People who point these things out are pathetic and people who get triggered by that only slightly less so.

Can your watch play Bad Apple?

Can your watch run Doom?

Can you install Arch on that watch?

…

… didn’t think so 😛

You paid all that money for a watch that can’t do ANY cool stuff? You utter loser 🤣 🤣 🤣

Damn thats a cheap watch, is it Chinese too?

I guess it’s true, money can’t buy taste.

Fun fact: Alec Baldwin’s character was invented for the movie to provide exposition. The filmmakers didn’t trust movie-going audiences to pick up the information from the three conversations that occur at the beginning of the play.

“You should have saved up a bit more and bought something less gaudy”

Barf in his face.

I don’t have a car

I don’t care to respond

I don’t mind sounding poor.

Wealth beyond what is good for you is no better than theft I’d say. Buying expensive watches while little children grow up in poverty is nothing to be proud of. If anyone should feel shame it should be that guy. Don’t be humiliated by such shameless assholes. And don’t try to counter attack, It won’t work, they don’t share your values, they feel no shame for the things that they do. Instead let’s organize and fight them where it hurts. Taxes, taxes, taxes.

Such frivolous spenditure will rot your money. Decay of your father’s fortune and your child’s kingdom. Begotten by weak flesh and temptation, coward from strength.

Even the homeless know to not show your power before you speak, or your trades will be levied against you.

I have people who love me.

‘nice watch!’ then move in and quietly say “oh, hey, it looks like your barber missed a spot back there”

A shame, such a tasteless choice. If you had as much class as money, you’d have chosen something like a vintage 1960s submariner rather than a frivolous toy available on every high street in the world.

“You got ripped off”