argumate:

kontextmaschine:

argumate:

When you see someone driving a nice car, you rarely think, “Wow, the guy driving that car is cool.” Instead, you think, “Wow, if I had that car people would think I’m cool.” Subconscious or not, this is how people think.

The paradox of wealth is that people tend to want it to signal to others that they should be liked and admired. But in reality those other people bypass admiring you, not because they don’t think wealth is admirable, but because they use your wealth solely as a benchmark for their own desire to be liked and admired.

This stuff isn’t subtle. It is prevalent at every income and wealth level. There is a growing business of people renting private jets on the tarmac for 10 minutes to take a selfie inside the jet for Instagram. The people taking these selfies think they’re going to be loved without realizing that they probably don’t care about the person who actually owns the jet beyond the fact that they provided a jet to be photographed in.

When I got Blue Bitch I was like “yeah, this sweet ‘68-styled CB350 will be a great attention-getting conversation piece with the ladies”, ignorant that who really wants to talk about your old motorcycle are old motorcycle guys, with the result that sketchy, grey-bearded, beer-bellied, leather-skinned older men were constantly stopping me on the street or calling at me from rolled-down windows

so you simply shifted your sexual preferences to suit your newfound surplus attention huh

@kata4a

which presumably played a pivotal role in your bisexual awakening

Cute.

For the record, my taste in men is actually kinda twinky ranging up to “dashing”