"Gem stones, man made gems are higher quality and carat count right now, in the future you'll be able to line your driveway with diamonds instead of gravel for the same cost."
"Tesla automobiles. Christ, I saw a Cybertruck for the first time, up close and personal yesterday and that thing is even uglier than in photos. You can't convince me that anyone owning one of these isn't just virtue-signalling to Musk and his ilk. The cars have always been odd, but not as obnoxious.
I remember having a meeting with some prospective clients back when Tesla started getting a foothold. At the end of the meeting, we all shook hands, and someone said, "Man, we're ALL gonna be driving Teslas!" Which sounded positive at the time.
Well, their funding didn't come through. If it did, I'd be selling my Tesla for cheap."
"Do you think anyone is gonna give a sh#t about your $1,000 sweater in 20 years?"
"Flocks of people gambling their retirement away at the casino. We have one close to home and it's always jam packed. I tell my wife sure, there will always be rich people with money to burn, but once the baby boomer generation has passed and people no longer have good retirements, the casino crowd is going to shrink by a LOT."
"Privacy."
"Beachfront property."
"Strong writing voice. Lawyers, doctors, engineering managers tend to have a lot of technical writing training and skill. AI is currently killing that."
"Fancy watches, I know rich people that obsess over collecting them but I feel like the invention of smartphones has turned them into a pure status symbol."
"Let me go back in time and say that only the absolute richest people had cell phones. And those were more like "car phones" than anything you could put in your pocket. Now, even toddlers have smart phones."
"A lot of swanky homes in coastal Florida are [going to become unlivable with sea level rise.](https://earth.org/sea-level-rise-in-florida/)."
"Access to good quality air, water and other natural resources."
"I'd go out on a limb here but perhaps houses? Not this or next generation but if populations keep shrinking, it's possible that older homes owned by family who's passed on (mostly ones not located near the large metro centers) will be treated like the current inherited huge oak china hutches - a large and bulky burden with little to no value. I believe rural properties in Japan have already been going through this in the current day."
"I hope it'll be designer clothes lol."
"Growing up in the 90s, I thought people were wealthy if the mom didn't work. In my area, it seemed about a 50/50 split. My mom worked and actually was the primary breadwinner. Today, I know one spouse doesn't work for a myriad of reasons.
I'm a millennial born right in the middle of the millennial window.
Today, an indicator of wealth to me is a second home. I think to me it's something that is just out of reach for me but is something people I know have. It could be attainable one day but today is not that day."
"Minerals. I really hope that in the future humanity will be able to synthesize any substance; now they are already synthesizing organic substances. I hope that in the future we will stop depleting the land and oil, coal, gas, etc. will lose their value. Technology will be the main value."
"More like looking into the past but I moved into an older home. I’ve been ripping out telephone, cable, and surround sound wires. Which would have all been a luxury at one point in time."
"Lawns. Man, PLEASE let lawns go the way of the dodo."
"Rich grandparents/elders."
"Cars."
"Physical currency."
"In the 1990s, the McLaren F1 set the world record for the fastest 0-60 mph time of 3.2 seconds.
It cost over $800K back then, or nearly $2 million in today's money adjusted for inflation. As collectables, they sell for around $20 million on the secondary market today.
A Tesla Model 3 performance starts at $42K.
It does 0-60mph in 2.9 seconds.
So yeah, fast accelerating cars will no longer be a sign of wealth."
"State of the art tech that will be outdated in a few years."
"“Old money aesthetic,” “quiet luxury,” etc a la TikTok. It’s already well on its way out, but the hordes of middle class people on the internet patting themselves on the back for saying “money talks, wealth whispers” to hate on already out-of-fashion conspicuous consumption markers is going to shift the needle on what exactly rich and upper middle class people wear."
"Owning things.
Subscription plans are rising day after day for almost everything, offering to keep that thing properly maintained/renewed/updated with a possibility to change it for the newest model.
Maybe it won't be anymore about how many things you own, but how many subscriptions you can have, specially for expensive things."
"RTX 4090."
"Employing a full time life coach."
"Beach houses."
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good one!
Nope. You people are the cult.
Someone's got a dictionary app!
Soooooo any word that has more than two syllables is a difficult "dictionary' word to you? Betcha can't WAIT to vote for Harris can you.
Intelligence has been chasing you your whole life yet you've succesfully managed to outrun it.
Er ...anybody who's been on the internet longer than a few years knows that's an often seen meme quote. Nice try though and thanks for playing.
You lost the game of wit. At least to have the wherewithal to know when you've been handed your hat.
The saddest part is that it often isn't even a shortage of houses it's a shortage of actually affordable houses. Investment groups buy large amounts of houses but keep them empty for whatever reason. In the US alone there are more empty houses/apartments than homeless people.
#12 Populations are NOT shrinking, it's still exponentially increasing. Places people live are shifting, and those rundown boomtowns will be sadly utilized within a short while.
#26 "Life Coach" isn't a real job, it's just getting soneone to pay you to be their parent/pastor/gym coach. The closest real job title would be "Support Specialist" that is a position offered by senior and disabled organizations.
Just google fertility rate. US: 1.6
Even china is below two and has it's population shrinking since 2022 or so.
Every country with a fertility rate below 2.something (2.3 I think) has a shrinking population unless that can be compensated by immigration.