There's a scene in the movie "Baby Boy" where Ving Rhames(I forget his name in the movie) is telling a young Jody about the concept of "guns and butter" He said(I'm paraphrasing) That the guns is the stuff that appreciates in value(stocks and bonds, property, fine art) and the butter is all the stuff that will melt or depreciate in value(cars, clothes, customized jewelry). Its one of my favorite parts of the movie.
Of course I don't mean this in the literal sense. I don't want people going out and building an armory and getting indicted(T.I. style). I'm asking people to just use their brains when it comes to money management. I feel like black youth today are more concerned with LOOKING rich than actually being wealthy. Now we all like nice things and jewelry is cool but do people really need a custom Kellogs Cornflakes box chain? Say this guy in above picture gets low on money or is just tired of being a walking advertisement.....does that shit really have any resale value? I mean would you buy that...even if was only like 5 bucks?lol
I'm also like most people and like certain brands and designers(if you want to get my something for my upcoming birthday buy me some Polo.)but I just don't understand how someone could be broke and still be head to toe in their favorite fashion label. I think the problem is broke-ness isn't something people like to admit-to themselves or others-so they just ignore it and spend to look like they have doe. Everybody nowadays is "gettin money" but thats a lie in the same way that every girl says she's only slept with 3 guys and every man says he can only fit Magnums.lol
Not to be pretentious....all I'm saying don't try to keep up with the Joneses' becuase the Joneses' are usually in DEBT.
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