I find this thread to be, at the very least, ironic. Anyone who has purchased a Panigale (at least bought it new or lightly used), cannot possibly claim to be anything other than comfortably well off.
Someone in the lower middle class might scrape together pennies and save for a dream 748. But Panigales? It's a number of pots calling the Aston-owning kettle black, is what this thread is.
Now, life certainly isn't fair. A couple of years ago, I looked up what constituted a "1%er" (socioeconomically, not in terms of motorcycle clubs). I found that earning more than $400k-ish a year placed one in this "1%", which the "99%" was pretty bent out of shape about when their occupied Wall Street.
Well fancy that, I'm in the 1%. So I put on airs for a bit, my speaking intonation became a bit more disdainful, and I thought quite a lot of myself.
Until....I discovered, the 1% might hold a hugely disproportionate chunk of America's wealth, but that didn't exactly mean *I* was wealthy. I don't even make a million a year. I can't afford the monthly payment on a brand new Porsche 911 Turbo S, not without taking food out of my kid's mouths. I'm stuck with a 12 year old Audi RS6 that's been tuned to a measly 520hp. Not that I drive much anyways, or if I do, it's always nice to take the wife's year-old Mercedes GL450.
I feel CHEATED!! This is NOT FAIR!! It's the 0.1%ers, or really, the 0.01%ers that hoard all this wealth. I might be able to buy any new motorcycle on a whim, but what is this ridiculous situation where I can't buy any new CAR I fancy, and that my house is but a mere 3600 square feet??
So now I know - my life is insufferable. My wife and I have to park our cars OUTSIDE in the SUN, because we only have enough garage space for our three Ducatis and a measly few grand worth of tools. I have to ration out my carbon fiber purchases each month so as not to screw up my family's budget.
And it's all because of the SUPER RICH. Damn them and their Astons, their Ferraris, their Rolls-Royces. THEY'RE the reason why my life is bereft of the necessities I deserve.
And thus I realize, every attack on the original poster is valid, because the rest of us must live in similar squalor to myself. I am so poor I cannot buy a second 1299S for track duty only - I must arduously prepare my street 1299S for the track every time I go. Truly, this is exemplary of unfair income disparity.
