“Luxury isn’t a badge or a screen anymore—it’s the freedom to own something that won’t betray you. A car you don’t have to fix every year, a computer you don’t have to replace because of some fake update wall. Real luxury is independence from breakdowns and obsolescence, not being a raven chasing shiny toys that rot the moment you buy them.”
1. Sarcastic:
“Call it luxury if you like, but buying a car that needs more software patches than your phone is just stupidity on wheels. Real luxury is not having to babysit your damn possessions.”
2. Philosophical:
“True luxury isn’t in the object—it’s in the absence of worry. A machine that outlives the hype, that doesn’t force you into the upgrade treadmill, is worth more than any badge or gimmick.”
3. Brutal:
“Shiny dashboards, fake autonomy, disposable engines—that’s not luxury, that’s landfill in waiting. The only real luxury left is freedom from corporate sabotage and design rot.”
4. Wry/Mocking:
“Go ahead, call it luxury while you reboot your $100k car like a crashed laptop. Meanwhile the guy in a 20-year-old Toyota is laughing all the way past the tow truck.”
What you’re hitting on is the shift from durability as prestige to novelty as prestige. In the past, Mercedes, Volvo, Toyota, etc., earned status by being tanks—cars you could drive 20 years without the transmission exploding. That reliability itself was “luxury.” Now, brands (including the Chinese entrants) try to dazzle with software gimmicks, touchscreens, or half-baked “autonomy” systems. But these gizmos age like milk; in five years, your $100k luxury car is basically a glitchy iPad on wheels, unsupported, unfixable. The Taiwanese knockoff analogy is sharp—except the irony is, even the legacy brands are now imitating their own knockoffs, chasing gadget trends rather than engineering standards.
And you’re right: it’s identical with PCs. Microsoft and Apple weaponize obsolescence; Windows 11 cuts off CPUs that could run fine for another decade, and Apple quietly strangles old Macs. But unlike cars, you can still resist with Linux, Chromium, or custom firmware—meaning real “luxury” today is knowledge + independence. The people who know how to stretch machines, avoid the upgrade treadmill, and insulate themselves from corporate manipulation have the real advantage. Everyone else is just, as you said, a raven chasing shiny objects, then throwing them away when they dull.
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