Overkill on the road.
My sons are presently enamored of fast and expensive cars. They watch for them
on the road (reporting to me what they see each day on the way back and forth
from school, rather than what they learned while there) and oogle over photographs
of those cars that they find in the papers or on the internet. Often they'll report
to me that a particular car can go 220kmh, to which I'll inevitably reply - "not
on Israel's roads".
The boys haven't yet internalized the simple truth that for our needs a simple
and serviceable Subaru is more than sufficient, and that anything beyond that
would be for status. Or maybe they have, and they understand the importance of
status. If so, I simply have to hope that it won't be long before they transfer
that desire for status from the illogical (and extremely expensive) realm of cars,
to a much more logical category - computers, for instance.
Go to: Me and Moore's Law.