[Porsche-O-Phile]

I see your point but don't entirely agree. Life is meant to be lived - not suffered through. By the same token it's not appropriate to indulge one's every fantasy and live beyond one's means to do it. There has to be a balance of restraint and experience - of enjoyment and suffering. As with most things the truth lies somewhere in the middle. Either extreme leads to ruined lives. I see the problem much as you do - that people have (for the most part) lived too far to one end of the spectrum for too long. I suspect we just draw where the line is between appropriate and inappropriate in slightly different places.