Originally Posted by flyboyike
No, naivete of youth is how people end up buying 5 BMWs the minute they upgrade. There is nothing cunning about living within one's means.
I have to agree with you. I think everybody wants to earn enough to make a decent living, although some people (and not just pilots) have to show how much they earn to everybody, albeit with plenty different reasons (to be popular, to get laid, etc.). This of course costs quite a lot of money and in the end they end up perhaps even worse off than somebody with an average salary - especially on the long term - when they retire and paycheck stops coming.