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A parable

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Johnny was 12 years old and fascinated with cars. He read car magazines and talked his dad into taking him to car shows. He was convinced at that age that someday he wanted to own a Ferrari, specifically a model of which only 5 were produced each year. Now this Ferrari cost $400,000, but Johnny was a responsible, forward-thinking young man, so he got a paper route and started saving his money. He worked at McDonald’s and Doordash. By the time Johnny was 25, he had saved $100,000 toward the car, but the price of the car had also risen to $500,000, so he felt no closer to his goal. Johnny continued saving. Johnny’s friends, of course, were driving cars that were a few years old, but they were getting around, while Johnny had to ride his Huffy bicycle everywhere. Occasionally Johnny rode with his friends, but he was determined as ever that the only car he would own was that Ferrari. By the age of 45, Johnny had finally saved $500,000, but in the mean time, the cost of his Ferrari had risen to $900,000. He was still $400,000 short, just as he was at 12 years old. His friends were now driving late-model Titans, Raptors, and Suburbans, and Johnny would toss his bike in the back and ride with them occasionally, but he remained set on a Ferrari or nothing. Johnny also got angry with the system. “No matter what I do, I’m no closer to getting a Ferrari.” Johnny even entered raffles to win a Ferrari, but every time a million other people also entered, so of course he never won. “It’s not fair that just because some people have more money, they can drive a Ferrari while I’m still riding a bike.” He eventually came to believe that because Ferraris were so expensive, Ferrari should stop selling their cars and just draw names out of a hat and give them away. “It would be much more fair if it didn’t matter how much money you have, and everyone had an equal chance of owning a Ferrari.” He even went as far as to say that he would give away all the money he had saved, if only Ferrari would randomly give away those 5 cars each year. “I would have a better chance of owning a Ferrari that way, than saving my money.” To this day, Johnny complains frequently to all his friends because he wants that Ferrari, but he will never get it.

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Pretty good. Suggestions: When Johnny was 12, the company created a new form of currency called Ferrar-o-bucks, so that you could guarantee a Ferrari once you had enough Ferrar-o-bucks. So Johnny always turned his cash into Ferrar-o-bucks, so that instead of $500,000 at the end, he had a pile of useless currency. Meanwhile, Bobby, whose grandfather died and gave him land in New Mexico, for some reason received a free Ferrari every year.
And at the end, when Johnny complains to his friends, his friends all agreed that you can't win if you don't play.

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Pretty good. Suggestions: When Johnny was 12, the company created a new form of currency called Ferrar-o-bucks, so that you could guarantee a Ferrari once you had enough Ferrar-o-bucks. So Johnny always turned his cash into Ferrar-o-bucks, so that instead of $500,000 at the end, he had a pile of useless currency. Meanwhile, Bobby, whose grandfather died and gave him land in New Mexico, for some reason received a free Ferrari every year.
And at the end, when Johnny complains to his friends, his friends all agreed that you can't win if you don't play.

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Contrarily, because Johnny always did have cash in hand, he could have bought a Titan, Raptor, or Suburban, or even a Corvette or Camaro at a much younger age. For that matter, he could have had all 5 of those. The only thing limiting Johnny to a Ferrari was his personal choice to hold out for the Ferrari.

But yes, you can't win if you don't play. ;)

QQ
 
He should’ve just donated that money to the Montana governor‘s reelection campaign. He would get eight free Ferraris for him and his friends!
 
Mostly agree BUT in your example Johnny wasn’t taxed to build the Ferraris that he was never able to buy, nor did the government build a system where the government owned all the Ferraris in a public trust, and the Ferraris could not drive all over and damage private property and use up other people’s fuel. At least in NM if 300 Ferraris drive all over your plowed field and siphon all the fuel out of your tank NM will give you a Ferrari of your own as compensation.
 

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