No kidding, I mean I get that people are frustrated with rich people with the current economy but this was a cool build and it looks like they do these types of things for their channel. I’d definitely spend a week traveling in this thing checking out cool places
Yes I genuinely can't, and I've lived a similar situation. I've suffered for years and only just a year and a half ago began to feel better yet, when I saw videos like this I never thought about money. I saw a happy and wholesome family and it gave me a purpose to keep going.
That's because you maintained a positive outlook on life, these miserable fucks threw that right out the window, only thing driving them is their hatred.
I eat dried beans instead of canned, I haven’t gotten the therapy I desperately need because it’s 90€/ session, and we keep our apartment at 14°c in the winter; blankets, sweaters, wool socks, fleece pants, and a bowl of lentil soup does the trick.
It’s a cool build. I’ve always preferred tent camping/ backpacking for the immersion in nature, but this seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do with your spending money- plus is means super cheap vacations and weekend getaways for the lifetime of the vehicle.
My aunt and uncle that have a massive NYC apartment plus a ski chalet in Jackson Hole plus a summer cottage in maine and who at one point owned a chateau in France and who regularly go on extravagant climbing vacations and sailing vacations in their private jet… they’re the problem.
Who would have thought that a system that breeds wealth accumulation at the upper echelons and causes extreme inequality wouldn't end up with resentment.
It’s funny you say that because I literally had to swipe multiple times down in the comments to find the first thread who wasn’t making fun of them or hating for having cash.
It’s the same anytime you post hobbies that require any cash investment on this site.
Make a post about how excited you are to do something and half the comments is fucking losers going “wah this hobby costs money” and berating the poster.
Something tells me most people commenting on this video are not going to bed hungry each day. If they are spending time complaining about a video seems like energy that could be better spent elsewhere.
It’s fine to feel jealous or envious. That’s human.
What’s petty is turning that envy into resentment by inventing a narrative where the person must not deserve what they have. It’s manufacturing a reason for your resentment to feel righteous.
Klar, die ganzen Leute hier sind keine reaktionären Teenies/frustrierte Menschen deren Welt nur aus schwarz-weiß besteht (arm-reich). Hier bei Reddit sind ausschließlich unter der Armutsgrenze lebende, jeden Abend hungernd ins Bett gehende Idealisten die vom System verarscht werden.
People are broke and are upset seeing frivolous spending by the wealthy, I would be pretty miserable too if I had to see rich people living their best lives everyday and I was homeless.
So yes, they are miserable. But it sounds like you're the bastard.
I don't see rich people living their best lives, here I see a happy and wholesome family with both parents seemingly having a loving relationship. I've been miserable, I have Epilepsy, lost my drivers license so I had to move home to commute. I've suffered from lonliness, depression, malnourisment, insomnia and social anxiety, and these videos gave me a purpose, an end goal and reason to keep going. Not to be rich, but to have a happy and wholesome family and friend circle. I use the word bastard fluidliy, so I'm not gonna argue against that
So what I wanna know if that thing js even legal in like, EU or stuff?
Because for example in Germany you have specific car tire sizes you can install on your car - you can't just slap anything there willy nilly. I can imagine having a full blown shower and shit being illegal just on the basis of adding a fuckton of flying projectiles when you're in a crash or something.
Idk, I don't think it would get certified to pass yearly inspections. I'm super curious huh
It is very cool, i like seeing videos of people converting old trucks or buses into living space, however the whole "influencer" thing has now started a trend and they thrust it into peoples faces a little more and hope they get views to keep going and pay for their lifestyle.
Chances are they make a couple videos and then stop. Sell the van, sart a new acccount on a boat.
You are jealous other people have more than you and take that out by writing poor personal attacks about people online. I believe the person who needs to grow up is in fact the one projecting the obvious.
Rich people don't do all the work themselves ffs. They pay people to do it for them. These are people with a unique set of skills and they built something awesome.
How do you know they built it? It's all edited to show action shots and finish shots, but no actual work. They could easily pay a contractor and hop in to hold up cabinetry then take the after shot, which I would not be surprised if they did this here.
Do they? Or do they pay someone else and do tiny little action shots for the gram? Either way, they don't work and have infinite funds to make it work and will call a contractor if they get stuck. It's not next level. They literally cannot fail. By your logic every RV is next level.
The problem is that these "builds" are a genera now. They are all over and these people do it all with brand new custom everything. The dirtbags who I was friends with lived out of shit like a Geo Metro with all of the seats removed and showered once a week at my apartment because he was my clbong buddy. These people are cosplayers acting like the real thing, and it is frankly kind of gross.
No it isn't their job. You clearly have no idea what it actually takes to get modifications like this through a government approval process for sale. At minimum you have to fully build and crash two vehicles just to get it past the NHSB. Then there are all sorts of other state and national certs you need for builds like this. They built this for social media.
You can also go to their YouTube and see they have done this 6x and sell plans and have a business email you can contact them on to buy one. So obviously its their job…..
A week is fine, but that's what makes it a rich people secondary living space thing, a luxury. If anything the main target demographic for these are not the rich but for the utah homeless whitetrash living in trailerparks. It's ridiculous to live in such cramped spaces for long period, especially with "family" as they are advertising. It would otherwise be alright for a single individual living.
they could also just be upper middle class, which is not the enemy. there's people who have more money than they could possibly ever spend in a single life time, a couple modifying a van is not part of the system of exploitong the labor of others for absurd wealth
People should be way more mad about the ultra billionaires and way less mad about wealthy people who do something cool like build an awesome van to spend time with their family.
I'd be less annoyed with it if they didn't call it a "home". I don't believe for a minute that these are people that are gonna live out of a car. And really I just hate people plugging "tiny homes" or "van life" as opposed to "maybe our current distribution of wealth is completely fucked and more people should be angry about it."
And they will always say they don't hate the rich, they hate the one percent, but ultimately anyone with more money than them is the enemy- as seen here.
I can admit I’m salty that this is passed off as a “home” when these people who built all this in a specially outfitted shop on a van that’s easily 100k with no mods and they certainly have no intention of actually living in it, that’s what their expensive home in a hcol city is for. So yeah I’m salty.
Even then though, this looks like every other mb van refit I’ve ever seen. They made it into a small rv while flashing generational wealth on a hobby item that isn’t novel in any way, shape or form at this point. Should we be impressed?
If they had hand painted a cool mural or there was even one unique feature, you’d probably see a few more supportive comments. But there wasn’t. It’s a soulless project for what look to be soulless folks of privilege. Good for them I guess, can’t wait to see their trip to stay in an a-frame luxury cabin while on their family ski trip to the alps or their glamping trips to gasp the same places everyone else takes their luxury “we’re roughing it” vehicles to (PNW forests, Utah deserts, etc.)
People complain no matter what. “This economy” I get it’s frustrating sometimes but it’s all about priorities. Mainly WHERE you live. If you get out of big cities, a lot of their frustrations are eliminated. Like housing. Look at a house in craptastic NJ then look at in SC “oh but then I’d have to live in SC”. Yea you’ve never been to SC then. Beautiful state and nice people. Plenty of homes for $100k and tons of solid jobs. Continental is BEGGING people in my town to work with $10k sign bonus and starting salary of $50k.
All comes down to priorities. Give me 10 min looking at anyone’s bank account and I’ll tell you their problem. The reason you’re poor isn’t because rich people exist. Do they have it easier? Sure, but it’s not what keeps you poor.
They are mad at a van conversion BUSINESS because they wrongly assume these people just are rich and have a whole garage of tools to build a single van.
Even without the credit to their Instagram, it's obvious to anyone who's built anything this isn't a first time success. They clearly know what they are doing. You don't get results like this first try. Especially while trying to film at the same time.
They don't know cuz they've never tried to do anything with their own hands to realize how much effort it takes to becoming truly skilled at something. Rather just sit on reddit and rage about how a 100k conversion is generational wealth lol
Yeah I’m sure on that thread of hundreds of comments no one has ever built anything with their hands, it’s not like the working class is defined by our labour skilled or unskilled which you can’t say for any of the other classes
But sure let’s ignore the economic implications that this feels unattainable for most people that they think a trust fund is needed because their means are so few, your comment reeks of ‘accept it poors’ when you probably enlist our labour in every facet of your life.
The middle class are the worst advocating for a system that props up a club you think you’re in but never will be
Can I get frys with that? Also I'm a working man and who said I'm on the rich side? You're just making shit up. I'm talking about a specific group of people which you seem to be apart of.
But you’re not because you’re illiterate lol the rich boots you’re licking are laughing at you, I’m sorry I’m the first to tell you to your face, I’m working class and can spell a simple word like fries what’s your excuse?
I’m not mad, I think illiteracy is sad, I feel sorry for you life must be hard not being able to spell simple words even with autocorrect at your fingertips
But you are, you're still here commenting aren't you? If you truly didn't care and weren't getting your panties in a twist because you got called out for being a dumb dumb who can't spell you would just walk away from the conversation. It's just reddit after all, right?
Quite the opposite... they are media literate and know how subversive such content is to society.
It's an undisclosed ad for a business which a clickbait title which doesn't reflect reality and are showing a life for rich people which most consumers are not able to afford and make it look effortless without context. This is not good for society.
You don't acknowledging this and suggesting we should just accept such content is not having media literacy.
Only fools spend money on things other than Costco rotisserie chicken, bulk Hanes t shirts and bags of rice! You are going to play with your hoop and stick and you’ll like it
In fairness, if you are 40 and can't afford rent you most likely are living the consequences of your own decisions and actions. So why would anyone value your hatred of people who made better decisions and actions for decades?
Just miserable people all around. Somehow turning this cool video into some virtue-signalling statement about the wealth gap… the ACTUAL 1% is buying fucking yachts and private jets, people! Yall just look bitter and mad about someone else’s success; I’m sorry but it makes u look tacky and pathetic, especially when it’s not even a really a display of wealth
It’s ridiculous and cringey as hell. Anyone who has money is automatically a trust fund baby. It’s impossible that anyone with money actually earned it.
I feel like that's pretty much anywhere on the internet at this point, not limited to just 4chan or Reddit. There will always be people who will assume the worst out of anything.
Maybe you're right cuz I used to hang around a small sub for years before it noticeably got a lot more snarky over the time that I just stopped posting there. I still feel like the internet in general got a lot more miserable ever since the pandemic started, I'm on many other platforms and noticed how people seem to want nothing but negativity on others now :/
Yeah they sound envious, I'm pretty broke but I don't mind people having money and having fun with it. Why should I compare my life to theirs when I have found contentment and gratitude so far.
I wish the people on this website would one day realize that as a matter of fact a lot of their terrible circumstances are due to their own actions and how horrible of a person they are than just luck
Lol keep coping with made up numbers. I'm not rich at all, in fact I grew up very poor, but I acknowledge the fact that I can change my life with the cards I'm dealt with to a certain extent. Keep complaining and staying where you're at, I genuinely don't care lol
This is why we'll never have any real change. Everyone says "eat the rich" but to most people "the rich" aren't billionaires but literally anyone who has anything more than them.
I think the issue is a lot of people are broke and struggling and they don’t want to blame it on their own decisions, they need to blame the system so they don’t feel like it’s their fault.
Everyone is so disenfranchised by society that they literally hate people who are successful.
I know a lot of people who are struggling. Many of them close friends. I know a lot of people who are incredibly successful.
There's a stark difference between the two. The people who are unsuccessful are typically aimless and unwilling to commit to specific trades or education standards for long periods of time. They always want to shortcut life and seem to flitter from opportunity to opportunity never understanding that long-term commitment is what builds success. I know successful people who are not very intelligent but just hard-working.
Time in the market always outperforms timing the market.
What Reddit is missing in this case is the fact that if these people were "trust fund babies" (or just really successful people you know?) they would have just bought a 300k van build and moved on with their life.
Instead they put the hard work in and dialed in a incredible van build that you couldn't possibly buy with money.
That shows good work ethic and commitment on the builders part. You know the kinds of qualities that you would find in successful people?
This is Reddit in a nutshell. A bunch of miserable fucking losers who want to project their miserable experience on everyone else.
Yeah its wild, these two actually worked really hard to get here. They were physiotherapists (takes about 8 years to become one) and clearly put a lot of effort into their social platform and van business. Envy is next level here.
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u/Conner14 15h ago
Jeez these comments