I love how there’s zero room for the possibility that they just worked hard for their money. Nope, had to be a handout. Anything to subvert your own failures in life. Just broke and delusional lmao.
No, but you need some wealth. Too few of us have even that any more and it's only getting worse. Of course the general public feels the rub, we're only human.
“Do well for themselves” is a bit of a spectrum. I’ve done well for myself, and I’d count myself amongst the (few) people that could afford to do a project like this.
I can also empathize with what it’s like to see videos like this when you don’t have money. Let’s not mince words, this van project, even doing it all yourself, is a $150k (minimum) project. In addition, they’re building it in a very, very nice autoshop with access to what I would guess is around $250k in shop, tools, etc separate from the van build itself. Unironically this van build is probably about as expensive as the median Ferrari is.
I am also pretty involved in the overlanding community. If you took 100 people with Mercedes van builds, conservatively about 80 of them are dipping into a trust fund to do so. Another 10 are tech entrepreneurs, and another 10 are “regular” people who saved up enough money to do this instead of a house.
I guess this is all to say, while I can afford this, I don’t blame people for outlining that this isn’t some quirky build, and is in fact more than most people will be able to afford in their lives.
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u/thesupercoolmarketer 17h ago
I love how there’s zero room for the possibility that they just worked hard for their money. Nope, had to be a handout. Anything to subvert your own failures in life. Just broke and delusional lmao.