QuazyQuinton
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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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