• InvalidName2@lemmy.zip
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    7 days ago

    It’s not a political thing. As best I can determine, it’s a status symbol thing.

    We can argue back and forth about the aesthetics of it, but at the end of the day it’s expensive to look like that, so they’re signaling that they have boat-ox loads of expendable income (or at least they want to give that illusion).

    Signaling one’s wealth is something that transcends political party by a country mile as the saying goes in my part of the world.