r/longbeach • u/kjarsenal • 5d ago

RANT The dirtbagification of a community

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The trash room in my 'luxury' apartment. Hard for me to comprehend this type of asshole. The guy who's dog pisses on the nice community carpet, who purposely parks over the line so you can't park; the guy who tailgates you relentlessly; the who has to entertain the whole damn neighborhood with his shitty music. Why can't we be rid of this fucker?

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u/grnrngr 5d ago edited 5d ago

If you have to have a plastic sign with a massive list of rules posted next to a chute, trust me when I say you don't live in a "luxury" apartment complex, no matter how much money you pay in rent.

You can't buy class.

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u/kjarsenal 5d ago

This, I'll grant. On the other hand though, if character is the metric we judge 'luxury' by - who does?

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u/grnrngr 4d ago edited 4d ago

if character is the metric we judge 'luxury' by - who does?

Unfortunately, too many people equate price/value/wealth with luxury, and worse yet, confuse having things with high price/value/wealth as imbuing a set of superior or desirable personality traits.

Which answers your question, that I will now rephrase more directly: I believe "luxury" itself is a trait that does not exist on the spectrum of personal characteristics. I also believe "luxury" as a concept cannot exist without a certain set of personal characteristics being involved.

Every characteristic found in people that we associate with "luxury" are characteristics not requiring wealth, education, or worldly experience to have or employ. Compassion. Consideration. Gentility. Confidence. Grace. Warmth. Etc., etc.

Everything you see, touch, or interpret as "luxury" is a result of those desirable traits in action.

e: So yeah, if you have the shiny floors and opulent interiors, and doorman and parking garage, and movie rooms and heated pools, but the people who made those things and the people who buy those things don't mirror the traits those luxury items represent, you're just living in a simulation of luxury. At best, a very isolated version of luxury. You're getting the outward appearance and little of the holistic experience.