Reminds me of the equipment auction I was at yesterday. I went there to bid on a older model D8 Caterpillar dozer for the family farm. My dad said if it looks Okay and runs fair bid it up to $7500. It was owned by the county and was in superb condition other than some the pivot points for the blade were worn and the paint was rough. It was a mid 1950's model but it ran like it was new and everything still worked well.
About 15 minutes from when they got to the dozer he showed up. He looked it over and complained about the bad paint and the worn parts. He only bid it up to $5500 and felt that it wasn't worth much more and we will find a better one for less! WTF?
(and yes he can afford it. He probably could by a brand new one and pay cash if he wanted to!)
$100 in paint and a days worth of welding and I could have it looking and working like new! A good used D8 Cat goes for around $15 - $25 thousand!
But he expected bigger and better for less. (Its a large part of why our farm equipment is old worn out crap.) Plus for some reason he is convinced he will rent one for a month for less.
I spent about $1400 for a weeks rental of a machine a fifth of that size ten years ago.
Too many people dont appreciate what they have and have the access too. It makes me mad.
And yes if the bank would loan me money I would have bought it myself. Hiring a machine that big with operator costs about $2000 a day now. I could have paid it off in a summers time just doing a few local field and pasture leveling jobs for neighbors.
I hate seeing people act like if something not brand new and yet not given to them its not worth having. I worked my butt off to get what I have now and do what I can to maintain. It just bugs me when someone says they will help me out with what ever they can and then drops the ball when it comes time to help me out after agreeing to what it was I was asking for help on. Especially when it something that would be of a mutual benefit to the both of us.
I fully agree with what the guy in the video is saying. Too many people just dont think about or appreciate what we have today. Some days I sort of wish that things would get far more worse for many people just to wake them up and make them see what they have around them and what they take for granted.
Some days I am probibly one of them but not many days.