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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Troubador" data-source="post: 3499278" data-attributes="member: 109211">OK Jerry and I know just what you mean about wine 'experts'.But going back to the 911 you draw a distinction between 'better' and 'different' . Now, everyone is entitled to their own definition of 'better' and for some people it might be what you would call merely 'different'.Some folks love the view through Leicas and for many it is the warmth of the view they love. Objectively it is arguable that isn't better at all, merely different, but why shouldn't folks like it?I have some sympathy for your definition of pride of ownership relating to maintaining stuff yourself and I guess if you had to save hard for years to buy whatever it is then that whole situation adds up to a hard-won pride. I can relate to that, thinking back to my youth when I eventually was able to afford a BMW motorcycle that would cruise comfortably for hundreds of miles and take me and Troubadoris to places like the Shetland Isles and yes I did the maintainance myself and was proud of it.From that viewpoint I can see how just having the cash to buy anything you want would seem like cheating and not a genuine way to get pleasure of ownership. But the democrat (not a political party) in me is reluctant to label all wealthy people as folks who have 'all the gear and no idea'. Lee</blockquote>