@ctlawyer
There are definitely way too many people following the Joneses and living a lifestyle they can’t afford. I am assuming that you live in CT. But if you’d only see what’s going on in “in town” communities, it is ostentatious beyond any belief. Way too many people are going to Orlando than can afford. The restaurants that are now $500 a plate is insane. People go to say they went and not because they can always afford it.
Now what’s wrong if you can afford it? There is a lot wrong with these out of hand spending.
1) it creates peer pressure
2) you ever thought about what it does to the next generation even if parents aren’t the ones following the Jones’s? And the next generation goal is to be the next billionaire because this lifestyle with private jets etc. There is no way to shield your kids from seeing this and it becomes their goal
3) Are you really thinking about Hashem when you go on live this kind of lifestyle? There is so much prikas oyl.
I don’t Care how much tzedaka you give. This Outlandish lifestyle is disgusting and it’s corrupting so many people.