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Tell you what I’d get if I was rich, OP:
Lightweight gear. You can pretend you’re flexing on people with your Hilleberg tent, but the real flexers are the outdoorsmen who breeze past you with their tiny monk tier packs, set up in 2 minutes and have time, space and money to carry all the drinks and extra food they want.
I would shell out for Cuben fibre errything, I would buy an Arc’teryx Norvan coat (arguably the single best lightweight jacket available, everyone in the ultralight community eyes this bad boy up). I would pay an experienced ultralight backpacker to appraise my gear and drill out holes, cut off unnecessary straps, snip things down and push my baseweight to below 5lb.
But at the end of the day, it costs nothing to leave gear behind, or to customise it to be exactly what you need and nothing more. That ascetic mindset can only be achieved with experience, not money, so get out their with your Wal-Mart and REI gear for a few trips, talk to people, spend your bourgeoisie free time researching XUL gearlists and challenge yourself, because it’s fucking fun to minmax your gear, improve improve improve and step into the woods with what feels like a backpack full of air on your back.
Also, watch it. Your money will disappear quickly if you feel compelled to spend. Steve jobs lived in a modest apartment with a tiny amount of modest possessions, compare that to the niggerrich who flex on their peers and buy $30,000 rims and custom snakeskin Jordans then go bankrupt. You’ll be just as happy with a thrift shop perfect pair of boots or jacket as you would be with the “muh luxury muh top of the line” bullshit. This is coming from someone who once dropped $2000 on a jacket in college to flex and because I thought “it was an investment” because >muh higher quality!
