>>11271335The tragic thing about huge, mind-blowingly awesome toys is that they can only be afforded by the parents of spoiled kids who won't be impressed by them.
When I was young, my next door neighbor was the son of some young bitch who was getting alimony and child support from two ex-husbands, so she had a fuckton of money. She bought her kids all kinds of shit that they didn't appreciate. Every Christmas he would basically get an entire fucking toyline with all playsets and accessories, and by Easter, everything would be lost, broken, or forgotten. It blew my mind as a kid. I wasn't poor, but I valued the things I was given. It seemed offensive to me to be given so much, yet appreciate so little.
Similar scenario with my brother's kids nowadays; both he and his wife make a lot of money, and his in-laws are all landlords. Those kids are spoiled rotten. Their house is FILLED with toys and games. Watching them open Christmas presents yesterday was insane; they'd open something that cost easily $100 or more, poke at it a bit, then lose interest. I'll go over to help babysit on weekends months after Christmas, and there will still be toys they haven't even opened. The only good thing about that is that my brother is pretty good about forcing them to donate things they don't want, but honestly that's out of necessity because if he didn't, that house would be literally packed with toys from top to bottom.
