Artists shall rule the future.
Staring at my Prius Lamborghini this morning… The truth of the matter is, it’s probably like the coolest car of all time. The other day I pulled up to curb and there was a little boy who ran and screamed super loud, wow great car!
I think the reason why this was so important to me was, the hilarious thing is this kid who’s like maybe seven years old, probably has no idea about cars in terms of how expensive some are and some are not. Yet he had the personal intelligence of knowing, that my car, with the insanely high visibility 3M wrap, which kind of looks like a combination of hyena meets cheetah meets glitch in the matrix, he obviously knew it was cool.
A lot of people have been asking me about the car, and the truth the matter is, I think the best way to think about it is this like infinite work in progress, it is essentially my personal art car.
The truth is, ever since I was like 15 years old and I got my drivers permit, I’ve actually always been into cars. For me the car has always been a symbol of freedom, pride, performance and more.
What else? To be an American, is all about your car. When you’re out in the streets or in public, nobody has any idea how many bitcoins you own, or how many square foot your house is. Cars are interesting because at the same time, they are insanely superficial, and also, insanely important to society.
For example, Elon Musk who is like probably the greatest innovator and entrepreneur of all time, hit the head on the nail, and knowing that what America wanted and desired and secretly lusted after,,, was like an insanely bold brand new innovative new thought and approached to cars.
The truth is, a car especially a tesla vehicle or any sort of electric car, is probably the worst “investment“, on the planet.  I speak the truth because, I have never spent more than $2500 USD on a car in my whole adult life and I 37 years old. And I’m also the richest person I know, the most wealthy and the most successful person I know, in real life in terms of how poor I grew up, my mom filing for bankruptcy twice, as a result of my dad gambling away the rent money an idea that I learned is, some thoughts like a dozen times, and also, almost becoming homeless twice as well.
I think from an early age, I suppose the upside is that it actually really really taught me some important things about life, money finances, life on the planet etc.
So the first thought is, just do the math. Even as a kid I was able to do this very very simply, essentially… Chelating things from a simple mathematical equation. Like for example if you’re earning $25 an hour as a security guard, you could do the math on how much that $90,000 hellcat is going to run you.
Or even if you’re like a tech employee, making $500,000 a year, but you’re leasing your whole life, and your 2 1/2 kids in your 2 1/2 dogs are all going to private school, and you have outstanding loans from Harvard business school or whatever… And you have some sort of kid you are paying child support for, once again… Do the math, you should know what you can afford and not.
I think the really big idea is, especially after being in Cambodia for like six months and coming back, I think I kind of know the true price of things. And at this point, I’m very reticent to spend money on anything. 
I’ll give you a first example with clothes. There is at least a 10 X markup on clothes, sometimes 50 X to 100 X.
Those cool designer jeans which cost you $200? Maybe a cost like five bucks in Cambodia. Those $700 Balenciaga’s? Maybe seven dollars in a factory in Italy, being made by mainland Chinese people, but in a factory somewhere in the outskirts of Italy.
I think once again cars are like the worst investment of all time because once again… At this point, getting some sort of like secondhand vehicle, a hand me down or some sort of like Prius… Is like by far the best deal on the planet.
For example, I even had this funny idea of a new business idea of just taking old 2010 Priuses, rebranding and re-badging them, and re-upgrading them, with the newest components, maybe throw on some Lamborghini doors, and some gangsta 3M wrap, air edition, and just sell them for a profit as art cars.
In fact, this is what Andy Warhol, and also, Roy Lichtenstein did ,,, for BMW. When you mark something as art, essentially the price on it is infinite.