Pudutr0n

I don't care for moths.

I can't speak for him but lots of people follow whatever religion's values and may appreciate the metaphors of their sacred texts without engaging in the rituals or belonging to the religion as a community/organization.

I don't care for moths.

I like your version better. Those cheese strategists can suck it.

Still less dramatic than some of my exgfs.

People can get used to anything.

I'm running the "terminally online" version and when I try thinking about it my kernel panics and then starts requesting me to turn off critical system processes. Is there a tech support number I can not call to not fix this issue I'm unwilling to face, making it worse? Or idk... somewhere I can scream into without being told not to, due to insurance coverage issues?

Should have considered that before they installed it in my self esteem.

To some people in my country, taking someone to mcdonalds is a nice date. Financial context is relevant to understand the emotional intention of a material gesture.

Taking advantage of someone and being friends with them are incompatible things. If you assume by default that the best thing to do with someone wealthy or poor is to take advantage of them, what do you think that says about how much relevance you are assigning to "how much money they have" regarding someone's value as a person?

It's very likely not charity to them.

Think about it this way. If you had a really good friend that maybe wasn't doing as well financially and you had to get them something for their birthday, and you knew there was something they wanted that they couldn't afford but you could easily get for them, would you feel like you were doing charity or just something nice for a nice person?

Don't let pride get in the way. Just think about what's best for your kid and if he gets some nice things here and there, no big deal as long as he's not getting hurt or used.

It could actually end up being a valuable friendship and not cause of how rich these people are. You never know.

Lots of parents, rich or otherwise, just want their kids to shut up. Many rich people do this by getting their kids anything they ask for. This is actually a pretty toxic form of neglect. My bet is the kid friend asked if he could get an iphone for his friend too, because OPs kid expressed how cool rich kid's previous phone was or smth at some point, so... kid wanted to do something nice and parents didn't give a fuck and just "yeah yeah, sure"'d it.