Originally Posted by
mustang1
poverty
"Bikes are to cars as
poverty is to money"??
I hardly think so. I'd say "Bikes are to cars as
financial freedom is to money". It's not really about
financial freedom as much as it is about freedom in general. It's a state of mind that enables that freedom rather than finances.
Henry David Thoreau makes the same point in Walden, throughout the entire book, really, but this passage is a good example.
It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fashions which the herd so diligently follow.... I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way.