Misconception of Wealth

Has anyone ever niticed how sooo many people, white trash in particular, have such a gross misconception of wealth and more specifically what is valuable and why. After growing up in the woods of Vermont and spending the last 5 years in northwestern Maine, I have seen this proven soo many times on sooo many levels. I first encountered this as a child, when like most kids i wa sgetting into collectable trading cards. Now by no means were we like out parents, putting ted williams cards in the spokes of out bikes to make them sound cooler, thats just painful to think about. Most of me and my freinds however held on to them and swapped then back and fourth like small market general managers do today. However I had one freind who didnt do this. He was my only freind who lived in a trailer and his parents would not let him open his baseball card packs. now dont get me wrong I realize that unopened packs or cards do gain some value down the road, but that was not their reasoning, they seemed to think that all the cards lost all of their value the second that foil packaging was opened. Note they also had a massive TV and the best cable package money could buy. This was my first encounter with this misconception of value/wealth. I could never understand why these people who lived in a trailer and wouldnt even let their son enjoy baseball cards somehow had a killer TV and cable package. Fast foward a few years I have another freind living in a similar situation whos parents would spend hundreds of dollars on Beanie Babies every month, ya, Beanie Babies, remember those things? Anyway me being kind of a smart kid one time asked them why they didnt sell them? this was around the peak of the fad when some were worth a coupple hundred bucks a piece on ebay. I was abruptly told that, that would be stupid that since at the rate they had been gaining value their collection would be worth hundreds of thousands in ten years... Nuff said. My final and most recent major encounter was when I worked at an major chain resturant with an Italian theme. One of my co-workers, who will go unnamed, had, not only 98' Cavilier with speakers worth more then the car, and a "top of the line mongouse mountain bike" but "a PS2 game collection worth id think a coupple thousand". That was the kicker, not only did the guy care more about how loud his speakers were, then the actual insurance he had on his car, which there wasnt, but he seemed to think his 300 + PS2 games were worth the same as when he bought them!! Why is it that white trash generally has such a gross misconception of appreciation depreciation and just money in general. Now these arent things you need to take an economisc class to understand this is pretty baisc shit. So why, why, are there soooo many people who don't seem to get it? I though tof this today when I saw hundreds of people loading expensive electronics into beater cars and ancient minivans while driving past best buy today. If you can laugh at this article it means you get it and have a lot to be thankful for.