He was very serious about it being evil. He was trying to tell me I would not be able to tell the difference in anything over $300, and how spending that much was why America is horrible, consumerism, blah blah blah. I sort of stopped listening. We are both very stubborn people, so I just stopped arguing eventually. I knew I could not change his mind. I honestly just believe it is Jealousy. Anything better than he has, must be evil. I have also been criticized by him for going to Private school. Apparently we are all stuck up snobs that believe ourselves better than everyone else. He tried explaining how that made him better than private schoolers, such as myself. It did not make a whole lot of sense. I live in New Orleans, where unfortunately the public school system is worse than most, and if you want a quality education you have to pay for it. It is getting better, and if I am lucky things will be dramatically different by the time I have a wife and kids. I have no intention of paying the kind of money for my kids education that my parents spent on mine. I ran into one of my high school teachers last year and I was told tuition is now up to $17,000 a year. That is obscene. I start Nursing school this fall and I think tuition + books will cost me around $4,000 a year. Do you realize how many pairs of Beats you can buy for $17,000.