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[nickonline]

It's really not some crazy idea. I'm sure you've heard

"My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel,"

[antisthenes → nickonline]

That reads more like a joke about Land Rover maintenance costs.

[s_q_b → nickonline]

Yeah, it's so common as to have become a television trope.

It's not difficult to see how a life of luxury can cause one to divorce the notion of wealth (or power) from the hard work necessary to obtain it.

[nxzero → nickonline]

Formal name for the pattern is regression toward the mean:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean

[gohrt → nickonline]

that quote is just about oil running out.

[gozur88 → gohrt]

The source of the quote, Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, died in 1990. By my reckoning the last Land Rover generation will have been born by now.