Two sides of the same coin.
When I was in my 20s I had all the energy and creativity, but couldn't afford the means to put them to good use.

Now in my 40s I have the necessary disposable income, but my energy has been zapped by trying to get on top of this adulting business. I still get a creative burst, but I have to manage my projects so that I can stick to something I'm actually able to complete.

When I was 38 I finally able to get that sports car I always wanted and my twit of a neighbor who had 6 kids and pregnant with #7 condescendingly said that it was my mid life crises car.

My response was there is no mid life crises there was always a lack of money crises..

Could have fooled me: I’m old and have no money

When I was young, I had energy but no money. When I'm older, I'll have money but no energy. It's only now in my 30s and 40s that I have... neither. 😔

I’m old. What’s money?

The logical correlation would be money is wasted on the rich. Youth --> young : Money --> rich

IOW the idea is about not appreciating what you have ("you don't know what you've got til it's gone"). So young people not appreciating the youth they have is in the same vein as rich people not appreciating the money they have.

Whoever finds a way to convert money into youth is on a winner.

Money is wasted on the rich and their lavish culture. Don't be ageist about it.

Neither is a waste, but neither is fair.

The young are paid with youth, while the elderly are paid with currency.

That's actually why the used market for BMWs is such trash. If you want a manual transmission good luck finding one because the original buyers are the people OP is talking about. People who actually know which cars are good tend to be poor people lol

I often see people driving fast cars like Teslas as if gravity will instantly throw them off the road if they turn the car at faster speeds than 10 mph. They brake like 20 seconds before they are gonna turn, then go slowly slowly towards the street they want to turn in to, then they almost stop and turn the steering wheel.

Not frustrating at all to be behind one of those...

I think some people dont know how gravity works when they are in a car, so they act like they are controlling an oil tanker, just in case.

Yep, never seen a young person with an expensive car before

I doubt age has anything to do with it. She likely was not begging in the streets when she was young.

the quote is by George Bernard Shaw

Wisdom is wasted on the old, and youth is wasted on the young

nothing to do with money, everything to do with the accumulated wisdom of years of living and the ignorant confidence of youth.

If you imagine a line graph, there’s supposed to be a crossover point between the two, a sweet spot.

You are the one who ultimately decides when and how large that sweet spot is.