Buying a $4k DateJust does not communicate status to the people whose approval this advice is courting. It may communicate a crude kind of ambition, but it also communicates posing and a bit of desperation .

Kind of like owning a C Class Mercedes “communicates” that you bought the cheapest model.

On the other hand…

If you’d have bought a modest, unassuming Timex automatic for $200 in March of 2020 and used the remaining $3.8k to buy 1 Bitcoin, you could have a decent Submariner now and put the remaining $85K to use on an appropriate networking/career wardrobe to fit the watch and your aspirations.

Or.

You could have just kept the 1 #BTC, stuck with the Timex, and realized that the outward trappings of wealth aren’t what ultimately make you successful at work or at love.