Yes, I know. Please see the post I was responding to.
Servants. Like people to wait on you, be at your beck and call, like that!
Sure it sounds awesome, your every whim indulged! But all servants come with an enormous loss of privacy. As they are underfoot, in your house. Even if they have their own quarters and are forbidden to look you in the eye or speak to you, you’re still not ‘alone’, in your home. Ever! You’re actually just taking on more dependants.
Now think about famous movie and music stars with big old houses, with gardens and pools, tennis courts. That’s a lot of support staff to maintain all that stuff!
No thank you, I’d much rather my privacy!
It is a small annual parade (small by NYC standards). There was a flock of guys with cameras following the breasts so that they’d have pictures of bare breasts for their wank banks. It is one thing to look as they pass. It’s another, far more pathetic thing, to follow and record.
ok; I agree
Depends on the person. My sister-in-law’s brother spent a couple of weeks in a vacation resort in which the umbrella drinks were refilled before they’d even been emptied, towels were replaced as soon as you had used one to dry up after exiting the pool, and loved it.
His sister’s response to the story was “the first time it happened, I would have gotten paranoid. The second time, I would have gone postal! …Husband of mine?”
“Yes?”
“If you ever hear me wish for servants, please call the cops, I’ve been abducted by aliens.”
“Will do, my love.”
The expression you voice when you’re ravenously hungry, “I could eat a horse,” is probably not all that truthful or desired in actuality. If it is, I wonder how they’d go about it? Baked? Boiled? Fried? Grilled? As is? Sauced? Go-withs? Uhhh… anybody got some TUMS™?
Then there’s that guy who wants to be an Oscar Mayer™ weiner. Yeesh!
I’ve known people who got houses and found this out. You are paying for a crumbling interior with a pretty exterior. Like buying a Jaguar car.
I’ll add to the list. Antique furniture. People think it is quaint and nice however I recently talked to a guy who spent time in a house full of antique furniture. He said the chairs were uncomfortable and made his back hurt. Sometimes a modern chair with lumbar support is better than an antique.
Oh, there’s comfortable antique furniture, too. It’s just that how well something lasts doesn’t have much to do with how comfortable it is.
Along the same lines as being famous, how about being in a romantic relationship with some celebrity or another? Sure, they’re is hot, but is their personality compatible with yours? Do you two have any common interests? Is the celebrity actually interested in you, and will they stay interested for as long as you stay interested in them? And all that is even assuming that they’re sane and stable, which many aren’t.
Gamers are really prone of asking for things they think they want in their games but which would actually ruin the whole thing - everything should be easier with less hassle and drop rates should be higher and why is this fight such bullshit and so on and on. And if the developers would do all those changes the game would suddenly be too easy and too short and boring. Or if they would listen to the other vocal minority, too hard.
Socialism / communism
This was my first thought. We had sailboats for most of our marriage, but when I retired 5 years ago, we did the math and decided there were things we’d prefer to spend our limited income on, and the boat wasn’t one of them, so we sold it. And, honestly, except for the rare day when we say “Wouldn’t it be nice to go out on the Bay?” we actually find we don’t miss the maintenance, the haul-outs, the worries when storms come thru, the periodic trips to the marina to make sure all is OK.
We might buy one if we hit the lottery, assuming we’d have won enough to be able to hire someone to do all the dirty work. 
The other thing is the big dream house. I’ve known people who buy the big house they always wanted when they were a young couple crammed into a small place with kids and dogs and all that. The kids are on their own, and you’ve got 2 people in a huge place that has to be cleaned, maintained, heated, cooled, insured… I have to wonder how often the kids visit that they need all those spare bedrooms, and how long till they realize that two people just don’t need 5000 sq ft.
Higher minimum wages.
It sounds good on paper, and it makes us all want the poor working-class mother to afford to feed her family…
…but the added cost will either end up eliminating jobs or it will cause your burger that previously cost 1.08 to cost 4.95.
I was going to say this.
I know couples who have done it and it was not what they expected.
Caused problems for some of them.
Also free markets. Sure, everyone is about the free market until their job gets outsourced or the price of a drug skyrockets. Then it’s all “someone should do something”. Well that “someone” is “government” and that “something” is “regulation” which you didn’t want.
I suspect msmith537 and Chimera to name two will be familiar with these…
In every project where I’ve worked, there has been someone who wanted things “tighter”. One of my favorites, both because it comes up often and because that particular monkey cage is someone else’s to clean, “zero tolerance” on deliveries. You set an order for 22 tons of sand, and the sand in the truck weighs 22153kg? Rejected!
Another, “people must only have access to exactly what they need”. OK, so you want us to make sure that the lab tech who analyzes raw materials is the only one who can analyze raw materials? “Yes!!! What, wasn’t I clear?” Oh yes, very clear. So, what happens when he is on vacation, or gets a real bad case of the flu?
I’ve encountered people who still insisted that yes, that had to be the only person who could inspect raw materials. If the guy was off, well, Production would have stopped dead (not in the physical world, but in the computer) and so would Sales, and Shipping, and oh yeah, Mr. Genius, are you familiar with “invoices”?
Having been raised a nudist, this is absolutely true. Most people are not particularly attractive naked. Do not go to a nudist camp to get your jollies unless you’re really into pot bellies and National Geographic-style pendulous dugs.
Back in the 60’s, there was actually a multi-year documentary on TV about that very issue.
Owning your own business. A lot of people dream of quitting their crappy job and starting their own business (myself included) but you may wind up putting in twice the hours that you did at the old job, for far less money. Not to mention the toll it takes on your family.
A pony. 
As I learned doing the Call Center thing;
“You can give some people a pony and they’ll just complain that it craps on the carpet.”
Moving “out to the country”. Done it; it kinda sucks. Need anything that’s not sold at the one store in town? That’s a 20 minute trip, each way. Gas prices went up? Now every errand trip is an extra $10. You tend not to see your friends much anymore, either, since they don’t want to use their whole day to visit.