It is very sad to me that it took some back and forth on beer - literal foam - to push this thread to 20 pages. Are co workers really so dim? Or is it just selective perception?
I think it is more likely that we just don't see the anti-anti-mustachians because they're not flashy. And there are different levels of it—I think this thread is mostly just “mustachians spotted in the wild” rather than “financially responsible”—which while not mustachian, is also not anti-mustachian.
For instance, my director makes good money, is the type who never wants to retire because he really does enjoy what he does. He eats out lunch every day, and spends probably $50 a week on coffee. However, he has a car that is 20 years old, rides his bike to work quite often, bought his first house when he was 22, has Netflix instead of cable, etc.
Another colleague owns a condo, has roommates, brings her lunch to work. She, along with her brother, did about 25% of the work herself on her kitchen demo and renovation. But the kitchen didn’t need a reno, she just wanted it. She’s certainly not mustachian, but not anti-mustachian either.
But like I said in my first statement, the true anti-anti mustachians are hard to identify. People don’t brag out loud about increasing their 401k contributions or not buying a new car or not going out to dinner.