Going back a few decades, or so, I noted the teenagers who had to pay for their own tires learned to respect their equipment better than the silver spoon crowd.
I loved to burn off tires in my car back in high school days. Fortunately I worked at a service station and we never sold "used" tires, just gave them to the recycler. I'd always make sure they were bald first. 
Yeah, I was a baaad boy 8^)