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When I visited the US 80% also drove a car with dents.
When I was growing up in the US south we had a lot of retirees from up north who’d brag about how everyone where they were from knew how to drive in the snow and ice and we were pansies for not wanting to. I spent a few years working up north and those mofos have cars that look like they’ve been through a demolition derby coming out of every winter. They don’t know how to drive on it but they try anyway.
So many corporations are about to start losing money in their pursuit of being greedy and fucking us over for more money. Like at this point I have enough money for food. That’s mostly it.
I have a friend in America who has to take 2-3 jobs just to be able to afford rent and basic living. It’s shocking that things have gotten to that point
It’s been that way since I graduated highschool back in the early 2000s. It just been getting worse since then.
the problem with capitalism is eventually you run out of poor people’s money
That’s certainly the problem I’m having
Marketplace on NPR yesterday was boasting about how job creation was outpacing population growth, and they claimed that the US was employing more people.
My ass was thinking “that logic only works if it’s one person, one job. And that isn’t the case for many Americans these days.”
Yep, Biden is making a huge mistake by leaning into the whole ‘actually, the economy is great according to these indicators we’ve picked!’. People know better from personal experience.
The thing is that according to liberal ideas, the economy IS doing great.
Anyone to the left of Joe Biden recognizes that it isn’t, but liberals are the majority of the democratic party. To them the “traditional” economic markers are the most important things to track, and those numbers all look good.
“Liberal” economic ideas have nothing to do with the living conditions of the average person, they have everything to do with the capitalist class being happy and “opportunity” being available to the working class. That’s why the economy in the 1910s could be described as healthy even though people were literally forced to live in tenement houses and were being locked into factories. That’s also why many liberal economists say that it’s possible for unemployment to get too low, because apparently that’s considered bad.
The question Joe Biden is answering when he says the economy is doing well is “are the capitalists happy and continuing to expand capitalism to extract as much wealth as possible from the working class,” and right now that answer is clearly yes.
Liberals don’t want employment to get too low, because that would give the working class actual negotiating power over working conditions without even having the need for unions.
And Trump is taking advantage of this. Motherfucker has zero shame in lying to workers, telling them that his presidency will make their lives better, and then never say how that will happen. His platform is “trust me, I’m a rich guy.”
I can’t afford a used car either so I’m driving this Subaru until it’s unrepairabe. It’s nearly old enough to vote.
My Subaru will likely outlast me anyhow.
My rent eats 45% of my income. Ya im going to the cheapest car dealership and buying a used car that runs.
Yes we can! Just get it at 15% apr over 96 months. What’s the problem?
Why don’t these people just make more money!?
Even the economy d class cars in America are about 3/4 of my yearly pay.
That’s ok, you only need 5% to buy new cars annually.
Occupy Wall Street should have gone full French revolution.
It wasnt even as bad at that point.
Perhaps organising a society where buying a new car is an expected thing that the typical person does is not optimal?
All I want to buy is a ticket for a new train
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fuck cars
Yeah, fixing the financial reasons would be a nice bonus, but the root cause is the absolute failure that was/is/will continue to be the suburban experiment
Personally I can’t handle all the chemicals and death wax in a new car. I rented a nearly brand new Nissan, and the agent acted like “wow, you’re lucky, this one only has 400 miles!” Oh… great… yep, had to have the windows down the whole time and basically drive with my head out the window.
The economy sure is doing well /s
You cant afford a new house. You cant afford a new car. Healthcare costs are the single largest cause of bankrupcy and financial strain is the single largest cause of divorce. But at least the billionaires are thriving.
Don’t forget they also made college unaffordable and made sure you can’t get rid of student loans in bankruptcy. Charming place this is.
Don’t forget they created derivates based on that debt, because they “learned” from '08 how home mortgage debt derivatives isn’t as safe as they thought.
Good thing that non-dischargeable debt is nice and safe and won’t be wiped by government action, because that would make tiers of derivatives worthless and unwind multiples of the economy into a crater. That is why they fought against wiping student loan debts.
this is all gonna snap, probably all at once
Choppity chop
“Eat the rich” is honestly where we’re headed. And I don’t mean literally eat I mean TAKE THEIR WEALTH.
Until billionaires are made illegal, and “real estate investment” (i.e. predatory price gouging on homes/apartments) is made illegal, everything is gonna continue getting more fucked. It’s too little too late though, greed has destroyed our planet. We’ve got front row seats to the downturn of human civilization.
I’m stocking up on canned food, and I’ve never been the doomsday prepper type. Honestly I think we’re about to enter a protracted global depression that makes ‘08 look like a speedbump.
This is an example of hating other people irrationally.
And I don’t mean literally eat I mean TAKE THEIR WEALTH.
Why not both?
Gonna start googling long pork recipes - wonder if I can make some good tacos al pastor…
Because people who scream eat the rich, also scream ban firearms…you need those to be able to eat the rich.
I’d use knife and fork but you do you.
Pitchforks and torches work well enough. They’re more fun also. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Nooo no no no no. Those two things are not the same.
You’re confusing liberals and leftists
The immigrant crisis around the globe is also at a tipping point. Climate change and corporate greed have fucked many places in the world out of habitability.
Immigrants aren’t going to stop coming because the alternative is a slow and miserable death or the threat of cartel governments. Now western countries don’t want to take care of them and don’t want to deal with them at all, because immigrants demand resources and we need all that money to hide in congress’ ratholes.
Well if we hadn’t fucking destroyed the planet in the blink of an eye maybe they wouldn’t all need to come to europe. If we hadn’t waged this stupid fucking war on drugs then maybe south/central americans wouldn’t need to flee cartel zones for fear of their entire village being beheaded and dumped in a pit.
America and Europe are only beginning to reap what we’ve sown over the last 50 years and we already want to throw in the towel.
Shit is going to get far worse, everywhere, imminently.
Maybe it will get worse in the future, but what resources do immigrants require? They don’t need nannies or childcare or schooling…they just work, consume and pay taxes like everyone else. Has this ever been a problem for the US? Up to the 1930s, the US had an immigration of over 11% of population, the same as it’s been since the 2000s. https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/immigrant-population-over-time
I won’t even mention the EU, we’re in demographic suicide here because raising
kidspeople until they have a job and a house and stability is fucking expensive xP
Literally eating a significant portion of them would probably lead to the most rapid cause-and-effect changes taking place though.
'08 never actually ran its course. They kicked the can in the hopes they would be able to not have it actually bear its foul fruit.
The derivates market is overleveraged, some entities over 30X. They are holding the hot potato and hoping it will cool off as they hold a blowtorch to it, as a manner of business.
But at least the billionaires are thriving.
If the loud ones (e.g. Elon) are any indication, I don’t really think this is true either.
Elon isnt doing badly because of the economy, hes doing badly because hes a moron. Most billionaires arent “struggling” to grow their wealth.
I agree with your point and also don’t really care how they’re handling having obscene wealth and untold power over everyone else, I just think it’s worth pointing out that giving these rich assholes exactly what they want doesn’t make them happier either. It’s a losing situation all around (though obviously more for people on the bottom).
- a house.
My Accord is old enough to vote and I’ll be driving it until it dies. Or until I do.
Hey, my Accord could start high school! Congrats to us 🤡
I’ve always driven cars until they die…or in the case of my 2007 Accord a my son totals it. 😑 I do as much of my own work as possible too.
I truly don’t get the point of getting a new car just to get a new car.
Not trying to tell you how to live your life, I totally understand the mentality, but for me it was a revolutionary jump in technology.
From having to drive in stop and go traffic to just letting the car do it has been magical for me. I can now do a 6+ hour drive and no longer be absolutely wrecked at the end. Not that I do it often, but it’s usually for a family thing or a vacation, so both things that I kinda want to be cognisant for.
That plus all the safety stuff like a backup camera, the beeping when getting close to stuff, etc. has made my driving life so much better
There are few things that have changed my life overnight, but a (much, much) newer car with updated tech was totally one of them.
I guess for me it doesn’t matter. I work 100% from home and drive very, very little. I keep an SUV for hardware store trips and an occasional foray out for lunch (or family vacation). That’s still a 2015 Honda Pilot so not exactly new, lol. Wife drives a small Focus and my son has a Mazda3.
Maybe if I was driving hours a day on the regular it would matter. Though honestly I’m not sure it would. It’s a method of transportation, not the latest smartphone. I may be in the minority with that.
I will add, not sure it’s relevant, that I’m in the percentage that would have no problem purchasing a new car. Depending on the price-point I may even be able to pay cash. Again though, I don’t need brand-new vehicles.
Totally fair, cars are more and more like smartphones these days…with all the good and bad that comes with it!
My car is old enough to have kids my age, but at least I’ll never have to take it to a mechanic. No computers means I can do everything from valve timing to gearbox rebuilds myself, and parts are dirt cheap because they’re being thrown out all the time.
New car? I can’t afford a used car.
B-but nobody wants to work! But they can’t get to work with no car! And they can’t go to work from the house they can’t live in because the rent is $3k. B-but nobody wants to work!
Yup, can confirm. My car has so many issues and it’s just barely holding on but there is no way I can afford to buy a new car.
Just spent $1.6K to put one last year of life, maybe two on my existing beater, because it’s better than trying to replace it right now.
I’ve replaced the struts, alternator, and some sort of weird electronic thing, plus random small stuff in the last 3 years and plan to drive it until it literally dies.
about $800 last year for auto insurance
this year the number is about $1400
same vehicle same city
income stayed the same if not lower due to less work
new vehicles are more than likely unaffordable seeing how expensive a ten year old vehicle is
how the f#%k are we not in the streets
Wow, and I thought my car insurance of €170 was expensive this year!
We’re not in the streets because a new sucker is born every day.
