If only we had invented and built some sort of alternative mode of collective transportation. Maybe it could be in tunnels and ride on metallic rails. It would serve many people and make periodic stops to the same locations instead of the highway clusterf- we have today. Sad that we don’t, but a man can dream though. A man can dream though. A man can dream.
The US could import cheap quality cars from elsewhere but no. And thanks to Trump’s tariffs even locally produced cars will go up in price.
With their determination to ban cheap imported cars and make it hard to produce affordable cars locally you’d think they would plan ahead and invest in mass transit, but also no
Before we blame Trump for everything, maybe Americans need to buy cars they can afford. An influx of cheap cars won’t fix anything when people are willing to fake it until they never make it driving expensive cars as status symbols. How many trailer parks have a Lexus parked out front?
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Uhh, how much do you think blue collar folk make? A lot of them could pay that off in a year if they have no other obligations, 5 year loan would be no problem. And more to the point, why does this feel like you’re denigrating blue collar work by insinuating they get paid shit?
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But they all buy $50,000 trucks, they don’t even use them for work.
If they roll over the debt from 3 other cars, no, even well earning blue collar guys cannot affort yet another 75k truck.
Are blue collar workers well paid? Here’s some data: https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/median-household-income-by-state.
The data suggests that a $75,000 debt on top of rent or a mortgage would strap a families net earnings, but the pre-owned cost should be closer to $40,000.
In conclusion, debt sucks and over 5 years, everyone props up bankers.
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you’re doing god’s work; thank you. ;)
some sort of alternative mode of collective transportation.
OK ok but hear me out, going to sound crazy, what if we could like… put a smaller cheap mode of transportation INSIDE the bigger collective one?!
Like… I don’t know… a bike on a subway or train car?! 🤯
You’re telling me we built all of our cities for cars and it turns out the cars depend on human owners?? [Sarcasm] Damn, if only we’d had any idea at all we could have maybe skipped the cars and built things for humans in the first place!
[Very sarcasm] Oh well, you can’t win at all. That’s how the saying goes, right?
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Wow… Hopefully this trend continues. More people on public transit or biking please, thank you.
How about wheel chairs? https://lemmy.world/post/1433287
