Can’t wait for dumb investors to get bailed out again can’t have the engines of finance halt woo woo lets go.

the gap doesn’t seem massive, couldn’t this just be importance of owning a car by “stage of life?” obviously people with kids, jobs, no knees etc… need cars more than uni students.

what if my boss is a mere hectomillionaire?

You can get space anyway, Lonnie’s death literally could’ve been prevented with a $20 ratchet strap. Workplace safety is not an obstacle to competitive industry, it’s just an inexplicable pet peeve of Elons

and not even on a womans bicycle! (very empowered)

I mean, SSRI’s are sometimes known to permantantly fix the brains serotonin levels after a limited period of application, so it might’ve still been the drugs (Or a combination of both).

Cool that you’re doing good, tho.

^why is always the furries with the high paying job…^

Ricardo’s rule of rent.

In absense of land equality, or marginal land to escape to, rent will tend to push wages closer and closer to subsistance.

I mean, cost of living is higher than america than other parts of the world and other parts of the world have state-funded security programs that take some of the anxiety away from living.

Here in (western) europe I’d wager at half of people (including me) are insulated from “poverty induced misery”. There are an awful lot of stupidly big and expensive cars on the road.

Am I glad that ~400 million (200 mill in north america, 100 mill in europe, 100 mill everywhere else) people now live in that state of relative freedom? absolutely, but it is depressing to think about what a minority of humanity it really is.

NO IT’S NOT, THESE ARE TWO DIFFERENT PHENOMINA.

Diminishing returns: My first dollar buys a loaf of bread necessary for my survival, my millionth buys me 0.01% of a sports car.

Hedonic treadmill: Neither my sports car nor loaves of bread seem as wonderous to me after they’ve become a part of my routine.

Sorry lads, you know how it is, no catchy name, no political representation.

In older vocabulary, “want” was actually the stronger form of “need”.

Perhaps we’re returning to tradition in more ways than one?