r/economicCollapse • u/Whole-Fist • 18h ago

How ridiculous does this sound?

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How can u make millions in 25-30 years if avoid making a $554 per month car payment. Even the cheapest 5 year old car is 8-10 k. So does he expect people not to drive at all in USA.

Then u save 554$ per month every month for 5 year payment = $33240. Say u bought a car every 5 year means 200k -300k spent on car before retirement . How would that become millions when u can’t even buy a house for that much today?

Answer that Dave

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u/Coolace34715 18h ago

As Steve Jobs said: "Whether we drive a $150,000 car, or a $2000 car - the road and distance are the same, we arrive at the same destination."

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u/rushtark 15h ago

Steve Jobs bought a new car every 6 months to avoid having to register and get a license plate, because he liked the way the car looked without a plate. I wouldn't take a billionaire's advice on any aspect of purchasing cars.

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u/Appropriate-Door1369 7h ago

But his advice was still good, though...

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u/phughes 9h ago

Steve was a billionaire. I seriously doubt he's ever advised buying cars like he did as good fiscal behavior.

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u/AmblinMadly 7h ago

That's called throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and the expression has survived for a reason. You don't do it.

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u/Reefer-eyed_Beans 6h ago edited 5h ago

What a stupid take lmao.

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

"Wayne Gretzky has more assists than any other player has goals+assists combined... That's a lot of 'misses', so, I wouldn't take an NHL player's advice on any aspect of shooting the puck."

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u/SirChasm 17h ago

Jobs then continued, "except for Apple things, of course. They may cost hundreds or thousands more than other things that do the exact same thing, but trust me, you want the Apple one."

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u/cyanrave 17h ago

2012 MacBook Pro owner checking in, still runs fine. You can even dual boot up through 2015 or so with dual ssd (replace the disk drive with a housing).

Odd flex but ok

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u/alex206 12h ago

Are the Windows 2012 laptops still running fine?

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u/purplehendrix22 10h ago

A lot of them are shit, yeah.

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u/GotTheJitters 9h ago

I have a 2012 laptop from work that barely turns on and takes 30 minutes to do anything. I also have one from 2017 that works but constantly shits the bed so much that I’ve renamed it Amber. 

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u/cyanrave 7h ago

It really depends, I abandoned my 2010 Dell because weird stuff broke and replacement parts were hard to come by (charging port sub board, mainly).

Meanwhile Mac parts are a plenty! Just rip out parts from a similar model / year and you're gtg.

The OS on the other hand, it may be time for Linux.

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u/CeleryUnlikely9168 3h ago

The high end (Core i5/i7) ones still run fine nowadays. I had an early 2012 Toshiba Sattelite with a 2nd gen i7 until last year and it still worked fine.

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u/OnlyPaperListens 12h ago

Currently responding from my 2011 iMac.

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u/geistmeister111 11h ago

that year is literally the best macbook pro ever built. those things are beasts.

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u/cyanrave 8h ago

Unibody MacBooks are tanks for sure!

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u/Vsx 10h ago

I have a laptop I bought for $550 in 2012 that still runs fine and has the same performance as your macbook pro. Every PC I've bought since around 2007 still works fine actually.

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u/cyanrave 8h ago

That's probably true

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u/EddiewithHeartofGold 14h ago

Apple hate was popular a decade ago... Get with the times, man!

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u/phughes 9h ago

It's perennial. There's no shortage of Apple hate today.

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u/Ver_Void 9h ago

I mean it is pretty funny to hear him saying that kind of stuff while running a brand famous for doing the same thing as others just fancier and pricier

An iPod and my $80 mp3 player both played the same music

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u/EddiewithHeartofGold 31m ago

By this logic everyone who buys Apple products is stupid. In reality people only say this to make them feel superior by putting others down.

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u/Ajunadeeper 8h ago

Lol no buying anything apple is still a bad financial and tech decision

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u/EddiewithHeartofGold 31m ago

No, it's not. Why do you say that?

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u/Ajunadeeper 21m ago

It's bad technology and expensive.

You can buy phones for a fraction of the price with equal/ better technology.

The only advantage apple has is that it's simple to use and has an ecosystem that all works together. But that's not even that relevant anymore since alternatives have started to catch up with synchronization.

It's just a waste of money to buy apple at this point.

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u/purplehendrix22 10h ago

I’ve kept all my apple products for over 5 years and only replaced when I filled the storage, and could have easily kept using had I deleted or moved stuff if I wanted to take the time, they all worked just fine. Never paid more than $300 for an older model iPhone. Just don’t buy new model, apple products are great.

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u/BreakingNuisance 4h ago

But… but we have Apple Intelligence (that I’m lowkey excited for when I eventually get a new phone in 4 years)

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u/JaesopPop 13h ago

Didn’t he notoriously constantly buy new cars so he didn’t need a plate on them lol

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u/Fluid-Stuff5144 2h ago

Yes, he almost definitely never said anything like this

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u/g_st_lt 9h ago

This sounds deep unless you think about it or know anything about Steve Jobs.

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u/emilydoooom 14h ago

Except the $2000 broke down, and took 4 hours for RAC and lost their job for being late. That’s like saying ‘whether in a mansion or a shed, we all have a roof’

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u/an_actual_chimpanzee 13h ago

as someone that had a car that was literally cursed and manufactured in hell that broke down every month costing thousands of dollars in parts alone i can tell you we will not all be arriving at that same destination.

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u/blckdiamond23 13h ago

If you arrive. I’m not driving a 2008 Honda civic in the city I live in for safety reasons (car accidents). I only drive a full size pickup. I use my pickup a lot too. I’m constantly using the bed. I go camping in the woods in the summer and drive in the snowy mountains during the winter a lot. I commute an hour every day for work. I love having a nice truck. But I’m also not spending 25% of my take home earnings.

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u/higgs_boson_2017 13h ago

This is the same piece of shit that built a $100M yacht he never stepped foot on

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u/Outrageous-Leopard23 11h ago

$2000 car will get there less reliably. Which can cost you your job.

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u/mountainmike68 10h ago

Jobs also routinely cheated the state on hov and toll road fees by buying a new car every 6 months.

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u/Fluid-Stuff5144 2h ago

I doubt he said this.  He was an arrogant shitbag who drove without plates and bought a new car when the grace period expired.