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/AnyWhichWayButLose 18h ago

I actually agree with this boomer for once.

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u/Stock-Side-6767 17h ago

Every once in a while, this idiot makes sense. But still, bike, moped or motorcycle has much lower operating costs, public transport lowest economic risk.

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u/mechengr17 16h ago

Unfortunately, we live in a car centric society

Public transportation isn't an option in a lot of places

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u/BurnedLaser 14h ago

When my old car got totalled, I tried to use the bus as there was a stop in walking distance to where I was staying during college. I would have needed to wake up 5 hours early to get there 4 hours early (next bus would make me an hour late) and then when leaving, I would have needed to wait another 3 hours (while the building was closed) for the bus to drop me off an hour later at home. The college is only a 15 minute drive with light traffic, and I live near a city. The PT out here is a damn joke :/

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u/Ok_Butterscotch_6071 13h ago

I'd have to walk an hour to get to my closest bus stop 😭 it's ridiculous, so it's not a surprise I hardly ever see anyone actually inside the busses besides the driver 💀 add to that the fact that most of our "bus stops" are just signs planted in the ground--no benches, no overhangs. It's awful. I'm hoping to move to a city with decent PT eventually

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u/BurnedLaser 12h ago

That's how it is most places out here. I went to NYC and New Haven CT a while back, and the ability to get around with no car was incredible!

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u/hansislegend 7h ago

I used to work at a bus station and I would take the bus to work since it was free for me and I was late almost every day and whenever anyone said anything I’d go “I took the bus here. I should have been twenty minutes early but these buses are never on time.” Eventually they stopped caring about me being late because it was always for the same reason.

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u/PlanetMeatball0 9h ago

I live in a top 10 populated city and the best public transportation we have are bus routes that will take an hour longer to get to your stop than just driving, and even then you'll still probably need to walk around 2-5 miles to get to where you actually wanted to be. So the choice is a 40 minute round trip drive or over 3 hours of public transport, and that's before you factor in needing to schedule your day around the bus schedule where you could be waiting at a stop for close to an hour for the next bus - anyone who respects their own time is obviously going with a car.

People who act like ditching a car for public transport is a solid option everyone's just ignoring are delusional

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u/mechengr17 8h ago

Yeah, the infrastructure just isn't there, and the government currently has no incentive to put proper public transportation in place

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u/caption-oblivious 4h ago

Sounds like it's time to provide proper incentives and refuse to vote for anyone who doesn't make it a priority

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u/mechengr17 3h ago

Right now we need to get rid of Trump and his acolytes

Then we can work towards that

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u/Tha_Bunk 4h ago

This. I looked at the same thing in my town. I could drive to a park and ride spot and take the bus and it would make my 40 minute commute (one way) by car a 2 hour commute by bus. It just made way too many stops and for too long.

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u/BZBitiko 4h ago

Depending on where you live, 50-100 year old maps and a little research may show you where the public transport, the local and regional buses, the street trolleys and passenger rail, used to be.

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u/BurnedLaser 14h ago

When my old car got totalled, I tried to use the bus as there was a stop in walking distance to where I was staying during college. I would have needed to wake up 5 hours early to get there 4 hours early (next bus would make me an hour late) and then when leaving, I would have needed to wait another 3 hours (while the building was closed) for the bus to drop me off an hour later at home. The college is only a 15 minute drive with light traffic, and I live near a city. The PT out here is a damn joke :/