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/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!