*Not* a judgement on the people in the food pantry lines, but I am surprised by the number of very new and nicer cars in those lines in the TV coverage.
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*Not* a judgement on the people in the food pantry lines, but I am surprised by the number of very new and nicer cars in those lines in the TV coverage. (lots of "solid middle class" Hyundai, Nissans, Honda sedans, etc.) Much newer cars than mine, and no scratches or dings and very clean compared to my beater. My uninformed guess -- people who were comfortable middle class but not a lot of savings and thrown into needing food banks because of job loss and inflation breaking their carefully managed budget? Anyway. (I suppose the REALLY hungry can't afford to burn gas to drive to a food bank and burn gas for 8 hours, or don't have a car).
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*Not* a judgement on the people in the food pantry lines, but I am surprised by the number of very new and nicer cars in those lines in the TV coverage. (lots of "solid middle class" Hyundai, Nissans, Honda sedans, etc.) Much newer cars than mine, and no scratches or dings and very clean compared to my beater. My uninformed guess -- people who were comfortable middle class but not a lot of savings and thrown into needing food banks because of job loss and inflation breaking their carefully managed budget? Anyway. (I suppose the REALLY hungry can't afford to burn gas to drive to a food bank and burn gas for 8 hours, or don't have a car).
@ai6yr So we see this at work a fair amount. Keeping up with the joneses is a recipe for financial disaster.
We have nurses who thanks to working nights (+18%) and overtime easily clear 300K a year no sweat but are paycheck to paycheck because of the range rover lease, the pricey rent on the downtown SF apartment etc. So yeah I can believe it.
Once the cards are maxed, it starts getting tight, and any increases in anything accelerates it
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@ai6yr So we see this at work a fair amount. Keeping up with the joneses is a recipe for financial disaster.
We have nurses who thanks to working nights (+18%) and overtime easily clear 300K a year no sweat but are paycheck to paycheck because of the range rover lease, the pricey rent on the downtown SF apartment etc. So yeah I can believe it.
Once the cards are maxed, it starts getting tight, and any increases in anything accelerates it
@cvvhrn @ai6yr keeping up with the joneses is real, but there are very real financial reasons to have a newer car.
Boots theory is real. Also, with inflation as bad as it is, buying a new car now before prices explode would’ve been a good financial choice.
The fact that we let a handful of people hoard billions of dollars in wealth while others can’t afford food is a predicable outcome of capitalism.
The fact that we didn’t put guardrails in place to limit this is a failure of society and governance. If unchecked, it will continue to worsen until society corrects itself, which is almost always violent.
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