▲ 620 ▼ More Than 80 Percent Of Americans Can’t Afford New Cars (jalopnik.com) submitted 2 years ago by boem@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 230 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] the_q@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (1 child) Look at this guy with his $10k... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] SaltySalamander@kbin.social -45 points 2 years ago (3 children) Get a better job. If you can't afford a $10k car, you're doing something wrong... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] JoBo@feddit.uk 31 points 2 years ago You understand that if someone in a low paid job gets a better paid job, the low paid job does not disappear in a puff of smoke? That the proportion of people in low paid work is a function of political decisions as to what the economy should look like? I mean, the headline is fucking ridiculous (we don't need anything like 10% of car sales to be new cars). But so is giving careers advice as a solution to the high prevalence of shit pay. permalink fedilink source parent [–] nehal3m@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 years ago Why don’t I strap on my job helmet and squeeze down into a job cannon and fire off into job land, where jobs grow on jobbies? permalink fedilink source parent [–] the_q@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago The only thing that's being done wrong here is you defending the system and not the individual. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] SaltySalamander@kbin.social -45 points 2 years ago (3 children) Get a better job. If you can't afford a $10k car, you're doing something wrong... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] JoBo@feddit.uk 31 points 2 years ago You understand that if someone in a low paid job gets a better paid job, the low paid job does not disappear in a puff of smoke? That the proportion of people in low paid work is a function of political decisions as to what the economy should look like? I mean, the headline is fucking ridiculous (we don't need anything like 10% of car sales to be new cars). But so is giving careers advice as a solution to the high prevalence of shit pay. permalink fedilink source parent [–] nehal3m@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 years ago Why don’t I strap on my job helmet and squeeze down into a job cannon and fire off into job land, where jobs grow on jobbies? permalink fedilink source parent [–] the_q@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago The only thing that's being done wrong here is you defending the system and not the individual. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] JoBo@feddit.uk 31 points 2 years ago You understand that if someone in a low paid job gets a better paid job, the low paid job does not disappear in a puff of smoke? That the proportion of people in low paid work is a function of political decisions as to what the economy should look like? I mean, the headline is fucking ridiculous (we don't need anything like 10% of car sales to be new cars). But so is giving careers advice as a solution to the high prevalence of shit pay. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] nehal3m@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 years ago Why don’t I strap on my job helmet and squeeze down into a job cannon and fire off into job land, where jobs grow on jobbies? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] the_q@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago The only thing that's being done wrong here is you defending the system and not the individual. permalink fedilink source parent