• FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        A 100k auto loan with 20k down financed for 84 months is $1,1167/mo.

        It isn’t an intelligent purchase, but it is very much in the budget for a professional working class person.

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            4 months ago

            People who earn their living primarily from working and earning a paycheck.

            As opposed to the capital class, who earn their living primarily from interest on their invested capital.

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              4 months ago

              So brain surgeons are working class, not upper class? Because they make half a million on salary?

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                4 months ago

                Yes, brain surgeons are working class. They earn a lot because they actually produce a lot of value. If you suffer from a brain disease, getting surgery to fix it is probably one of the most valuable things you can get (depending on the severity, it will be the most valuable thing). Additionally, it requires a lot of skill.

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        4 months ago

        Would you like to explain to the dealership that gave me a shitty old loaner Tesla why you decided to vandalize

        Surely you realize that analogy is flawed? That’s not an old loaner—even if it is shitty—it’s an eighty-thousand dollar and higher, highly controversial, highly marketed, nearly experimental vehicle. No reasonable person is chasing after poor sods with old loaners to vandalize.

        Don’t vandalize other people’s shit. You don’t know what their situation is. Golden rule, motherfucker.

        Since we’re being nice about it, how about don’t support nazis. Golden rule, dipshit.

        …I don’t think you’re a dipshit, but I do think “vandalism or not” is irrelevant, here. Property isn’t sacred, and even if it were, vandalizing nazi symbols would be far from the worst sin to commit.

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            4 months ago

            If you are this inconvenienced by driving a Tesla that puts me off from buying or renting one, since I wouldn’t want to go through that. Makes me want to stay away from Tesla with what a hassle it is. I’d ask for another loaner personally, but more power to you for wanting to keep sticking with it.

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                4 months ago

                Yeah plan to. It seems like a very scary car to be associated with in the current public climate. Brand has become radioactive and too ideological tied to political figures. Seems like anger is just slowly increasing over the past several weeks too.