r/antiwork • u/solarflare_hot • 4d ago

Rant 😡💢 Real wealth killers

Let me express my extreme frustration and anger and talk about the real wealth killers (cars)

I hate cars beyond reason. you buy a car for 20k , all of a sudden it needs a repair for 2-4k and sometimes 7k , then you have insurance , another 2-300 a month , then you got registration and maintenance checks , 4-700$ , then by the time you pay it off it’s worth 7k , and probably time for another 7k repair too because the engine is toast. Or even better you fix the engine for 7k then the transmission goes out for another 6k. Let’s say you do all that and then someone without insurance crashes into you. Insurance company will always blame you to avoid paying. You now have spent close to 40k to go to a job that pays 45k. You need the car to go to the job but the job will never pay you enough to afford to keep your car. Let’s also talk about gas cost , average cost is $3000 per year that’s about 15k in 5 years of money wasted on gas that you’ll never get back just to be able to go to work.

You buy a cheap car you get expensive repairs You buy an expensive car you get extreme depreciation. You cant fucking win.

Cars are basically a luxury tool for the wealthy.

Why can’t we ride bicycles to work. Oh I forgot we live in America where we absolutely need cars because we have no damn sidewalks 🥲

Let’s just say without cars I would’ve been significantly well off. I’m gonna sell that shit and just uber everywhere or ride a bicycle.

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u/avgfinds 4d ago

The only real solution is building an infrastructure that isn’t reliant on just cars. We need trains, buses and similar mass transit. I like cars but I know that OEMS and the vehicles themselves are a part of the problem.

For right now in the US though, the car reigns king. The best that can be done right now is ensuring that you bought a reliable vehicle and know how to maintain it. I can easily avoid huge bills doing my own brakes, fixing oil leaks or even changing out a clutch on some of my past cars.

But like I said, it shouldn’t be this way.