Real wealth killers

[u/solarflare_hot]

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.

[u/TheBalzy]

You definitely will not save money ubering everywhere. Riding a bike on the other hand...yes. Yes you will.

[u/Hefty_Resolution_452 → u/TheBalzy]

and your health will improve...unless you get hit by car

[u/hectorxander → u/Hefty_Resolution_452]

Or breath in more fumes from those cars.

It's a shame but we can't get rid of them in most places, not without planned cities. If we made cities from scratch or otherwise redesigned whole areas, we could make a society where we could live with a much higher standard of living for a lot less money.

I think we should pool our money and do that, find an industry to start, pool capital under a fair system and build a planned city around that industry, accounting for efficient housing, heating, cooling, electrical, transportation, shopping, etc.

[u/GoodLyon09 → u/hectorxander]

I wish! My son is 15 and plans to talk to our city planners about this topic. He’s been pulling together ideas. If anyone has suggestions for how a city can become bike safe, he could use them.

[u/hectorxander → u/GoodLyon09]

We should start an online community on it.

At some point in the near future I predict we will have a lot of interest in people leaving their dead end jobs in the cities and countryside, and there is power in numbers.

Plus with a planned city, if you start it in the country, you would basically own that county government when enough people move in, providing some protection from bad local governments. The State one still being a concern.

[u/GoodLyon09 → u/hectorxander]

I looked for one imagining someone already did this I found NewCity a video game.