Not a boomer, sorry, its common sense though. Go to a car lot, get a used car you can afford. It might be $1000 or even less. spend your money on keeping it running instead of monthly payments. Work at a job that makes more money or better yet your own business on the side. Get better car. Get a mentor. Don't repeat mistakes someone else already made and set them back years. TO your other questions... 2. not much, I paid $300 for my 1st car and I could do it again today if I was 15 yo and working. 3) No, but not all cars posses planned obsolescence. 4) buy older model Toyotas, Hondas or similar in great shape from old people. 5) supply/demand is nothing you can control in the macro. In the micro, where you live, find a car for sale with a lot of similar cars like it also for sale. Then negotiate down. 6) Bitching about the past doesn't change price point. Do what you can do and vote accordingly so the future doesn't arrive with regrets.
The fact you think you car lots sell used cars for under 1k means you don’t live in reality. I got a very cheap car in 08 for 2k a beater that would last under a year was 400-500 then. Those beaters are 2k now.
Get a mentor. Nah boomer dudes are too busy chasing pussy and being selfish IMO. Just read this thread.
Young people just don't care anymore. That's why our country is collapsing. Nobody is going to work to take care of old people anymore, roll your dice and take your chances with a foreign care aide I guess.
Young white men have less reason to care about anything than a deathrow inmate in prison. At least the latter has hope of a reduced sentence, whereas the path we're on is certain. We have no future. At this point I just want things to burn and blood to flow, at least then it would be a change of pace.
and then while your car is being worked on you can spend as much as you make just paying for transit so you can keep your job. There is no winning.
Only two points in and we're already at "pull yourself up by your bootstraps and just make more money"
The fact you think you car lots sell used cars for under 1k means you don’t live in reality. I got a very cheap car in 08 for 2k a beater that would last under a year was 400-500 then. Those beaters are 2k now.
When did I mention car lots? You do need a mentor, in many things.
You mentioned a car lot in your second sentence lol
You need to go back to the nursing home
Get a mentor. Nah boomer dudes are too busy chasing pussy and being selfish IMO. Just read this thread.
Young people just don't care anymore. That's why our country is collapsing. Nobody is going to work to take care of old people anymore, roll your dice and take your chances with a foreign care aide I guess.
Young white men have less reason to care about anything than a deathrow inmate in prison. At least the latter has hope of a reduced sentence, whereas the path we're on is certain. We have no future. At this point I just want things to burn and blood to flow, at least then it would be a change of pace.