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Naturally this is capitalism's fault
A few people call out the r-slurred ad
I mean 12.5k is vastly indulgent for a vacation, and a basic car isn't 65k.
Where does a basic car cost $65.000, and a vacation $12.500?
The rest is just various levels of poorcel cope and why it is society's fault they suck at life.
I see the poors are pretending to be big wallet niggas again est. 2016
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They say with a functioning brain you can cook your own meals, buy an extremely reliable and nice car for 20k, and simply not take vacations.
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Orrrr, stay with me here, you could sell shoes to the blacks and buy gas station salads to eat
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Must suck having such a low IQ
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What happened in your life to make you so boring?
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I just dont care about anything.
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important ethos lore, pizza nihilism
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he’s just like rick sanchez
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Nihilism isn't a good look.
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An extremely nice and reliable car is 2k and its called an early 00's corolla.
Also vacations are ridiculously cheap if you arent r-slurred about it. You dont need to forgo them. When I was in college I did a week in seoul for under $1k everything included and I paid for it by flipping shit on ebay from the thrift store across the street for like a month.
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Meh, I paid like 18k for my girlfriends car and it was basically a brand new corolla.
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Holy shit you bought a car for a foid that you don't legally own (married)?
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The car is in my name, I own it.
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And you let a foid drive it? Have you seen one of them behind the wheel?
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Sure, but I got her good insurance.
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You bought a car for a woman that's not your wife?
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You paid $18k for an early 2000s Corolla?
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I said brand new, so no. It was like 17500 for a 2019.
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You can even buy a manual for that money with nobody in your family having any idea how to drive it
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Everyone knows how to drive it lol
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You can go full poormaxxing and get a reliable decent car for 2k
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You can have a amazing vacation with nothing but a car and gas money.
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You can still take vacations tho it doesn't need too cost 12 grand
Trans lives matter
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I feel like Reddit has a skewed view that everyone is struggling while making $20K and working three jobs but rDrama seems convinced the median household income is $150k in the US.
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that's because rdrama is, above all else, contrarian
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maybe because rdrama is full of neurodivergents making 100k working from home
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Well, yeah? I mean I make over $150k/year and I'm r-slurred enough to post here, everyone else should have no excuse.
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dramatards counterjerking too hard in the the other direction.
tale old as time
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Household?
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that's a respectable lower middle class income based on what I read in the WSJ.
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I am an intern and make 2k a month while paying no taxes how do you end up with less money?
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I bet the average dramanaut does make more than the average Redditor but that’s more down to the userbase of this place almost certainly being older than Reddit.
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Isnt Gordon Gecko some movie character?
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Intrinsically linked with greed.
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I’m not neurodivergent enough for this.
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decent burg and fries is roughly ~14 usd, 'vacation' is pretty vague, a basic car thank God isn't 65,000 dollars unless you want like a brand new pickup. Pretty accurate on the burgers I guess.
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You can get something super cheap for like 20k if you need a car. Toyota Camry is good for that
Also if you don’t live in fricking clown states helps
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In 2010 or something my dad bought a brand new Kia Sportage with the best package at 25k or something. You can still get these great deals for aeound 30 if you buy Korean.
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have you tried growing a worthwhile skill and not spending all of your money? no, it's the capitalists fault
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The paycheck to paycheck thing is weird because there’s a difference between “I literally spend my 100% of my net income” and “I spend 100% of my income on things AFTER saving.”
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Off by 500%
Off by 300%
Even the most expensive new Mustang costs less than the “basic car”
Redditors are literally children with no concept of money.
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Interestingly, they understand burger to mean 'nice burger from nice place,' which the ad obviously wasn't alluding to, else it would have said, 'a nice dinner.'
They also complain about being serfs. If literally every single person in America can't have a solid gold Funko, then capitalism has clearly failed us.
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man you can fly to KL for like 60 bucks
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but why?
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true one can get popping in KL Zouk
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My friends got absolutely shifaced at KL Zouk lmao (Zouk Singapore too for that matter)
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but on different substances i suspect
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just booze on both
we did sneak in a vape into Singapore tho 
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only a vape?
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you gonna need to renew your COE soon? still got how many years left?
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7-8 ish
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that's not bad given how COEs are 100k nowadays
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where are these people getting a burger and fries that costs that much i don't understand
nothing in the add i actually try but everyone is acting like it's ALL TRUE
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That seems about right to me at anywhere thats not a dive or fast food.
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If you get a burger at a restaurant it's between $12-18 depending on the state based off my last cross country tour
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cheeseburger and fries from Five Guys is $18.38 now that I look at it
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You can get decent burgers for well under this, you buy the patties and make them yourself.
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well no shit, the post was referring to going out to get it
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"A burger and fries for $16? Incorrect, expired rotisserie chicken is only ten cents a pound."
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Just buy a cow, then with a little extra work you can make burgers all year for free.
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realistic for non chain fast food in costal cities, if you include tip
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Do you live under a rock?
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Five guys.
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Maybe if you majored in gender studies and believe that trans lives matter. Stupid poor people.
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I miss ads like this unironically, there was so much 'soul' in advertising that rapidly declined until the early 2000s where it became fricking terrible (tbf this ad is a rare gemmy
for the late 90's)
The ads in shit like Mad Men are eye candy for me compared to the modern vomit grubhub kroger dancing and "burgers?" ads that don't relate to the product at ALL and just end on a single frame of the company logo
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With my boomer hat on, most younger people live in overpriced cities and are also entitled. You could spend that much on those things even 60 years ago if you were Howard Hughes. Decent burger in my state not in an overpriced city can be had for $10-$12, a decent car is like 20k, and you have not only more vacation options, but more affordable too. Look at how ghetto "exclusive" vacations like disneyworld and cruises have become thanks to carnival cruise and spirit airlines.
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Snapshots:
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Raising prices and lowering wages is what boards and stockholders mean when they talk about innovation.:
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Shit, at my local diner a burger is $14, add $2 if you want lettuce tomato and onion, and fries are another $6. I'll take a $16 burger and fries any day.:
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Or they did the math, using historical inflation:
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I mean 12.5k is vastly indulgent for a vacation, and a basic car isn't 65k.:
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So... they calculated inflation?:
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Where does a basic car cost $65.000, and a vacation $12.500?:
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lol all those people saying "b-b-but an average car is $50k!!!"
forgetting that average includes people who aren't poor
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1,009.48% total or 9.29% per year. Adjusting for inflation 476.73% or 6.68% per year
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