Rising Prices and High Interest Rates Are Making Car Ownership Feel Impossible

Rising vehicle prices, auto loan interest rates, and insurance and maintenance costs are making it harder for people to buy or keep cars.

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neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 174d (4 replies)

First it was the houses, then it was the cars, next it will be the computers.

Wealth inequality strikes again.

Tlf@feddit.org · 5 pts · 174d (2 replies)

Just compute it in the cloud, no need for your own hardware. It's only 9€ per month, sorry 48€, which actually means 58€?

Subscriptions to essentials of modern life should not be a thing. It's a bad business model.

Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 174d

I would rather replace my PC with a raspberry pi.

I always tell the places I work they'd end up saving money buying a server or two for R&D then having people run machines in the cloud.

There is obviously a point where scaling/maintaining it becomes less worthwhile, but for small teams/projects the cloud is a rip off.

Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 174d

And not having a car now can save you even more money!

Yeah the price of new cars nowadays is the same price as a whole damn four-bedroom house used to cost.