*Can’t afford to buy a $48K car

There are still sedans out there that can be gotten for a lot less, people have really been over spending on these large SUVs to make the average price $48K. Get a ~$30K sedan instead, you can get a Honda Civic for under $30K or a number of other cars.

Now obviously that’s still out of reach for a ton of people, but it just seems weird to say “can’t afford a new car” and then picking something for $48K.

at least at the next debt ceiling increase at the end of 2024

Yeah, so basically long enough that nobody is going to remember this and she is going to George Costanza her way back into the office.

On the crocs website, a lot of sizes appear to be sold out.

I agree that’s a high possibility, either way though I like to respond to posts like that for other potential readers. If OP wants to admit they are wrong, great, but it’s important we counter these kinds of posts with facts so others understand the truth as I agree disinformation is a powerful tool so it needs to be cut off at the knees.

I wouldn’t call pursuing another path to forgive $10K giving up, I mean it’s literally the opposite of giving up.

Also its 12 months, not 6 months

And you are ignoring the benefits of the SAVE Plan https://www.npr.org/2023/07/14/1187545921/student-loan-forgiveness-save-repayment

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/06/30/fact-sheet-president-biden-announces-new-actions-to-provide-debt-relief-and-support-for-student-loan-borrowers/

https://www2.ed.gov/policy/highered/reg/hearulemaking/2021/idrfactsheetfinal.pdf

Biden is doing a ton considering he has had 0 help from Congress who has power of the purse. If you want interest rates adjusted you gotta go through Congress.

Nights might make it easier? My problem was the stores were only open while I was working, I had basically a 1 hour window to get to the store before it closed at 6pm (thankfully just a week or so ago they are now open until 8pm).

It’s definitely a weird dilemma of if we all work the same hours, how does anyone with a job actually go to these places?

They are called “dollar bills” for a reason.

How are we counting “media companies”? Like what defines one?

The graph not starting at 0 makes this a bit deceiving at first glance.

I stupidly read this and thought the car dealer was calling out their lack of friends.

Yeah this is where taxing these negative externalities would help to curb the demand of wasteful products and thus lower waste produced by corporations.

We can’t expect corporations to just do the right thing out of the goodness of their hearts, because the products would cost more and the masses would just purchase the cheaper more waste producing products. We need to level the playing field by taxing pollution and waste.