Lol, that ship sailed long ago.

Not always.

I mean, if you just need it for “image” then just rent it on the few occasions you need the image.

That’s what all the other lenders did.

Thing is, she agreed to a loan of $403 a month for 72 months. That works out to her agreeing to pay back $29,016. That’s what her loan was worth. Not the $17,000 price of the car.

To be fair, the actual ProPublica article is better at articulating the real problem.

To be fair, the auction was in 2021. Used car prices were ridiculous then due to the pandemic shortages. Can't really expect them to have predicted that ahead of time.

While I do empathize with her plight, I think we also need to acknowledge that she was not, in fact, forced to buy a $15,000 car. Especially in 2017.

God American car designers of that era has such incredible bad taste.

Honestly, if they’re gonna make a crossover anyway, they shouldn’t cocktease us and instead just make the concepts really nice crossovers.

I mean, if fucking HP had hitters this good, there’d be a lot bigger targets to go over.

Sorry, just happens that dictators tend to have both the money to buy nice things, and the lack of people holding them back from making ostentatious purchases.

Eh, it sucks but if he can afford the payment it’s just an irritating lesson.

But the thing is, though, people REALLY care about the appearance.

Guarantee that having P in the middle would result in a bunch of people overshooting and getting out of their only to find it moving on without them.

Oh shit, and they could even make him a kid hero, like a teenager or even a pre-teen.

There’s no difference between subscription streaming and VOD streaming other than the revenue model. It’s like saying that if I lease a car versus buying it with cash that’s a different product. They’re both cars.

Netflix wasn’t the only streaming service even then. It was just the best one.

Except it didn’t so much “kill” as “replace” the DVD + Cable market.

Won’t work.