Meanwhile, Teams still doesn’t have user added video backgrounds like zoom did years ago. 

As a Virginia driver, I can assure you it’s not pop culture highway warning signs that distract us, it’s the number of drivers - including marked police cars - holding up their cellphones for Zoom meetings, Facetime calls, or YouTube videos.

I see it too - but I’d assume they’re at least paying attention. The crashes I’ve seen in the last 4-5 years are people running stop signs or red lights, people changing lanes not checking their blind spot, and several last minute exits from the freeway.

The Right has been ridiculing income inequality in America since forever. I remember back in the day conservatives insisting that if you owned a color TV you had no right to complain about poverty... and that was back when you could buy a color TV in a pawn shop for $80. Baby boomers and Gen X benefitted greatly from…

Small town kids can find $1000 take home/week server or bartender for everyone that need that  job?  That is not realistic. There are not as many $1000 week jobs as you suggest for college kids. 

Excellent observation. I see SO many expired registrations and dealer paper plates - the latter is even more indicative of trouble as they’ve been illegal here for 5 years. I still them from time to time.

What summer jobs have $1000 week take home pay?

Bust ass one summer to pay tuition 🤣 What a boomer thing to say. Summer jobs have not covered tuition in decades. 

The entire educational system, from elementary school through high school, is designed specifically to funnel as many people as possible into the college system.

Also, displaying license plates and paying for registration is a mug’s game now, apparently.  Make sure your Uninsured Motorist coverage is up to snuff!

This is in contrast to when people like to talk about how cutting taxes on the rich because they don’t focus on the individual (i.e., rich person gets richer) but like to focus on the economy (i.e., “trickle down”) even if it doesn’t work.

I really want to know how old you are and when you went to college if you think it’s possible for a person in 2024 to save up enough money in one semester to afford a car or make a noticeable dent in their loan debt.

Actual 1st world countries don’t have high student loan debt loads.
I could see the feasibility of some car-makers financing arms refinancing and rolling a portion of the student loan debt into a loan packaged with the car load, but such an scheme would only work for the those with excellent credit and future earning…

You tell a nearly identical tale of my experiences.  

Our country requires both automobiles and a job to survive; cars are exceedingly expensive and many people have to take loans out for even small amounts to cover it.

Covering basic needs isn’t a first world problem, its just twisted because capitalism without restraint ain’t the answer.

Oh I can see why if what I am experiencing is being seen by others. I work from home so I don’t get on the freeway as much anymore. Prior to the pandemic I commuted every single day. Back then maybe every few days I’d see some moron doing 100MPH or driving like a maniac. But now? I can’t think of the last time I went…

Being unable to take on more debt for a necessary item because you’re already mired in debt for another necessary item doesn’t sound like a problem you should be having in the first world.

In before the amazing humans who all paid off their $100k+ student loans before they were 30 and also bought houses and had 7 kids at the same time, because they worked hard.

‘Don’t use this on public roads!’

Proceeds to show it on public roads. Really??!

It happens. My trading up from a 2yo Saab when I bought my first new BMW is a hell of a lot more typical though.