It’s so crazy how much ideological astroturfing reddit has and people fall for it. Also lol @ working several jobs for $2400 a month = lower middle class.
any car you can get for 1k and drive off is not gonna be door dash or instacart usable. it’s either gonna get you fuck all fuel efficiency or you’re leaking so much oil you’re offsetting any profit
In my experience, where I live it is not feasible at all… I’m into cars and all I’ve driven are beaters although not to that extent. I helped my mate buy a car for ~3k and even that took a ton of effort to organize because theres so many people that waste your time. From 0-1000 in particular, every post is actually advertising a down payment or monthly payment. I checked out a car that said 78k miles, whoops they forgot the two! It’s 278k miles, haha. I checked craigslist before I posted just out of curiosity and the only car under 1k in 20 miles from me that isnt a straight piped project car, needs transmission /engine work or is a rolling shell is a 98 ram 1500, which fits in with my gas thing. If you’re mechanically inclined and willing to churn through a ton of shitty ads, there are absolutely deals out there but the average person cannot spot them.
I didn’t mention uber/lyft because I know those have restrictions on years and mileage or whatever.
And I just brought this up because this is something I have experience with and thought was funny. I’m just here to waste time lol
I don’t intend this to be a serious critique of a failing capitalist system. It’s really more of a critique about reddit and how much it favors certain lines of propaganda. This person may be 100% honest, but it’s still propaganda. However I think it’s more likely they’re going to build cred as a provertyfinance guru and then gain passive income by selling their story and infomercials. That kind of thing will be very tantalizing right now given the unemployment and developing recession/depression. So yeah, regardless if the specific story is true or not, the fact that this kind of thing exists at all is enough of a critique without getting into the details.
Laughing at dumb reddit posts isn’t challenging capital. It’s not going to change minds. But this is a comm for making fun of this kind of stuff.
Lol that’s insane. Hey we’re not gonna pay you very much but you better provide a nice vehicle if you want to work for us.
Depending on what part of the country you’re in you can absolutely get a car for that price, it will likely be 15 years old though.
Used cars are cheaper in the Midwest in my experience. You can get a car that’s kinda rusted but still has a solid engine.
It’s honestly pretty sad how much mental gymnastics people will do to convince themselves that they’re “middle class” to avoid acknowledging that they’re poor, because it’s considered that embarrassing and shameful in America.
Middle class to most Americans means median when that’s just not true anymore. It was true at one point for the majority of white people, but this is also in decline.
Middle class is PMC, households starting off with at least 150k-250k a year depending on what the cost of living is in the particular area. Middle class is by definition people own property (a primary residence and investments) but also have to work for a living.
If this guy is lower middle class I’m in the 1%
