Remember - in modern America:>10% of the population is responsible for more than 50% of consumer spending>Companies are increasingly abandoning the 'middle market' and are either selling higher-end products to richfags, or ultra-low-end slop to everyone elseThis is what the economic future will look like, and it's only just beginning. The top 10-15% of American households now have so much money that they can carry the corporate economy on their backs, leading to ever-rising stock prices. The other 85% are simply not that useful the economy anymore.The lesson is clear - do what you need to get ahead. To get above the 85th percentile. Don't be a poorfag and doom your family to misery and poverty in the future.
>>536301251I'm not buying that fucking garbage lmao
>>536301251Wonderful, hope they enjoy buying their expensive planned obsolescence shit boxes that depreciate faster than a jew chews up a foreskin. Becoming a NEET was the greatest decision of my life. I can't imagine working and paying taxes into this shit country or investing lmao
>>536301251The 10% doing 90% of the spending are not the wealthy people, anon. It is dumb fucks and niggers running up consumer debt.
>>536301383are you a welfare neet or a supported by their family neet
>>536301460Ironically I was an engineer, even worked in the car industry for a time on communications. I saw this shit show unfolding 17 years ago. It's funny how predictable everything is when you understand the greed in human nature. Auto industry is going to collapse in the next few years, you can bank on that.And no, I receive zero welfare or any gibs. I'm not going to be a nigger.
>>536301579so are you an investment neet or a supported by their family neet? something pays the bills and fills the fridge
>>536301579>MUH COLLAPSE!!!Lol, no - that's the point. It doesn't work like that anymore. Carmakers are getting by because they can peddle more expensive products to fewer buyers. They don't need 'the mass market' nearly as much anymore. Las Vegas casinos are still profitable despite the decline in visitors, because they are raising prices and catering even more to the high-rollers. Etc.
>>536301660I get by just fine, that's all that needs to be said. Helps being so minimalist that I literally don't want anything. I do buy the occasional tool. Also, I've been learning to sew to make my own clothes, stealth tactical too.
>>536301892youre either lying or your mom is in the next room over then. lmao
>>536301251I know this and I’m kind of scared. Part of my family is “middle class”:>college degrees>respectable careers (teachers, nurses, self-employed white collar etc)>late model cars>homes worth $300k-$500k range>yearly income in the $125k-$175k range They honestly don’t seem affected by inflation The rest of us:>high school or college dropouts >Low income (retail jobs, fast food places, etc)>rent apts or live in mobile homes or live with roommates >drive beaters from the 90s to early 10s>clip coupons>cut down on unnecessary trips to save gas>never eat out>drinking or drug problem or bothLife was never easy for us poors but it’s so much more difficult with Trump, he and his administration genuinely don’t give a shit about poor people and I feel it’s going to get worse for us
>>536301751Clearly you don't understand shit. These rich fucks are buying cars that have massive depreciation, so in 4 years even if they want to buy another with trade-in, they're looking at massive negative equity in the roll over. Not to mention the cars are effectively prohibitively irreparable planned obsolescence, so their resale value long-term is zero relative to value/repair cost.But that's the goal isn't it? Enshitification is accelerating because private equity and major tech companies don't see any long-term future. They're willing to burn their shit to the ground just max out short-term profits and bail, leaving the suckers that come in after them to eat the bowl of shit they left behind.I can tell you right now, within the next 2 years the market is going to collapse worse than the great depression, and the cascade across every industry is going to collapse the country to the point of balkanization.
>>536301978Believe whatever you want, I don't lie, but I'm not going to take the bait either.
>>536301251Fuck I was about to be poor thank you OP for telling me to be rich just in time.
>>536302176sure. work starts at 9 tomorrow
>>536302056People with high incomes don't really care about physical asset depreciation, because they have the means to simply replace products by purchasing newer ones. People without the money to do this are increasingly being put at a disadvantage.Here's a related trend - Trump is cutting a trillion dollars from the Medicaid program next year. Male NEETs are getting kicked off entirely. It is projected that quite a few clinics and hospitals in smaller towns or cities will end up closing due to lack of income.But those towns and cities are full of people with lower incomes. The government is gradually pulling back on its outlays and 'investments' in the lower classes, because they fundamentally don't matter. That money can go to other uses, like military bloat. The only way to defend yourself against these trends is to have your own wealth and above-average income. I'm a messenger warning people to take this fact seriously.
>>536302473any legit neet who voted for donald is a fucking idiot though
>>536301442If you actually talk to someone driving OP's truck it's always a boomer and they always made their fortune buying real estate when it was cheap.
>>536301383If you can afford newest and best every three years it doesnt matter, also not everyone has a mom supporting them >>536301992All of the people you mentioned are downwardly mobile whether they realize it or not>>536302056Rich people approve of depreciation, cars are leased by their business or purchased and depreciated by business, IRS does not check personal mileage, it’s not possible>>536302473>this
>>536302473That's fine, like I said in the first post, they can enjoy buying all the new cars/trucks themselves. Even if I could afford a new car, I'd still never buy one under any circumstance. If I was wealthy enough, I'd have a car built for me custom or restored rather than buy a shit box.
>>536302873>Even if I could afford a new carBut you did have breakfast
>>536302909OMAD.
>>536302873"I/me/my" shit is irrelevant here. This is just one example of the broader trend, which is the withdrawal of affordable or subsidized products and services to people in lower income tiers. Being poor is going to let 'leaner and meaner' in the US over time. There is going to be a much sharper and more pronounced gap between people who can afford things (like modern AI/drone/etc. security systems) and those who cannot. It's going to be more like a Latin American shithole in terms of social dynamics.
>>536302848Wealthy is relative to the environment. They may be wealthy now, in a few years they might be laying a ditch as a maggot whore house.
>>536301251Inequality leads to polarization. This has always been true, and the two speed economy of modern America is just going to lead to more polarization, more violence, and even the economy will suffer for it.
drones are cheap and your enemies are few
>>536301251>Jew socialism thread
>>536303166They're outnumbered 9:1 at a minimum. You think these rich people are going to keep society functioning themselves? That's hilarious They going to hire other wealthy people to be their plumber, garbage man, and security?
>>536301992Where you went to junior, middle and high school matters in life. It determines your future. Even a degree won’t help you unless it’s from the ivies or a very indemand specialist non larp degree. The future is going to be like the book/tv show the expanse, half of the people on earth won’t have jobs because there aren’t any and they get basic gibsmedats.
>>536301251>The lesson is clearof course, the solution isn't to fix a blatantly broken, unsustainable systemits simply to try to win within that obviously non-functional system to live it up before it implodesthe chinese can't start the american century of humiliation fast enough
>>536303622lol if they knew the Titanic was going to hit the iceberg and sink people would have stolen the boats and built something to float on from anything they could find
>>536301251Americans haven't even begun to see how shitty everything will become once the lower classes devolve to Third World tier spending power and the upper classes refuse to fund the enormous public sector for a massive impoverished underclass.
>>536303490The most ubiquitous ladder to wealth, real estate, is being gatekept by both sides. Fucking retard.
>>536303692No they wouldn't, because that's not how the human herd thinks. It is reactive, not predictive. However, immediately after the collision all hell would break loose.
>>536303757Even living in a van has become so much more expensive. When I first set out doing vanlife in America in 2015, many people paid $2000 for a reliable Econoline or Dodge van in decent condition. A decade later all of those vans are in the junkyard, and if you want a reliable Sprinter or Transit van, you'll have to fork over $10,000.
>>536303191No, it’s not, I don’t know what you are describing, hood rich maybe ?
>>536303622My nigger, this shit is not getting fixed. I'm trying to provide some warning before the train goes off the rails.>Well, they should just fix the bridge instead of letting the train crash into the ravine!But they won't. And we can't make them. You can only save yourself.>>536303498A relatively small class of servants and functionaries who serve the elites is the norm throughout history. This is not a new thing; it's actually quite old.
>>536303498Withdrawal of welfare means that poors will be forced to work in order to survive. If the American natives won't do those jobs, ten million immigrants will be happy to do them. If the natives cause a ruckus about being replaced, they can go live for free in prison.
>>536303943>some warning>just get rich lolyou're actually retarded
>>536303888Checked but I don't think you can buy any running Transit or especially any running Sprinter for only $10K. Regardless this isn't about saving money it's about building equity and investing towards one's future and the fact younger generations have been completely cut off from both.
>>536301251Imagine loving orange daddy while filling that has hog up.
>>536301251Great. Let the kikes fleece the boomers and the rest of society will move back to local jobs with community based economies completely removed from jew meddling. But something tells me that if that happened, those grotesque noses would sniff out all the revenue that wasn't going towards them and would start trying to claw their way back in.
>>536301251tl;drbut, I have that almost exact truckstay poor
>>536301383you should be NEETing and investing in the stock market, retard.
>>536301751how many overpriced vehicles can one person buy, really? or any other product for that matter
>>536306151I don't personally know. But corporations themselves have run through the numbers using all kinds of min-max algorithms. In other words, it seems to be the case that selling 10 million people a $15,000 car every 10 to 15 years is not as profitable as selling the wealthiest 1.5 million of those buyers a $150,000 car every 5 to 7 years. They have the calculations.
>>536301350This.I hope they all go bankrupt trying to sell $100k pickups. There's 0 reason car companies can't manufacture trucks in old school style like early 2000 Tacomas or Ford Rangers and sell them for $12k
>>536304030Should have worked harder in school and lived below your means. Sorry if you were born retarded. Not my problem though. Nobody’s getting my dough without dodging a few bullets.T. Blue eyed white zillenial
>>536301579>Auto industry is going to collapse in the next few yearstwo more weeks
>>536301350They know and they don't care. You're not the target market.
I wish my beloved and much appreciated fellow inhabitants of planet Earth a wonderful happy good morning and a blessed day, accompanied by kindness and respect towards us and nature. May God bless you.language of the ovens translation:I transported carbon from 300 million years ago directly in to your great great great grand children's lungs in my 5000 pound gas chamber concentration camp oven with wheels on it to get up to the mountain again!
>>536301251>The top 10-15% of American households now have so much money
>>536303757Necons aren't conservatives, they are judeo-communist infi trators larping as conservatives and doing a terrible job at it.TRUMPISNOTCONSERVATIVE
>>536301251this is such a retarded model. great, you sold 10 units at 100k each rather than 1000 at 10k, and where you would have had 10x the people come in for services after the fact
>>536301892Minimalism in a world of consumerism is the only way. Silent rebellion is effective.
>>536301350>I'm not buying that fucking garbage lmaokek by the time you finish paying for it, it will already have been compressed and sent to China to be melted down for at least 5 or 6 years.
>>536306793Except that is for you the regular folks. The system is/has already begun moving away from serving the needs of regulars. Government is done entertaining the whims of the people, technology doesn't even need a govt serving you at all. When you see the corporations not giving a damn about you the regular people, it's clear what is going on. While you are still wandering around grumbling it is all advancing and leaving you where you are, far far behind the curve.
>>536302727you can buy it now while it is cheap relative to the future- they very action you just described
>>536311026Sure if I could find a boomer willing to sell to me a house for what they paid, adjusted for inflation of course. I would go buy a few tomorrow.
>>536301251>The other 85% are simply not that useful the economy anymoreThey should stop paying taxes and going to work then. See what happens to the economy retard.
