Average U.S. vehicle age hits record 12.6 years as high prices force people to keep them longer

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Average U.S. vehicle age hits record 12.6 years as high prices force people to keep them longer
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My new favorite game is:

When the news says “high prices”, replace it with “low wages”; “inflation” with “paycuts”.

The whole economy starts to make a lot more sense.

Someone make this a browser extension

Yeah I mean even just go to BLS inflation calculator and put in car prices. Cars are cheap, but if federal min wage was equal to min wage in 1960 (and this is by official stats) it would be able $16 an hour. Cars are cheap, we're getting shafted on pay like hell. Hopefully tech moves so fast it just blows everything out of the water. Hopefully not literally. Hopefully not hell on the other side. Time will tell. But my backup is a shotgun to the forehead so I got my backup plan lol

Please don't have my backup plan. Truly a "if it's hell on earth" situation. It just gives me mild comfort I can extinguish at least my human consciousness is necessary. Lol