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It might be! OP said new car! Basically doesn’t matter where on the curve you pick for that, I think your total cost of ownership will be lower

Even if every $1,000 car you buy only lasts three months it’s going to take you most of that 20 years to get close, and at least a few are probably going to last longer than three months

Good! That doesn’t affect my point or the list I’m responding to!

“Why are the kids listening to music they can dance, fuck, and do drugs to” Obviously, to pull attention away from a state system that cannibalizes the region around it.

You can buy a lot of $1,000 cars for the price of a new car

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Some of it comes from actual improvement! More expensive things are often better, more comfortable, more convenient, more powerful, but they’re rarely cheaper

“sooner than the new car”

A lot of the price on the upper end comes not from actual improvements but status

“In 20 years you've paid more for cars than a richer person has.”

If a cheap pair of boots costs $60 and a good pair were to cost $600 then it might be worse springing for the more expensive for the good of your foot, but probably not your wallet, it probably won’t actually be a 10x lifespan increase

I used to be a big Boots Theory guy and then I realized often it’s better to kind of stratify your consumption. If it’s a thing you use a lot and care about then it often makes sense to spend, but more for ergonomics or features that are unavailable than lifetime savings

To get through the 20 years each one only needs to last six months

You can buy a lot of those before they’re more expensive than a new car

Like that initial depreciation hit is real big in terms of the total dollars

Now you are more likely to experience certain opportunity costs due to car needing repair, car not available, needing to find/finance liquidity for non-warranty repairs; but still I feel pretty confident it’s going to be lower in total cost

There’s real tricky authors like Teddy Roosevelt and Winston Churchill where you need to decide if they were bad people

I stand by my statement that it is a deranged phrase to use

This isn’t some rec league softball game, it’s the United States Senate. You are being asked to be granted oversight over war and peace, life and death for millions

I’m starting to think this Matt Walsh guy doesn’t have very many real principles