• heavy@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    Well to be fair, the argument is similar to telling folks about to suffer from client change to sell their property and move. How are they gonna get rid of it? They’re probably upside down on it too. Maybe you get lucky and sell it to a wealthy conservative?

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      I don’t have much pity for people who are upside down on a vehicle that sells for the price of a Cybertruck

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        I agree, I don’t have pitty either, I’m just saying they exist now and I imagine you can’t just drive it into a lake.

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        A cyber truck costs more than my house and huge yard did. I started comparing large purchases to the cost of my house, and it makes rich folks seem even crazier. Some people will buy a piece of shit, hazardous car for more than what some houses are worth. My house is in fine condition, too, it’s just very small and I got very very lucky with timing and the seller knowing what the property is actually worth.

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          Do houses even go for that cheap anymore?

          After all the inflation, housing shortages, corporations buying housing, air bnbers, I figured houses across the board have become unattainable across the board.

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            You gotta ask where they live. That’s not a city price, or even a suburb price. They live far from things, maybe have a small town nearby that hasn’t been gentrified yet.

            As far as houses where the vast majority of people and, importantly, opportunities are you’re right about the market being fucked.

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            I got my house in 2022 for 60k. I closed a week before the market went absolutely bonkers, so I got really lucky with it. Idk how much it would cost nowadays, but probably too much.

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              Your house cost about as much as any tesla.

              tesla is an expensive luxury vehicle that nobody needs and that people replaced their perfectly functional cars with. All in the name of appearing cool and echo and paying half a hundred k for it. They have also always been built comparably to a cybertruck.

              It’s not a 3k honda civic

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      I remember seeing too that because of fear of scalpers, Tesla made a lot of Cybertruck buyers sign an agreement saying they wouldn’t sell the car for X number of years.

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        And how are they going to enforce that?

        Legally speaking, how can Tesla stop you from selling your car?

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          They made them sign a contract. They’ll sue you for breach of contract and you will lose and be out a lot of money.

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          They can’t, but they can bar you from buying new ones after. If they do that or not is another question.

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      4 days ago

      Hey that is life.

      Maybe next time don’t invest your money into a fascist. If it took you this long to realize what Elon musk is then shame on you. Little sympathy from me, especially if you still own it.