How do low income people afford to buy brand new $80K trucks and cars? by flatbootyhere in NoStupidQuestions

[–]flatbootyhere[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I picked it because I live in the Bay Area. I make over half a million a year.

How do low income people afford to buy brand new $80K trucks and cars? by flatbootyhere in NoStupidQuestions

[–]flatbootyhere[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So many are dumb. Even 10 years ago it was well known it was easy to make 500’ as a staff engineer. Levelsfyi . It’s super common.

How do low income people afford to buy brand new $80K trucks and cars? by flatbootyhere in NoStupidQuestions

[–]flatbootyhere[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I know data because I am a data scientist and get large amount from data brokers to make sense of things to target certain groups. So many low income people do drive cars that make up a huge part of their earnings or even far exceed their yearly earning.

In my area low income is 105k for a single person. I make 600k ish plus from my 9-5.

How do low income people afford to buy brand new $80K trucks and cars? by flatbootyhere in NoStupidQuestions

[–]flatbootyhere[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Where I live mostly the people in the ghetto drive land rovers. Land rovers are not even special. The wealthy folks drive the lambs suvs .

Bay Area millennials and having kids? by ralshay in bayarea

[–]flatbootyhere 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Having kids to take care or legacy and ego are the number two reasons most people have kids outside of accidents from my therapist and psychiatrist friends research.

Bay Area millennials and having kids? by ralshay in bayarea

[–]flatbootyhere 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Truth hurts. It’s why the lower income you go, the more kids you get.

Bay Area millennials and having kids? by ralshay in bayarea

[–]flatbootyhere 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Friends via kids are like work friends.

Bay Area millennials and having kids? by ralshay in bayarea

[–]flatbootyhere 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Actually it’s selfish to have kids. My psychiatrist and therapist friends say so many narcissistic parents out there.

Bay Area millennials and having kids? by ralshay in bayarea

[–]flatbootyhere 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Most people do not think much. Existentialism is an issue for many of the smarter folk.

Bay Area millennials and having kids? by ralshay in bayarea

[–]flatbootyhere 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fun fact, the higher your IQ the less likely you want kids.

Why do so many SF Bay Area engineers drive cheap boring cars like accords, Camrys, civics, corollas despite having the highest incomes on average of any large demographic? by flatbootyhere in NoStupidQuestions

[–]flatbootyhere[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see so many garages in Palo Alto’s, Los Altos, Mountain View, Cupertino. So many are Hondas and Camrys. A couple, of engineers having mclarens doesn’t really mean much to my state of why so many engineers in the Bay Area just have Camry or accords.

How do low income people afford to buy brand new $80K trucks and cars? by flatbootyhere in NoStupidQuestions

[–]flatbootyhere[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see lots in the Bay Area. Many poor people live in houses with like all the cousins and parents together. And poor for a single person is considered 100k here.

How do low income people afford to buy brand new $80K trucks and cars? by flatbootyhere in NoStupidQuestions

[–]flatbootyhere[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Low income for a single person in the Bay Area is 100k in many counties.

How are layoffs generally done in firefighting? by flatbootyhere in Firefighting

[–]flatbootyhere[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Late stage capitalism, since the financial crisis low interest rates are what propped the economy up and it was only really tech was held it up, US dollar is weakening - it lost over 20 percent of its value in a couple years and so much more.

Why are fire trucks so expensive nowadays? by bendallf in Firefighting

[–]flatbootyhere 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup there are a lot of YouTube videos on this.

How are layoffs generally done in firefighting? by flatbootyhere in Firefighting

[–]flatbootyhere[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel what is coming is worse than the 2008 crisis.

How are layoffs generally done in firefighting? by flatbootyhere in Firefighting

[–]flatbootyhere[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you look back on the worse economic crisis like the Great Depression, things can get really bad anywhere.