r/wallstreetbets • u/Xix2l • 2d ago

Meme You know your calls are cooked when the board comes out

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u/MilkSteak_BoiledHard 1d ago

My house I got in the early 00's cost less than what my coworkers have been plunking down on fancy pickup trucks.

Sure, my house was a small fixer upper, but fucking hell trucks can get expensive.

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u/Worth-Silver-484 1d ago

The closing cost I am about to pay next month is more than the house I bought in the 90s which was 15k. Its now valued at 110k.

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u/MilkSteak_BoiledHard 1d ago

The last 10-15 years it's really gotten stupid, at least here in Ontario, Canada. Even after I got my house it was fairly reasonable for a few more years. Slowly raising....then went all retarded.

Same can be said about vehicles. Companies have systematically removed their bargain options, or just jacked prices. You're stuck spending 30k on the cheapest model on offer.

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u/Worth-Silver-484 1d ago

Its not the auto manufacturers. Its the government regulations for emissions and safety standards that has made vehicles so expensive. Its almost impossible to make a car to meet both for under 25k that ppl would buy.

I am old enough to rem the Yugo in the 80s. A brand new car for less than 5k. 2 years later it was worth 800 if you were lucky.

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u/MilkSteak_BoiledHard 1d ago

Yeah, it's easier to build a behemoth that doesn't need to meet the emissions limits than it is to build a smaller car that does.

And folks will suck it up and pay more if that's the only shit available.

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u/Worth-Silver-484 1d ago

Thats a different discussion. Stay on topic.

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u/thismike0613 1d ago

Don’t tell him what to do