alt Hacker NewsPeople have no money for cars. Maybe boomers whose health insurance you subsidize and whose overpriced apartments you rent can still afford one.
Everyone else struggles with health insurance up more than 100% in 10 years, Döner up 100% in 6 years, electricity costs etc.
But we feel good about the "rules based international order", which only the EU follows right now, dictated by public servants with inflation-indexed pensions.
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Americans and Chinese have money for cars. Europeans, less so.
I don't think cars have ever been so unexciting. As long as regulations were improving security it was fine, but in recent years they only push for more control and surveillance. Still despite the byzantine regulations they failed to address e.g. the obnoxious blinding headlights.
Then yeah, rich boomers from rich EU countries are leaving scorched earth to everyone except their immediate family.
I'm really happy not having a car anymore though. It gives me a lot of freedom. When I had a car I had to think about when to get back to it because of parking fees. To get it fixed/maintained. To have to return to the place I left it (I often walk across town). I couldn't have a drink before going back home.
There were a few pluses like bringing big stuff and going outside of the city but I rarely do those things.