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On the other hand, being forced to settle for whatever car is currently available sounds very soviet as well. A real capitalist would much rather have their exp
by thescriptkiddie 11y ago
On the other hand, being forced to settle for whatever car is currently available sounds very soviet as well. A real capitalist would much rather have their expensive new depreciating asset assembled to their exact specifications and handed over with 0 miles on the odometer.
- marssaxman 11y agoThis libertarian socialist prefers to let other people fund the depreciation. If a car's still in good shape by the time it's old enough that I can consider buying it without having to take out a loan, it's likely to stay in good shape as long as I continue to take care of it. Maintenance is expensive when it happens, but a loan payment happens every month, and the loan companies require you to pay for expensive insurance on top of that, so it's a pretty big win to just keep up an old car instead of buying a new one. As an additional bonus, older cars are far less likely to be encrusted with insecure, untrustworthy, unreliable microcontroller-based nonsense, much less anything so insane as Tesla's over-the-air automatic firmware updates or GM's yes-we-rooted-your-car-in-the-factory OnStar thing.