> He has the original invoice showing the car cost £215 in 1938, the equivalent of about £18,000 today. Wow. $22K USD inflation-adjusted for a hand-made car in

> He has the original invoice showing the car cost £215 in 1938, the equivalent of about £18,000 today. Wow. $22K USD inflation-adjusted for a hand-made car in 1938. Cheaper than cars that are made by robots today. You'd think that after 80 years of technological progress and automation, they'd cost less than $1000 by now. What is going on? Surely this makes a strong case that modern poverty is artificial and done on purpose. And how can a kid barely out of school afford to buy all this stuff? I swear some people are living in a parallel universe.