So much failure to launch with the younger generation.
Dude even minivans are $40-$50K right now. Terrible time to buy a car.
Individualist mindsets are becoming a luxury. We need to start building public transit on mass.
Thats like saying people are choosing to be homeless because its more greener or sustainable or some other bullshit. Typical sheltered rich analysts opinion.
Adding a driver to your policy increases insurance cost. Parents cant take on extra bills when theyre barely afloat.
Also genz simply cannot afford to go out anywhere.
Analysts: why cant American reproduce? Why is the population mostly coming from the most desperate poor immigrants?
Or they can’t afford to drive?
Millennials went through a similar phase. Around a decade ago, many newspaper articles and research papers noted that the millennial generation — often defined as those born between 1981 and 1996 — were shunning cars
Gen X parent here…my kids will not have a choice…we will be making an appointment on their 16th birthday to obtain a learners permit. Then I will enjoy them getting themselves places after 16 years of being a taxi driver.
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I paid 400 dollars for my first car, and less than a thousand for a couple more after that. How many running cars are available in that price range today?
Choosing?! Cars are the most overpriced and start at 40k, there’s no choice here. The first new car I ever bought was 14k. Automakers have priced out Gen Z.
Meh, currently in Brazil a shitty small popular car (hb20) costs around 90k reais which is 60 minimum wages (1,5k) before taxes. Realistically if a medium worker could save a third of his income, he would still take 15years+ for to be able to afford a car.
Not really a choice there, and I didn’t even talk about real estate prices. Those go up to 500k reais for a 60m² apartment without a parking spot in a city like Sao Paulo, which means 330 years of a minimum wage before taxes. Thing is that millenials and Z’s will actually own nothing and also be unhappy. The game was rigged from the start and current purchasing power have condemned anyone who’s starting from scratch to modern slavery.
Cars, the maintenance, the insurance, etc. All way to expensive. I hope they push for more public transportation
America is a country of “market competition”, if ONE city in the United States were smart enough to compete on the basis of walkability and public transportation, they would win an entire generation to want to live there.
*Gen Z is* *~~choosing~~* *forced not to drive due to inflated costs for EVERYTHING.*
It bothers me how many people are choosing not to learn to drive at all. I completely understand not wanting to own a vehicle. But not knowing how to operate one in America where so much of the country is car dependent. That’s a scary prospect just because of how limiting it is for many people.
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So much failure to launch with the younger generation.
Dude even minivans are $40-$50K right now. Terrible time to buy a car.
Individualist mindsets are becoming a luxury. We need to start building public transit on mass.
Thats like saying people are choosing to be homeless because its more greener or sustainable or some other bullshit. Typical sheltered rich analysts opinion.
Adding a driver to your policy increases insurance cost. Parents cant take on extra bills when theyre barely afloat.
Also genz simply cannot afford to go out anywhere.
Analysts: why cant American reproduce? Why is the population mostly coming from the most desperate poor immigrants?
Or they can’t afford to drive?
Millennials went through a similar phase. Around a decade ago, many newspaper articles and research papers noted that the millennial generation — often defined as those born between 1981 and 1996 — were shunning cars
Gen X parent here…my kids will not have a choice…we will be making an appointment on their 16th birthday to obtain a learners permit. Then I will enjoy them getting themselves places after 16 years of being a taxi driver.
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I paid 400 dollars for my first car, and less than a thousand for a couple more after that. How many running cars are available in that price range today?
Choosing?! Cars are the most overpriced and start at 40k, there’s no choice here. The first new car I ever bought was 14k. Automakers have priced out Gen Z.
Meh, currently in Brazil a shitty small popular car (hb20) costs around 90k reais which is 60 minimum wages (1,5k) before taxes. Realistically if a medium worker could save a third of his income, he would still take 15years+ for to be able to afford a car.
Not really a choice there, and I didn’t even talk about real estate prices. Those go up to 500k reais for a 60m² apartment without a parking spot in a city like Sao Paulo, which means 330 years of a minimum wage before taxes. Thing is that millenials and Z’s will actually own nothing and also be unhappy. The game was rigged from the start and current purchasing power have condemned anyone who’s starting from scratch to modern slavery.
Cars, the maintenance, the insurance, etc. All way to expensive. I hope they push for more public transportation
America is a country of “market competition”, if ONE city in the United States were smart enough to compete on the basis of walkability and public transportation, they would win an entire generation to want to live there.
*Gen Z is* *~~choosing~~* *forced not to drive due to inflated costs for EVERYTHING.*
It bothers me how many people are choosing not to learn to drive at all. I completely understand not wanting to own a vehicle. But not knowing how to operate one in America where so much of the country is car dependent. That’s a scary prospect just because of how limiting it is for many people.