Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "Why Are Cars Suddenly So Expensive?" video.

Thats so sad.
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@somethinglikethat2176 I grew up in the north of Thatchers Briain, going to school in a black trash bag too poor to afford a coat. By 2014 I was worth €6 million [this is not a boast as you will see]. The biggest breakpoint on that journey is when you have ENOUGH money to cover almost any normal emergency without having to take on short-term debt. when you car get stolen and its insured 3rd party only and you have the €5k in the bank to just go buy one to get you to work. When a large electricity bill does not send you into expensive overdraft. When you are not using the credit card to pay the grocery shopping cos you ran out of money. IF yo ucan get to that point where all normal purchases are made wiht cash YOU OWN - suddenly you start to accumulate money, buy things when they are on special offer, but the car your mate is desperate to sell. suddenly the cost of life drops about 35%. It is incredibly expensive to be poor...!!! Late 2014 I suffered brain damage in a mugging and lost everything, but when i get myself back together I had learned my lesson and lived on next to nothing to save up that €5000. I now live a very tiny minimalist but stress-free life cos I HAVE that money in a safe on the wall, I can cover an emergency and NOT be plunged into debt and poverty. In America the covid payment - I think they lifted like 25 million kids out of poverty cos the family could save for the first time ever...
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@NoName-to5xl MY LANDLORD JUST BOUGHT a very low mileage 30 year old VW Golf Deisel My landlord is a very clever guy. But it is genuinely easier for a wealthy man to drive a €2000 car than a poor man. Because the wealthy man does not have the entire pressure of the capitalist system pressing down on him telling him he is a failure. When I was poor I bought cars I could not afford. Now I live quite comfortably I get the bus [we have an excellent bus service here] Its not fair to tell a person they are what they own, their worth as a human beings if what they drive and what they consume, and then criticise them for not buying a $2k car. Strangely where I now live, people buy a car and run it until it falls apart, it is entirely normal for wealthy people to have a 30 year old Mercedes they have had since new, but this is not America. You would be a total loser in America for this behavior.
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@jonb5493 - Its almost certainly linen or a linen silk blend, if you look at the curves that catch the light it has a slight sheen to it. Its also bespoke, look at the shoulder seam, the stripes match and form >>>> no way on gods earth you would get such a perfect match on off-the-rack jackets. [I handcraft bespoke historical men's suits]
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@jimpaddy79 EXACTLY - As Xi Jinping said recently to the billionaires in China "You are NOT self made. You did well and yes you deserve praise for your success, but your mother looked after you, birthed you in a hospital paid for by society, society schooled you, you drive on roads maintained by society and you fly your jet safely because of the air traffic control provided by the state, your business is done over the internet provided by society, you rose to the top of society but yo are from society and part of society. If you don't start giving back to that society in appropriate levels we will take all your money off you" I paraphrase.
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@silv3rArrow - I absolutely could not agree MORE. But 50% of the USA's GDP is people “keeping up with the joneses”. I was the world's worst victim of this as I grew up very poor and genuinely deprived, I wasted hundreds of thousands of £ and € mostly on cars.
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MY LANDLORD JUST BOUGHT a very low mileage 30 year old VW Golf Deisel My landlord is a very clever guy.
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@okgroomer1966 YES I am craping on capitalism and YES there are plenty free lunches in this world as long as you already have a few million in the bank the world is FULL of free lunches. Only the poor don't get a free lunch. How do you suppose we generate wealth without it?" I propose you DONT GENERATE WEALTH - I propose yo live in a world with universal basic services of a high quality and you live a life that is sustainable and supportable on a planet with 8 billion people and you STOP chasing wealth cos you CAN NOT HANE 8 billion people all chasing wealth. Have you not noticed - its killing the planet...??? Money is limited - for you to be wealthy other people have to be poor. Your goal in life is to make as many people destitute as possible so you can be rich. Every excess $100k yo have in your bank is kids going to school in worn-out second-hand clothes, people pulling their own teeth out too poor to afford a dentist. Capitalism is the lie that infinite growth on a finite planet was possible - its NOT and we have reached [sadly] crunch time when that lie starts to collapse. BTW - I can go all day on this - Im an author now, I write books on psychology and the collapse of civilisations.
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