Why are people still buying new cars or even worse still leasing them?

I had a family who was given a used vehicle with no debt and they squandered that opportunity to then finance a Telsa which they are now trying to pawn to me.

This sales pitch is how much value it has held and how it has appreciated. I wonder if this is the same phrase the sales person used on them.

These are depreciating "assets" with sometimes crazy interest rates and monthly payments.

Worse thing is that two other families members ended up getting luxury vehicles to flex on one another.

Not mad, just disappointed.

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Standard normie keeping up with the Jones's action. It will never end.

It's even worse with social media and now everyone is comparing their lifestyles to the 0.0001 percent

I love my little 49 cc scooter 🛵 it's been five years now and I'm not even considering a car anymore. I constantly get comments on how I need a car/truck and like... No I don't? Neither do you but you don't question the social script you were given.

The same folks who roll their eyes at me for the "luxury" of getting an Uber/Lyft once a month when I socialize will complain endlessly about insurance costs, gas costs, and enormous car payments and not see the connection. Like why spend all that just to be mad in traffic? Take the bus and read a book.