• hglman@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    The signal of a less enthused Gen Z when it comes to driving could affect the car industry. But McKinsey analysts point out that previous generations of Americans had also appeared less interested in driving but went behind the wheel of cars eventually.

    It’s like a threat

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      It’s like a threat

      Welcome to America. This is how it’s done.

      Nobody is really interested in the way things work here, it’s literally about forcing you to accept that you have to live this way to even begin to survive. It’s about making people make choices they wouldn’t otherwise make, based on a system of requirements that is always changing.

      It was the same way with homeownership until it wasn’t. Americans turned more conservative as they aged and got more “skin in the game” in the markets. They started seeing their homes valuation as something important, and so businesses and stocks doing well was also suddenly important. It’s interesting (not) that their children who are not able to be similarly invested because they can’t even begin to afford a house are not growing up conservative.

      Cars will be forced on the populace, the people that run this country have no imagination and refuse to budge because they’re making too much stinking money with how it works right now and they’re going to drive this sucker into the ground, drain every last penny out of the economy, and then the rich will fuck off to Europe or Australia or Honduras or somewhere they can ignore how they hollowed out one of the largest nations, which is quite an achievement.