“There’s this wild disconnect between what people are experiencing and what economists are experiencing,” says Nikki Cimino, a recruiter in Denver.

  • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 months ago

    That hinges on the assumption that the car he’s replacing is a beater, which isn’t necessarily true. All he said is that he could’ve bought another beater, which says that he had bought one before, but the car he’s replacing could’ve been a non-beater that he had bought because he had already learned how pricey constantly replacing beaters is. And by the sounds of it, having to replace the car was an unplanned expense, which says to me that he wasn’t driving a beater.

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      9 months ago

      Why not just ask him instead of trying to finely parse ambiguous wording like this is some kind of murder mystery? I asked him for clarification myself earlier but he never responded to that.