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It blows me away the people whining that the cyber truck isn't the price they expected it to be 5 years ago.

If you're go to a dealership near me you can't get *any* truck for $36,000, much less one made with cutting edge EV tech with a stainless steel body and frame. It's like people don't realize the past 5 years had consequences.

For sure, but what sucks is it happened in the entire vehicle market.

Little lady wanted us to look at a minivan, and when I saw a new one is $70,000 -- Like... what?! Who is buying new vehicles at this point?

No argument there. I'm seeing 10 year old vehicles with 200,000 miles going for tens of thousands of dollars. Like.. What the hell is wrong with people?

I remember someone showed me what the used market looks like in europe, it's night and day. I think there's 2 factors at work. First was the cash for clunkers program that helped take tons of used cars off the market and destroy them. The other is the mass availability of credit that has meant it's way too easy to spend a lot of money on a piece of crap car and helped build up an industry around companies massively overcharging for crappy used cars which means that the price keeps creeping up and up and up since there's so much money to be made.

There's 3 things we have a lot of in my city: Pot shops, payday loan places, and used car lots. Guess what they have in common?

Basically ways to print money.

Once pot got legalized in Canada they sprung up everywhere because there's tons of pent-up demand. Yes, high margins (or at least they expect high margins and so people have opened a ton of them, we'll see if there are long-term)

Yeah... Hoping there's a change in leadership soon who can stop breaking the damn place, it used to be a really nice place to live.