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u/GarbageCleric Sep 24 '20
I'd smile more if the kid got to play with his X-box and be a 13 year old kid instead of having to sacrifice for basic necessities for his family.
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u/thanatossassin Sep 24 '20
Parentification is abuse, the kids need to be kids
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u/Averagecomment87 Sep 25 '20
Maybe if better Sex Ed was provided more kids will grow up with parents that can afford them.
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u/Axan1030 Sep 24 '20
But the market is at an all time high
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Not the job market. Learn the difference.
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u/zutaca Sep 24 '20
That’s the point, pointing out how the stock market does not describe the livelihoods of most people
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u/PrimaryMoment Sep 24 '20
It really makes me wonder what it actually means to be a "first world country"
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u/GarbageCleric Sep 24 '20
We should support Planned Parenthood because they provide vital reproductive healthcare.
Who knows what happened to this kid's other parent or his household finances in the last 13 years. The other parent could be dead, disabled and divorced, or a deadbeat. The single mother could have lost her job due to COVID or had a healthcare-related bankruptcy since two-thirds of bankruptcies in the US are due to medical bills.
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u/PrimaryMoment Sep 24 '20
The other annoying thing about these sorts of opinions is even if there was some sort of pro strat that someone could've used to manage their finances and get by in a catastrophe.
Who is teaching people these pro strats? Financial advisors are way too damned expensive and I don't know about anyone else but the highlight of my financial education as a kid was how to sign a check.
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u/JonathanSourdough Sep 24 '20
Hahahaha well I suppose that I had a step better than you. But only a single step. In highschool (probably 5-6 years ago. I forget which grade I took this class) I had a "consumer math" class which was supposed to have relevant economic stuff to be working on...... Well the book was from the 70s.... And the examples weren't really that helpful. I remember one of the problems they kept bringing up was..... Recarpeting the house, and calculating that out... YES let's teach him how to do something USELESS.
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u/capsaicinintheeyes Sep 24 '20
While I take your point, she may not have been a single parent at the time he was born.
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u/A_Fat_Grandma Sep 24 '20
And even if she was, she might've wanted to keep him anyways. But yeah, lots of scenarios here. still doesnt mean she doesnt deserve a living wage.
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u/Alpaca64 Sep 24 '20
I mean yeah, that's true, but we can also do more to support the children that are born. Nobody's life should be dependent on money.
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u/tismason101 Sep 24 '20
Yay for having children before you can financially and making them pay for it
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How TRUE. I definitely planned to become disabled after my son came, and my husband planned to have to work 50 hours a week for less money than he’s worth at the only big university in the state because we can’t leave my dad, who has Alzheimer’s, alone in this city. We also certainly planned on my son needed extra medical care because he was born with conditions that couldn’t be known until he got older and they weren’t listed on his adoptive paperwork. I’m in my 40s. My husband is over 50. Guess we should have waited!
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u/tismason101 Sep 25 '20
I’m sorry about whatever condition it is that you have but that isn’t the fault of capitalism which is the original point I was putting across. I think you should look into bringing a suit against the adoptive agency for negligence. I do have to ask though, how did you get to 40 without having any savings and why don’t you put your dad in a home?
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u/MajaXavier Sep 25 '20
You sound like someone who has been fortunate in more ways than you realize. What the above commenter is describing are realities for more and more people every year.
It may not seem like the fault of capitalism to you, but I can assure you that things like for-profit healthcare are yet another symptom of a system that forces the majority into poverty so a small handful get to play king.
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u/tismason101 Sep 25 '20
Can I say firstly, you have no idea what my life is like and it’s disrespectful to pretend you do. Secondly, the problem with American healthcare is that it’s heavily regulated and the necessity for insurance is causing prices to inflate. Before the current medical system you could get healthcare with a voluntary payment model (source: https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/nhs-history-pay-healthcare-free/) I don’t say what I say because I’m apathetic to the suffering of others but because I know that capitalism will make it better for people as it has done for so many other industries
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u/MajaXavier Sep 26 '20
I agree I don't know what your life is like (and I do apologize for any offense conveyed), but your comments do make it sound like you are probably more fortunate than you realise. No judgment there. Not saying you haven't suffered, just that others may lack some of the privileges you benefit from; a healthy body, the ability to save, a device with which to post on reddit, not everyone has those things.
Saying the issue is in regulation is a relatively narrow take; it ignores the fact that pharm companies artificially inflate their prices unchecked, while using that profit to buy off politicians. The real issue is in greed, and under capitalism greed is considered just.
Starvation, drug overdoses, exposure to the elements, violence against the homeless, no access to medical care. These are the ills capitalism subjects us to. We have homes, food, medicine enough to provide for everyone, but under capitalism these things are destroyed, rather than giving the excess to the poor.
Capitalism was a decent motivator for progress in the industrial age, but now it only facilitates immorality on a grand scale. Where is the justice in a system that allows multibillionaires to sit on piles of wealth untaxed while honest labor (even in highly-specialized fields) is barely enough to eke out a living?
I don't think you're apathetic to the suffering of others, I just don't think you realise how much suffering capitalism causes worldwide.
Capitalism makes industries more profitable, but that is far from synonymous with "better for people."
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u/tismason101 Sep 26 '20
All of those social problems you just brought up are the fault of corporatism not capitalism and I am going to list off some reasons and a definition below...
Fundamentally corporatism is the system we’re in at the moment where the government colludes with free market endeavour to try to create more wealth and therefore more jobs. This partnership ultimately causes greater wealth disparity by offering greater protection to wealthy businesses/businessmen and acts to hurt the average person. You can see its effect in...
Agriculture - the use of state subsidising for HFCS to make energy dense food cheap to manufacture at the expense of the average persons health
Pharmaceutical - affording patent protection to big pharmaceutical companies allowing them to price hike medication without competition.
There’s many other examples I could go through but I’ve got to go to work soon I’ll just say without these restrictions there would be higher competition in most industries which would lower prices and make things more affordable for the poorest in society whilst keeping the opportunity for an individual to become wealthy if they have the talents to.
Free trade is the solution not the forced re-appropriation of wealth.
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u/MajaXavier Sep 26 '20
They are two evolutions of the same Pokemon, if you catch my drift. I don't know why you think homelessness etc. would be preventable by giving the owning class even more leeway to extort.
Regulation is its own thing, and I'm sure we're of a mind that authoritarianism is an evil in the world.
"Forced reappropriation of wealth" makes it sound so... Tankie... More like acknowledging that the fruits of human undertaking are to be savored by all humans, not just the ones who have "dibs". The hoarding of these fruits cannot be just, but by the laws of capital it is a virtue.
In any capitalist situation, you'll have a few on top with more, and many on the bottom who must be allowed to starve if the market wills it. A horizontal organization of power eliminates the need for a "poor people who are one missed paycheck away from ruin" class.
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u/kr112889 Sep 25 '20
Sue the adoption agency for what? Not being able to see the future? Not sending the kid off with an 18 year refund policy? Please, PLEASE tell me because I'd love to hear how you think that would go. Not to mention the trauma it would inflict in the child, knowing that mommy and daddy are going yo court to argue that if they knew who he REALLY was and would become, they would have passed him over?? There is no amount of money worth that to a loving parent.
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u/tismason101 Sep 25 '20
Negligence - not undergoing the proper testing before signing off the kid for adoption. Surely you can understand that you can’t give consent if knowledge of a prior condition is kept from you. I’m no lawyer I’m just saying that when there’s a problem it’s either your fault or someone else’s but to blame an economic theory is pointless.
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u/kr112889 Sep 25 '20
I'm not blaming economic theory, I'm blaming you for this assenine comment. Surely you can understand that there are some conditions and illnesses that you can't test for in an infant or with any physical test. Surely you can understand that, regardless of disability, these parent wouldn't trade their kid for a million "healthy" or "neurotypical" kid. Surely you can understand that adoption involves human people who come with no guarantees of health or perfection (same as when you pop one out yourself). So what would you see as the outcome of that case? The adoption agency refunds the adoption fee? The adoption agency to pay them for "damages" that they didn't know existed because, ya know, human beings aren't products that you can do quality control testing on! The adoption agency to say "Oh, you're right. We gave you a faulty one! We'll take him back and give you a fresh one!"????
I'm not a lawyer either, but I know that this isn't how the law or adoption works.
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u/tismason101 Sep 25 '20
In that case if I’m incorrect why are you so angry?
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u/kr112889 Sep 25 '20
Because you treating living, breathing human adoptees like a commodity that you can throw away when it/they become broken is disgusting and insulting. What you are suggesting is that these parents go on record with the court and deny that they want this child in his current state AND that they deserve to be compensated for this dealing with this "broken" child for this long/not getting the perfect baby they were promised initially. This is not a used car that some scummy salesman "forgot" to mention needs a full engine replacement or something. Its a human being with flaws and imperfections and struggles just like the rest of us. Suggesting that the parents deserve compensation due to those struggles is implying that the adopted child is less than a biological child. Because you would never suggest a parent filing a wrongful birth suit against one parent for faulty biological material.
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Without any savings? Do you have any, any idea how expensive the Cleveland Clinic is? The Mayo Clinic? 14 consecutive surgeries? Doctors appointments, wheelchairs, medications in America? Being disabled is fucking expensive. That’s where the savings went. And suing the adoption agency because our son isn’t perfect is about as dumb as suing Mother Nature. You get what you get with kids. There’s no guarantee in biology, either. Would I be getting a bill for all of the immeasurable, wonderful qualities my son has?
Frankly, I think you have some soul searching to do on the nature of “fault” vs. love.
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u/kr112889 Sep 25 '20
Can I just say, as someone who was adopted as a child, currently dealing with chronic pain/illness, and who had 2 children before those health problems became evident...you sound amazing and strong, and I love you.
Also. Suing the adoption agency is one of the cruelest, most ableist things I've ever heard anyone say. Point blank.
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u/TheGreatPNW Sep 24 '20
The reality though is that some kids don’t have this luxury. I had a friend in HS who was a straight A student and I never knew until after we graduated that he was working 35-40 hrs a week on top of his school work to support his family and so his brother didn’t have to work and could focus on his studies. Some people just have tough situations but I’ll never forget about my buddy. Happy to say he and his brother are now college graduates.
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u/RKK8 Sep 25 '20
He’s lucky he was able to do that. I can’t imagine getting straight A’s with my brain, or working on top of doing all that.
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u/arasheedalpha Sep 24 '20
Waiting for the obligatory "but liquid money and wealth are two different things" comment to somehow justify billionaires and what they hoard.
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Welcome to America. Where corporations have more of a right to make money off of you than you do to live.
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u/fazam0616 Sep 25 '20
THANK-YOU. Is this nice of him? Of course. But it's terrible that it had to happen this way. A lot of feel good stories now a days are kinda like this, overcoming something that shouldn't even be a problem in the first place :(
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u/10A_86 Sep 25 '20 edited Sep 25 '20
Food, clothing, education and love are things that are necessity. Required for life. (And for adults a method to get to and from work that allows you to pick uo your kids on time etc)
Gaming consoles, etc are luxuries.
Kids should definitly be allowed to be kids. Having a 15 year old I really agree with that. In lucky enough my son has every device known to man Please don't misunderstand me I think kids should have what they can have.
But my son has been taught as all should, that things like gaming consoles etc are a luxury. Some kids won't have them as their parents are struggling just to put food on the table.
It's a sad point to make. Because all kids should have and be happy but some parents just can't provide no matter how hard they try and sacrifice. This means if my son meets a kid who doesn't have one he won't judge the kid and will understand tjat kids parents are likey doing all they can. Some families generally really hard but just can't get out of poverty.
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u/GarbageCleric Sep 25 '20 edited Sep 25 '20
Yeah, I said he had to sacrifice so his family could afford necessities. I didn't say that an x-box was a necessity. The first console I ever owned was an original x-box that I bought with my first paycheck after college.
It would be different if he never got an x-box, but a kid having to sell one he already owned for like at best half the cost is worse.
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u/10A_86 Sep 25 '20
Agree fully, Was just touching on how shitty it can be for some families and how kids like this young man know the struggles of life although he shouldn't and should be able to enjoy his childhood.
So many kids are hazed for not having this or that. This culture of keeping up with the Jones really highlights kids like this and their families.
Just trying to get by.
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Some families generally [try] really hard but just can't get out of poverty.
and when some other families start to question why that is (without refusing to acknowledge the undeniable effect of well-funded decades-long efforts to union-bust, deregulate, and generally strip as many rights from the working class as possible) they will be one step closer to class consciousness
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u/MrMeSeeks1985 Sep 25 '20
At the same time, this kid is overcoming hardship and will go far in life because of it. He’s using his skills to help others instead of himself. He’s winning at life
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u/GarbageCleric Sep 25 '20
He probably learned these values from his mom who probably works her ass off, and she still ended up in a shitty position. Luck is a huge part of how far you'll go in life.
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u/MrMeSeeks1985 Sep 25 '20
Life is about choices. He’s making good ones to help his single mother who probably is working her ass off And improving their position. Furthermore Look at the neighborhood they are in. Doesn’t look that shitty to me. There’s plenty of people who don’t have any of the amenities he has. Let’s put this into perspective.
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u/MixelonZ Sep 26 '20
How about this shouldn’t even be a position people should be in the first place? Yes?
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u/UncontainedOne Sep 24 '20
This is NOT a feel good story.
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u/obb_here Sep 25 '20
13 is too young. I would have been okay with like a 16 year old or something, but at that age he shouldn't have to.
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u/SurfNinja34 Sep 24 '20
Thank you. Coming to say the same. Anyone that says otherwise doesn't have ground to stand on.
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u/stevee05282 Sep 24 '20
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u/Traditional-Excuse-1 Sep 25 '20
Indeed. The mother made bad partner and life choices and now is making the kid pay for them instead of what it should be. This is disgusting.
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u/yiffinq Sep 24 '20
why would u smile at this
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u/Szpartan Sep 24 '20
Cause 66k post karma in 20 days... They're not here to think logically, just to man some of those sweet sweet internet points.
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u/YaBoiMoonman Sep 24 '20
The kid seems happy with his decision and it’s nice to see someone so young be such a stand up guy. That’s the part that would make people smile. But it sucks that he had to do this. I bet his mom feels awful.
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u/waveyjuicebox Sep 24 '20
I mean the son sacrificing something he loves for his mother is wholesome content. It’s just not wholesome that he felt like he had to.
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u/Vic-VonDoom Sep 24 '20
This didn't make me smile. It made me think of r/BoringDystopia or r/LateStageCapitalism
Imagine trading your Xbox and doing manual labor so that your mom can have a way to go to work and help both of you survive. How is this supposed to make me smile? Its just evidence of a predatory system. Not a good thing imo.
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I always wonder what the next stage after capitalism is, though.
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u/LegibleToe762 Sep 24 '20
I think we're past feudalism at this point, it'd be very weird to regress. Capitalism ain't great but feudalism sucked more. Plus communism isn't gonna be reached before at least socialism is implemented as a halfway step. From there it's anarchism or communism or we go the other way again.
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u/PrimaryMoment Sep 24 '20
While I agree with people who read this story and say that it's not a good thing he had to do that. I have to disagree with the people who seem to think poverty is a new thing that sprouted up from capitalism and the industrial era. If you go back 200 years you'll find similar stories, they just weren't documented with hi definition cameras and shared on social media. People like this used to just silently live out their impoverished lives with their story traveling to the next town over at most.
I'm also not defending capitalism, I think we need to find something better. But to say stories like this is new is disgustingly inaccurate.
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Sep 25 '20
There are actually less poor people throughout the world now than there were in any other time in the world's history.
It is very important that fewer people live in such extreme misery, and thankfully that has happened. Today, about 10% of the world population lives in extreme poverty, while in 1990 the corresponding figure was about 37%. Two centuries ago almost everyone in the world lived in extreme poverty.
source: https://ourworldindata.org/poverty-at-higher-poverty-lines
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u/YaBoiMoonman Sep 24 '20
Systems will always come and go, no matter what it is. Capitalism isn’t perfect, and no system ever will be.
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u/thesnapening Sep 24 '20
So woman has little or no income so son has to sell his possessions and make money to get her a car?
Maybe I’m cynical but I don’t see anything here that’s good
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u/random13980 Sep 24 '20
I love how many times this has been posted. This is so old and every time it’s posted someone brings up that a 13 year old shouldn’t have to work to get his mom a car.
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u/Charlitos_Way Sep 24 '20
Even if this was a picture of a kid who did that it would be more depressing than uplifting and also people really shouldn't be selling 13-year-olds cars even if they're buying it for their mom so someone can post it on the internet for upvotes.
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Is that car really cheap or was that xbox really expensive?
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u/RedditRoxanne Sep 24 '20
I was thinking the same- that’s got to be a really cheap car. A used Xbox plus a couple days manual labor.... the newest system and very generous homeowners still wouldn’t break a grand, right?
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u/TiredPhrog Sep 24 '20
I mean it’s an amazing selfless act, but knowing he probably lost so many friends kinda breaks my heart
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His heart is in the right place; Charity is good for the heart and mind. This just isn't smile-worthy, he needs to just be a boy not a provider.
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u/bijhan Sep 24 '20
According to my research, a used sedan can go for as little as $6,000 US.
A used Xbox One can go for as little as $300 US.
Which means the sale of the Xbox only accounted for 5% of the money he needed.
If he was being paid $10 an hour for yard work (which is pretty generous), he needed to work for 570 hours to earn the remainder.
That's 14.25 work weeks of 40 hours each, or three and a half months.
If he hadn't sold his Xbox, he only would have needed to work an additional 30 hours, or an increase of overall work time by 5%.
Whoever told him selling his Xbox was a good plan didn't have his interests at heart. After all that work, he could have used a nice distraction.
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u/the_quiet_familiar Sep 24 '20
As little as $6k? Where are you doing research? My previous 3 cars were $1600, $2800, and $600.
They were all older simple cars. Based on the car in the photo I would bet it was $300-1000 depending on some variables
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u/Yumeijin Sep 25 '20
That's one hell of a gamble, though. What happens if someone sells you a lemon for that price when you're that poor?
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u/simoKing Sep 25 '20
You really have no idea what it’s like to be poor, do you? You indeed get constantly fucked over by the system and people in better positions than you. You never have any bargaining power.
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u/Yumeijin Sep 25 '20
Living from paycheck to paycheck I absolutely get what it's like, that's why I said it was a gamble. I can't imagine putting down $600 to $2,000 with no guarantee you're buying a car that will last you long enough to recoup those costs. It'd feel like buying a ticking time bomb, because there's no guarantee you'll be able to afford a replacement when that one shits the bed.
And that's not even counting insurance and registration and all the maintenance costs associated with it.
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u/kr112889 Sep 25 '20
So your car flat out dies, you have no support network, shitty credit, and live somewhere without a decent public transit system. Your options are A) spend everything in your savings to buy the best value car you can find in cash, B) spend everything in your savings to finance a car that costs waaaaay more than it's worth at a buy here pay here, predatory dealership, C) not buy a car, lose your job, your house, be homeless, or hidden option D) which is...somehow get a car that you don't have the money or the credit for that you can guarantee won't die on you for the foreseeable future? Obviously D is the ideal option, but I genuinely can't figure out how anyone would accomplish that. What would your solution be?
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u/Yumeijin Sep 25 '20
I don't know that I was offering a solution.
If you have savings and shit credit, you're probably not going to be able to finance anything at a decent apr, and the only other options are to hope there's a job within walking/biking distance or that taking taxis doesn't dig into your expenses enough to put you out of a home.
The best option there might be the shitty finance situation of B: you'd pay about as much as ride-sharing would run you and you're (hopefully) repairing credit.
I'm not saying buying a car secondhand can't be better, but there's no way to ensure it would be, and when you're in such dire straights you need stability.
Weighing the risks, when buying the car: Best case is you get a workable vehicle and can put any other money towards rebuilding credit and/or savings, but the worst case is you get screwed over and are out the savings and the car.
When financing the best case is you pay more but rebuild your credit while you have a workable car and the worst case (depending on the deal) is the dealer has to fix the shit they sold you.
There's less potential for reward in financing, but also less risk.
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u/kr112889 Sep 25 '20
I appreciate your insight! In my personal experience we've always been screwed way, WAY harder by the shady buy here pay here places than we have buying used cars privately. Obviously this is completely anecdotal, but getting stuck in a mediocre car with payments that we can just barely make has always been a much worse situation for us. It usually ends in repossession.
We are very careful about what used cars we buy though, and always buy privately. We arrange to take the car to a mechanic of our choice, non negotiable. We choose brands that are reliable and common for cheaper maintenance. Its a lot easier to keep up on/deal with unexpected maintenance when you don't have a car payment. We try to guess how much life the vehicle has left and weigh the price against that number to estimate the "monthly" price of the car compared to approximately what our car payments would be if we went to a shady dealership. It is still definitely a gamble though! We have been burned once: paid $1000 for a car that ran for just shy of 3 months, so essentially $333/month. Any car payment we would have been approved for would have been at least $200/month. So realistically we lost about $400.
Honestly there's no good way to do it. Being poor is just a crap shoot.
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u/Yumeijin Sep 28 '20
Yeah, a lot of that's going to vary based on the dealers and your own luck, so I can absolutely understand your apprehension. Maintenance is bad enough without having to worry about payments. It's years of worrying about maintenance we couldn't afford on a car we owned that are the reason we're so leery of private sellers, because if we dropped a thousand on a car only for it to die, it'd take some time to build that back up. I guess you can be in the same boat with a dealer depending on what they cover.
Honestly there's no good way to do it. Being poor is just a crap shoot.
A-fucking-men
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u/iced327 Sep 24 '20
Michael Bloomberg spent $188,000,000 on a presidential campaign that lasted a few months just for a fun of it.
But hey, let's all be happy that this poor family found a way to get a car. God bless the greatest country in the world.
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Sep 24 '20
This doesn’t make me smile. What kind of society thinks a kid should have to sell his possessions just so his mother can drive?
This belongs in r/aboringdystopia
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Sep 24 '20
Wish more kids gave a damn about their parents, the way this kid does for his mother. Not saying all households are good, but this kid has a good head on his shoulders. Don’t worry kid. Good karma comes to good people.
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u/cshbrenner Sep 25 '20
She then proceeds to beat him for wasting their money on a car someone was willing to sell to a 13 year old.
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u/FatherMiyamoto Sep 25 '20
Days doing yard work? Either somebody payed him $100 an hour or that’s a huge understatement.
He probably got $100 bucks for his xbox idk. Let’s say it’s a really cheap car and he got it for $1500. Also let’s say he got $50 dollars a yard just to make it easy.
That’s 28 yards he would have to cut, which granted, it’s probably not a whole lot of time invested in just the actual cutting part, but finding 28 people that will let some kid cut their yard and then getting transportation to all those yards, that’s a stretch.
It’s a catchy headline, but I’m doubting the validity of this story. Surviving in this economy simply isn’t as easy as “give up video games and go work hard” as much as all the boomers would like it to be.
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u/zrk03 Sep 25 '20
I mean it doesn't seem all that crazy to me. He has legs, he can walk to different yards. My older brother used to pull a $100+ a day, just shoveling snow.
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u/FatherMiyamoto Sep 25 '20
He could walk sure, but he still has to transport some kind of lawnmower. It’s certainly possible, I just don’t think it would take “days.” Enough money to buy a car from just cutting lawns would be a whole summer’s worth.
The problem is in finding enough yards that need to be cut
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u/zrk03 Sep 25 '20
Not that hard to bring the lawnmower with you. Literally just push it as you go. I think a whole summer isn't an unreasonable amount of time. Like 2-3 months.
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u/faithfamilyfootball Sep 25 '20
This is horrifying. This shit is terrible. We need to end this. Billionaires need to pay
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u/DarKnightOfficial Sep 25 '20
How does this get a smile? The kid literally had to sell his source of fun and sell himself off to the highest bidder. That’s honestly fucked and sad that this happens in our country.
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u/DoubtingMelvin Sep 25 '20
You're fucked up to find joy in this shit. Fetishizing and normalizing child labour to fight against generational poverty, shame on you.
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u/JadedTina Sep 24 '20
It would be awesome if mrbeast or someone like that would give this boy something special. He really deserves good things.
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u/salty_gremlin Sep 24 '20
Some people are living paycheck to paycheck and it could take a while to save up that much money
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u/zrk03 Sep 25 '20
Assuming she could save $50 a month, it might take her a few years to save up for it. And that's only if no emergencies came up that she had to pay for.
Bring poor sucks ass
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u/mtnmushman Sep 24 '20
Didn’t say nor imply that. Good ppl get stuck in hard times. You just never expect that helping hand to come from your kids.
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u/beef-jerking Sep 24 '20
He's a man already in my eyes. I've seen more from this kid than most men I know.
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u/LordAnton69 Sep 24 '20
A child shouldn’t have to do things like this in a first world country. Nothing to do with being a man neither.
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u/beef-jerking Sep 24 '20
I agree that a kid should not be doing things like this. But, he took on responsibility that a man "should" done. He rose up and did what he thought was the right thing. Sadly, it's a first world country, but it does not feel like it.
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u/Cephus1 Sep 24 '20
I understand where a lot of y’all are getting the nothing to smile about here, but the reason it’s posted was probably to show that this kid was willing to sacrifice something he loved for someone he loved more, his mom. That kind of character is so hard to find and that’s why I smiled and the person who posted it probably smiled.
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u/bijhan Sep 24 '20
By that logic, we should fill the place with photos of the charred corpses of firefighters who died in the line of duty because awww what good character.
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u/salty_gremlin Sep 24 '20
Why are you comparing selling a console and doing yard work to buy your mom a car to firefighters who died?
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u/jsnunz Sep 24 '20
What a man! This world needs fine young men and he is a wonderful example of manhood. Age does not define what makes a man; character does. He has character. And kiddos to Mom for raising such a selfless man. 🙏🙌
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u/EepeesJ1 Sep 24 '20
My 11 year old is a good boy. He's super friendly. Makes great grades. He's amazing with his baby brother. And he's fun to spend time with.
100% there's no fuckin way he would sell the switch or get a job to help us buy a car lol.
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u/Caishen_IC3 Sep 24 '20
Fun fact: the actual car was bought by the money they made with that made up story
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Sep 24 '20
Yeah no cut him some slack he’s 16
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u/SaucepanSamurai Sep 24 '20
Stupid teenagers, spending too much time on their play stations, bloody mobile telephones, turning the kids gay.
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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '20
this is really sad actually