• Gabe Bell@lemmy.worldOP
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    8 months ago

    What if you need a car to get to job interviews? If you don’t get the brand new car, you can’t get to job interviews, so you lose the unemployment benefit because the government feels you don’t deserve it?

    Or you need the car to get to the job because the public transport is so shit and unreliable that the car is the only way to get there without fail and if you rely on public transport then you risk getting fired if you are late again?

    Sometimes people have reasons that might not be obvious but are there because of the system.

      • Gabe Bell@lemmy.worldOP
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        8 months ago

        I was using “brand new” as in they buy a new car to replace the car they have. Not necessarily a shiny new, newest model up to date state of the art car, but a they replace the car they have with a new car.

        Believe it or not there are people who would say “How can you say you are poor – you just bought a new car?” then tell The Daily Mail that illegal immigrants are using tax-payers money to buy new cars.

      • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldM
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        8 months ago

        A new car is not that much more in a lot of places than a used car, especially right now. Plus, you can earn supplementary income with a new car that you might not be able to in an old car. In some markets you can’t drive uber without a very new car.

        This is why the advice is basically not to judge so much, especially considering billionaires are literally making record profits off of food and medicine right now.