- If it was common to make references like that in Germany to Jewish institutions, groups, or tribes, ambiguously "honoring" them, would that be a bad thing? Would it be gloating over victimizing them, or commemorating their bravery?
- Given that (my impression is) they don't, what does the cultural difference really signify? Are Germans entitled to feel superior for it?
Like, I can imagine a world where there were sports teams called the "Maccabees" or the "Ghetto Fighters". I think that German cars do make reference to groups in ways that surely someone could find offensive, like the VW Touareg. Is this better/worse/as bad as using "Cherokee" as a name?
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A 2020 yaris starts at 15,650. With fees, should be around that mark.
The problem is, the median US household does not buy a Yaris. They spend more like double that. So 30-40k PER car, two cars per household.
And it seems obviously extravagant to me for a middle class family to have two new cars. One maybe, but two? But even so, by the formula, the family can afford two $30K cars.
Such a family would not want to spend more than 49K total on their cars. so that is 1 car for 49K or 2 for 24K
and that IMO should be the extreme absolute limit
You know, economists tell us that your automobile should not cost more than half of your annual income. So if you make an income of five thousand dollars, your car shouldn't cost more than about twenty-five hundred. That's just good economics. And if it's a family of two, and both members of the family make ten thousand dollars, they would have to make out with one car. That would be good economics, although it's often inconvenient. But so often, haven't you seen people making five thousand dollars a year and driving a car that costs six thousand? And they wonder why their ends never meet. [laughter] That's a fact.
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