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Truck purchases are driving up the average cost of car payments. Some buyers pay over $1,000 a month (www.nbcnews.com)
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More than 1 in 4 car shoppers in Texas and Wyoming have committed to paying more than $1,000 a month, and experts say it is due to the high volume of large truck purchases in those states, according to a report by auto site Edmunds.

More than 1 in 5 shoppers in seven other states — Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota and Utah — are also forking over more than $1,000 for their vehicles each month.

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[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t really see how signing up to make payments on an expensive vehicle equates to slavery

[–] Entropywins@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I believe they are using a literary device called hyperbole to illustrate the wage-slave relationship to consumerism in modern socioeconomics.

[–] ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

As they ignored reality https://www.motorbiscuit.com/ford-f-150-most-popular-car-rich-americans-making-200k-dollars/

Hyperbole and literary devices aren't really helpful or clever when you ignore that the owners are quite wealthy.

[–] JasSmith@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Hyperbole is taking an example and making it more extreme. Voluntarily trading one’s labour for money is the opposite of slavery. It just appears they don’t understand what slavery is.