haha,

unnafordable education is funny

haha,

fuck them kids

That car starts at $110,000 USD, about the same as in-state cost of attendance in Michigan where the mustang is made and Nevada where Shelby is based

This ad seems aimed at people who think you can still "work your way through college" without debt.

It can be both at the same time. They aren't mutually exclusive.

On the part of the company as well.

If your customer's kids go to college, they'll grow up to earn more money that they can spend on pointless expensive cars in the future.

But we need to chop down that tree for firewood. Not because they're cold, but because they like a nice pile of firewood.

On the contrary, this speaks directly to their target audience

Corvette is mid-life crisis, Mustang is what enlisted military get

Wiggles fingers over math textbook

"I CAST... SPORTS CAR!!!"

Points ruler at the PA system

Tate Mcrae plays over the PA

If that sports car were an MX5 Miata or a BRZ/86, it would be a massive improvement if you could get a degree even from a state university for that price!!

Yeah I think something that people who didn't grow up upper middle class in the US don't realize is that a good chunk of the kids who grew up upper middle class in the US have this weird relationship with their parents where their parents refused to accept them into their economic class, or at least refused to acknowledge their children are entering a completely different life experience and economic class than they did.

I think it stems from a sense that their quality of life as people living the american dream enshittified over their entire lifetime and now the only way out of it is to admit they have built a way of seeing the world that is utterly blind to the most critical things and they simply refuse to do that, full stop.

(I don't mean this is as "feel bad for us upper middle class kids" at all, no pity needed... I am simply pointing out how fucking weird it is, how hollow the whole american experience is even sometimes for the children of successful parents, it emphasises how the US pysche really is a pathology.)

There will never be a generation of humans that will do more damage to Earth and the future lives of human beings than upper-middle class boomers, it simply won't be possible without the extinction of humanity. If any future generation does it will lead to the extinction of the human species, and if any generation before us betrayed the human species as deeply we simply wouldn't be here to talk about it as we would already be extinct.

I know focusing on it as a generational thing isn't helpful in a lot of ways, I recognize that and I don't blindly hate boomers or anything, I love talking to people older than me they often have so much wisdom to learn (and often have transmuted that wisdom into a killer humor too) I just wish there were more of those older people and less of the older people that I have learned I have to actively not listen to because their advice/help is so unhelpful it is worse than nothing by a margin as wide as climate change is dire.

Sure he didn't want to help his children with college, but strangers are going to notice him more due to the car he's driving and you can't put a price on that.

Someone who looked around and saw a much larger demographic of "fuck you, I got mine"-ers who resent their responsibilities.