Originally Posted by
Mobile 155
And what do the cousins in cars get? A place for the coffee they got at the drive through. A sound system almost as good as the one at home. And yes at a cost. But a cost most have already budgeted for.
If they budget for it, they also budget to be in debt. That means they are budgeting money they don't have (yet) and banking on making more money to pay that debt. That puts everyone under pressure to squeeze money out of others to pay off debts, which makes for bad social-economic relations.
If people actually limited themselves to what they could afford
without going into debt, they would be free to negotiate work and business opportunities without subtle pressure and desperation that puts everyone involved at a higher level of drama/aggression.
Transit and other LCF transportation options provide the opportunity to live debt-free, or at least more debt-lite.