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Nobody "deserves" or should "expect" a lifestyle. Life is simply a series of choices. If you choose to have a $40,000 car on 100K income, then you choose to take money from your stocks because you choose a lifestyle over substance.

I make more than 100k, and I have never bought a car for more than $14,000... why? Because I choose my family over my lifestyle.

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And no one deserves customers. What silicon valley is doing is destroying the consumers that would be buying its products.

The guy doesn't work at Tesla, but if the average employee in Tesla can't afford their standard model and have enough money left over to live they are not a viable company, as Henry Ford figured out more than a century ago.

It's capitalism 101, you cut labour costs only to find that you've cut demand as well.

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