What is "socialism"? - An attempt to clear up myths/misconceptions

[VGPolyglot]

DonFerrari said:

VGPolyglot said:

I'm giving you mass statistics while you're just giving anecdotal answers. Now, as to why people don't buy $500 cars, maybe it's because there aren't $500 cars for people to buy?

https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/auto-industry/used-car-prices-reached-all-time-high-in-2016.html

And again with your survivorship bias. Here's a good picture for you:

Some hard number that wasn't hard to find https://www.ebay.com/itm/2004-Saturn-Vue/323034555322?hash=item4b365c23ba:g:GCoAAOSws0JaZh5C&vxp=mtr

You call it survivor Bias, I call it depending on oneself instead of others. Lottery is random, effort isn't. But you may keep your world view if you so much prefer, while I'll keep looking at people that prefer short term gratification and when you look deeper have very expensive luxury but doesn't cover their basics because they will wait the government to do it.

Yeah, I could also show examples on Pornhub of a guy having sex with 20 girls, that doesn't mean that everyone will be able to re-create that scenario. There are only a finite number of cars, if $19,000 is the average then the number of $500 cars would be very small in proportion to the number of cars out there. And capitalism requires reliance on others, the owners extract the surplus from the labour of their worker.