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I have a hard time reconciling the fact that we have nearly half the country living paycheque to paycheque, with half also reporting that "rising prices are greatly impacting their ability to meet day-to-day expenses".
Yet enough people are buying vehicles they absolutely don't need in numbers great enough to impact our economy.
Can someone explain what's going on?
Are people struggling because they are mismanaging their finances, or are people “struggling” because they didn't buy that F150 to drive their kid to school in?
There's two ends of the spectrum. The bottom twenty percent who are screwed; the middle sixty who saw their effective income decrease enough that it hurts, but they still have some buying power; and the top twenty who can afford investments.
I'd guess that folks at the top end are buying vehicles for fun, while the majority of us are buying vehicles to get to work.
"The top 20 per cent of Canadians hold more than two-thirds of the country's wealth"
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-highest-level-income-inequality-recorded-1.7349077
That begs the question: What are multimillionaires doing with "trucks and vans"???
I'd imagine raising families, since they can afford it.
That doesn't seem to be the case.
There have been numerous global studies showing an inverse relationship between income and fertility rates. Higher income usually equals lower fertility. And we even see this pattern when comparing developed (rich) countries to underdeveloped (poor) countries... the same can be said for education, with higher education typically meaning lower fertility rates.
Granted, these studies tend to cap the high-end of the income spectrum to around $100,000, which is near poverty in 2024, but I'd be interested in knowing if millionaires are actually having so many kids that they need to justify a ~~sports car~~ van.