It really baffles me when an American can just walk into a store and buy car parts for their fairly niche model from the 1990s.

Meanwhile in Europe I spend many evening on internet forums and Facebook groups doing research trying to find a part that will work with my car, then finding someone willing to sell it and finally using Google Translate getting someone to ship it to my foreign (to them) country. I even had to resort to proxies just to get car parts from Eastern to Western Europe.

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shimman 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Weird, I rather have more government mandated vacation, public healthcare, and a pension system that doesn't mean I have to work in my 60s but I understand people have different priorities in life. Hopefully you move beyond the consumerist phase as it's probably the lowest rung of the human experience.

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TaLiTr an hour ago | parent | next [-]

What a strange and pretentious comment.

They're not mutually exclusive, two things can be had at the same time.

	▲	shimman 44 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Not only are they mutually exclusive, the current neoliberal regime has dismantling the welfare state as its explicit goal. Wish to live in your reality tho, where I can buy a dozen different brands of hot dogs while visiting the doctor for elevated blood pressure without needing to take out a payment plan on klarna.

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retired 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Jokes on you, in my part of Europe I don’t have access to public healthcare, I don’t have mandated vacation, I don’t have a pension system. And I can’t even have a consumerist phase apparently since car parts are so hard to acquire.