Friday, March 30, 2012

Smart phones have replaced cars as status symbols; Fox News

Fox has a take-your-breath-away expose on their website about how young people who are web savvy are less interested in driving.

Seems that kids who are spending all their free time texting their friends are less interested in owning and driving cars than kids who aren't as internet-addicted.

The think tank here at Falling Downs has a simple explanation.

Young people today can't afford cars.

The minimum wage jobs that have traditionally been the mainstay of teen employment don't pay enough to permit car ownership anymore. Time was that a typical teen who worked a minimum wage job at Mickey D's or Safeway could afford a ten year old Ford or Chevy or Toyota. They'd spruce it up with a few custom parts and celebrate the freedom that a set of wheels provided.

It's got nothing to do with being internet savvy.

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