At a time when Americans increasingly want pricey SUVs and trucks rather than small cars, the Mirage remains the lone new vehicle whose average sale price is under 20 grand — a figure that once marked a kind of unofficial threshold of affordability. With prices — new and used — having soared since the pandemic, $20,000 is no longer much of a starting point for a new car.

This current version of the Mirage, which reached U.S. dealerships a decade ago, sold for an average of $19,205 last month, according to data from Cox Automotive. (Though a few other new models have starting prices under $20,000, their actual purchase prices, with options and shipping, exceed that figure.)

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    But minimum wage -> minimum effort, right? I have no problem with no effort => no reward.

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      I’m making way more money as an EE than when I was a teen making minimum wage at a factory. That shit is grueling and far from no effort

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        Clearly you’ve put effort into becoming an EE. Clearly it has paid back. I don’t see why you’re arguing.

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          I don’t see why I wouldn’t want my fellow man who is struggling in the system to do better just because I went into huge debt to be an EE

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            Nobody wants your fellow man struggling in the system whether you went into debt or not. Some fellow men, however, are blood sucking assholes living off others’ effort.

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      I’ve worked minimum wage jobs and jobs that pay far more, and I definitely wasn’t working harder at the high paying ones