Two rivians in the wild at the same place
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"Why do I have three kids and no money? Why can't I have no kids and three money?" -- Homer Simpson
I gave up pretending what life would look like without kids a long time ago. First because I can't imagine it, emotionally. Second, I refuse to envision it, financially.
Just saving kings and pregnant women from random floods and broken houses.
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@Cash-Rewards said in Two rivians in the wild at the same place:
@ash78 I was thinking exactly that. Like, I'm paying to do something the owner would otherwise pay someone else to do. That is a brilliant business model. "Rather than paying workers, what if workers paid me?"
See also: Self-serve frozen yogurt places.
And they have the gall to ask for a tip!
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@ash78 said in Two rivians in the wild at the same place:
First because I can't imagine it, emotionally. Second, I refuse to envision it, financially.
Yup, that sums it up exactly
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@Cash-Rewards I've already seen 3 different R1S around. I see R1T's at least every day.
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@Cash-Rewards they are apparently working on a smaller cheaper truck. I think the R1T is awesome but the price is a lot!
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@ash78 -- Yeah... I've been at a place for a while now where I feel I have enough things of enough quality, and would rather use money to see the kids off to a better start in their own lives than get more or better things.
Especially the really expensive ones -- a Rivian would be great, but for that kind of money I could get a his'n'hers two-pack of things that fulfill its function.
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@ash78 -- U-pick produce probably doesn't make much financial sense for the customer, but there's some atavistic attraction to the experience and ambience (similarly with home gardening for people who do that). I was just reading some thoughts about the appeal of seed catalogues, which digressed into the usefulness of old ones for certain kinds of historical research. It contained this observation: "In 1900, nearly two in five Americans lived on farms and three in five lived in the country. Most people knew how to grow things."
The US is now over 80% urbanized (admittedly, looking closely at the relevant definition of "urban" shows that it has been changed on several occasions and includes lots and lots of places that don't exactly have a skyscraper district) and trending more and more in that direction, as is the world in general.
Picking one's own berries or whatever is as close as a lot of people find it practical to get to "this is what a farm is like, and where food comes from," and even that can be satisfying.
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@Ad-absurdum-per-aspera farming cosplay
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@Ad-absurdum-per-aspera Yep, I can totally see that. And AFAIK, "urban" in today's census just means "living in an incorporated place of 2,500+ people" whichalso means a lot of small towns. It's really just a basic measure of access to public utilities, groceries etc. But it still shows up a lot in politically charged pieces about how hardly anyone is "rural" anymore...but that's a far cry from living in a huge MSA.
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@Cash-Rewards The answer is simple: Don't buy an electric pickup. Buy a tractor
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@Krusty-Walnut Some used ones are even selling for more than new ones to avoid the wait of ordering one.
"Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers" -Colin McRae
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@Plymouth-Superbird-2nd Yeah. People have too much money and no patience. I ordered mine (R1S) in October of 2021. Hopefully I'll get mine this fall. But I will say that the market is softening on them. There are a lot more used cars and now it takes less than a year to get a R1T from when you order it. The R1S still has a big waiting list.
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@DuckDuckGreyDuck There are like 5 o so lightnings I see by me in Ham Lake but no Rivians. I've seen a few more south though.
