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Good for Australia and New Zeeland. But the ones that had dropped the deposit on a cyber truck can they really be allowed to handle their own economy?

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People are and should be allowed to make bad financial choices, provided that they take on all of the consequences from it themselves, and not expect to be bailed out.

Farmers?

What about them?

They take on bushels of potentially generational debt to afford horribly overpriced and locked-in John Deere farming equipment to farm food when food can just be bought at the grocery store!

> generational debt

I don't know about other countries, but in the U.S., debt is not inherited.

> farm food when food can just be bought at the grocery store!

If your comment was supposed to be a joke, it fell flat.

If it falls flat, it's not a joke, it's an anthropology experiment.

Impossible to tell if sarcasm or not

The deposit was only $150 Austrailian

which is just one good burger and beer in big city there, so not even worth attention

Not sure what sort of burgers and beer you buy, but $150 generally goes just a _little_ bit further than that in my experience...

Five burgers ($15 each) and seven beers ($10 each)

standard Big Night Out, really

good barometer for "interested" but not a serious committal

Not really. Trucks are popular here and CT is one of the best vehicles on the market. Combined with its safety, efficiency, FSD, etc - it's really no brainer vehicle if you into that size.

Showing big fat middle finger to EDS sufferers is of course a cherry on a cake.

Trouble is - still quite expensive, especially for our market all while we have a little bit of Chinese competition coming up (I think only 1 decent EV ute so far).

I don’t know, selecting a vehicle by the degree to which it offends those who aren’t in the thrall of Mr. Musk sounds far closer to a form of syndromal derangement than the what you are postulating.

Reading comprehension bad?

That's cherry on top, not the main criteria.

CT is literally the worst truck on the market. Less cargo space than a Maverick and less offroad capability than a Corolla. Rusts and dents easily. Oh...and it's also a death trap for anyone inside after a collision.

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