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0 pointsdylan6044y ago0 comments

>You want to waste money? Hire a car, with a driver, when you need it.

> Want to save money. Learn to drive.

Oh please. As if learning to drive is the end of expenses. If you finance a car, you have monthly payments. If you don't, then you have periodic recurring maintenance bills. You always have fuel charges. You always have insurance charges. You periodically have parking charges.

I know how to drive, but do not own a car. From time to time, I hire a car, but it no where gets close to costing me the amount of owning a car would.

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neffy4y ago

This is probably true in the states where it is insanely cheap to rent cars, but not necessarily everywhere. And even there...

... I run a junker. That is to say a car that will go the dump as soon as it requires any significant expenditure, and the combination saving of not having to finance it, and most years minimal or no repairs, and only needing third party insurance makes it significantly cheaper than renting.

jatone4y ago

depends on how frequently you need a car. I drive maybe 3 times a year. that's ~2k in gas/rent fees. that's less than insurance assuming each rental is for a week. never mind the cost of actually buying the car.

in practice I spend maybe 1k every year for cars. primarily for vacation. which owning a car wouldn't absolve me from spending.

minusf4y ago

very well put, i also rent cars because i rarely need them.

but i think where this analogy breaks down is that if i run a service, no matter how many users, peaky or not, at least 1 server always needs to be on, not "from time to time".

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