Most people reading this are probably very familiar with buying things between $0-1000 USD (such as everyday food and everyday clothing, perhaps weekly rent). Some of us will have experience buying more expensive items, like a car ($10,000s), or maybe even a house ($100,000s or even $1,000,000s). Some of you might want to object to those numbers I listed, they obviously will vary wildly in different markets, but I want to now ask about much more expensive things.

What is the cost of some items that few-if-any Lemmy users can afford? What can the absurdly rich buy that we can’t? How much does it cost them?

You must give a money value with some evidence, no just knee-jerking and saying something vague like “elections” - instead find articles disclosing how much manipulation campaigns cost a political party.

  • rmrf@lemmy.ml
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    2 hours ago

    A 2 liter sleeved and build b18 and a built trans will run 8s without meaningful issues pretty much forever, as long as you don’t launch at 10k rpm every single time. Mine is on it’s 6th season and 30k street miles, albeit on low boost (tuned for 1090whp, but I track it at 840 and street it on 600) and the closest thing it’s had to a rebuild is a head gasket and timing belt replacement because 4 hours is a small price to pay to protect a 6k motor. That and frequent motor oil and trans fluid changes, of course.

    I take no problem with telling how much building a really nice car could cost, but you made it sound like 110k is the minimum cost and all I’m saying is not really. That, and the notion that high HP Hondas necessarily can’t hang with the power output are verifiably false

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      My friend, this isn’t about how to build a car, and I don’t know why you’re trying to force it. This is about spending money if you have it and want to spend it on something relatively unknown. It’s what OP asked for. Not a lesson on building an 8 second track car.