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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Almost everyone I know at my high school  was given a car by their parents when they got their drivers license. This is the norm among upper middle class and above households. These parents want their kids to focus on grades in school and don’t want a minimum wage job (during the school year) to jeopardize their chances of getting into a good college.[/quote]

What era was this?  Also I am missing the connection between getting a car and taking a minimum wage job.

The difference nowadays is many kids have no interest in driving and a fair number don’t get a license in HS.  This is especially true in wealthy, close in parts of the DMV (Bethesda as example) where kids prefer to Uber vs drive themselves.

Whereas 30 years ago at a HS like my kid probably 90% of kids would get a license at 17…now it’s less than 50%.[/quote]

This was relatively recent. After 2010 in an affluent suburban town. [/quote]

2024 is very different…Uber was only launched in 2008 and barely anywhere in 2010.

Kids love to Uber.  Few would try to buy a car on their own if a parent wouldn’t buy one…they will just Uber.[/quote]

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