Grocery line girl - no this is not funny

Overheard at the grocery line:

"Sabi nya sa kin, baka hindi na maganda mag-nursing dahil andami ng nurse. Mag-accounting na lang daw ako. Eh bakit ako makikinig sa kanya eh wala nga syang kotse."
(He told me it may not be a good idea to take up nursing since there are already a lot of nurses. He said I should take up accounting. Why would I listen to him when he doesn't even have a car?)

This was said by a girl to a couple of her friends. I find a lot of things wrong with this statement I don't know where to start. I will muddle on though:

• I pity that poor guy who doesn't have a car. I wonder if he knows that this girl he was kind enough to give advice to (I don't know if this was solicited or not, but still, right?) has made a value judgment (what does this mean?) based on the fact that he does not have a car.
• Isn't it a tragedy that good advice is taken based on whether a person has a car? Okay maybe I'm jumping to a poor generalization based on the few statements (and tone) of grocery line girl, but let's face it, in today's world, worth (in the abstract sense) does seem to be measured in terms of visible wealth.
• For that matter, is owning a car a good measure of whether advice is sound or not?
• Is owning a car a measure of a person's success? I mean, sure, owning a car is a quantifiable and tangible evidence of economic success but it certainly isn't THE measure of success. Or am I missing something again?
• I mean I consider myself successful -- I have a career I enjoy. I earn. I have free time. I have spending money. Granted I don't have a car of my own (when I do drive, I drive my parents' car okay), I don't have a house. But I feel pretty successful. Unfortunately, by grocery line girl's standard, I'm probably not someone you should take advice from.
• Consider this, a guy who drives a car bought by his parents, barely graduated from college, if at all and has no job -- what would he be? Good enough for advice, grocery line girl?

Maybe, I'm taking this out of context but it's kinda hard.

Anyway, I've always wanted to use this line though I've forgotten where I got it from:

"It's a tragic commentary on our times."

Grocery line girl, I wish you the best of luck.