I'm curious if the repeated bailouts will cause an adverse selection effect - the people getting bailed out gradually become the last dollar users.
If they only have 5 minutes of homework tonight, then that should be OK.
Experience demonstrates that there may be a slavery of wages only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other.
— Frederick Douglass
I'm kinda similar. I think it helps because you need to show people what a greener world would actually look like. The train is less intimidating if a coworker can answer all your questions.
We can get rid of all the data centers and everyday life would be pretty much the same. With cars it's another story, and the average person has less imagination than you're imagining.
Got off easy
That's what junior engineers are for. I'm mentoring!
"If this was in my country, I'd be goddamn John Wick right now!"
Share holders
Abolish the corporate veil
Yeah but neither of those sides are in favor of the regulatory capture monopoly that liberals always think is a good idea.
The fact that modern cars are backseat drivers but not competent drivers is why I don't own a car anymore. Don't get me wrong, I used signals, but it's a million little nitpicks that add up. They're features for other people, not the user, that I'm only buying because I have no real choice. Heaven forbid any actual legal enforcement of those rules by people - it must be done by making products more annoying.
Cars (and humans) can either drive for me or STFU about my driving.
Someone else brought that up, it's currently losing to
"The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."
— Vladimir Ilich Lenin
