A year from now, when the campaign season starts really ramping up, the compiled punch-list of terrible decisions and backfires will be scrolling on our TV screens and I think a lot of people will be truly surprised how long it is. How, when you put it all together in one place, it’s even longer than anyone thought.…

The ultimate goal here is to make it 1950 again, so “reasoning” doesn’t really come into it. Just like when you tell people that if American manufacturing suddenly returned, it’d largely be automated and you’d have like three people running the spatula factory instead of the entire town.

That’s assuming the money just isn’t there to pay. Which simply isn’t true. Wealth has been increasing, but is disproportionately concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. Workers have seen vanishingly few of these gains; despite being more productive than ever we’re paid less than our parents were for the same or…

Your ideas about “the market” are undermined by the article you’re talking about.

No, there needs to be a salary cap, like in sports, and the minimum wage federally should be a living wage. This shouldn’t be something I should have to explain to, or tell you.

Sounds fun for you but I wouldn't invest in a business whose plan is "Let's have people work for free because it's fun!"

It also happens to be true.

It wasn’t bullshit a generation ago.

Why the fuck shouldn’t every occupation provide a living wage? If you’re working 40 hours a week you deserve to be paid to live. Otherwise we’re asking people to literally work themselves to death. That’s an absurd conclusion.

<While ultimately a shrewd business plan rather than the borderline charitable act it was taught as in my Michigan high school, Henry Ford’s decision to make the Model T affordable, and to pay his workers enough to afford one>

Note the clean lines on this baby compared to the Honda Civic.

It’s the tickle down effect of Honda and Acura making boring ugly cars for so long. It takes a few years for it to show in the market as far as sales numbers and profits, so even though they are starting to make strides again, it will be another few years before anyone really catches on and it shows in their bottom…

The Porsche fire didn’t seem like it was urgent enough to warrant fan intervention, as per folks who were watching the practice session

1st Gear :

The reverse is that people will pass, change lanes back in front of you, and then slow down to less than what you were doing while they were passing you. Go figure.

Speeding is also breaking the law.

Yeah, for example you look at the specs and the company’s record of reliability and you say, “Wow, I’d like one of these new Honda Civics! If only I were blind.”

boring sedans ignore trying to make the whole thing nice looking and instead spend all of the time designing a predator style overwrought grill and headlights. Car shopping has become picking which front end looks least ugly.