Solid candidate for best comment of the day.

I didn’t suggest they invest in the market. I asked why you suggested they cannot.

Fair enough. In my defense of the misunderstanding, you didn't clarify either party's business structure. We could go back and forth about various scenarios, but I agree with your view. 

That guy on the side of the road in Mission Viejo wished this happened to him a few days ago.

More regulations have never been the solution, but often serve to further complicate the problem.

There's really no room in 2019 for personal responsibility. 

The car buyer might hold the physical piece of paper, but I'd imagine there is a box on the back marked "lien holder." The car can technically be sold but cannot be reregistered without taking care of the lien holder first.

The Mercedes dealership isn't my first choice when looking to save a few bucks because money's tight.

I tried that same argument once while crossing the border with a few pounds of heroin. It's a pretty solid argument; not sure why the border patrol agent was so quick to put me in cuffs.

COTD. 

“Perhaps it shouldn’t be so easy for a company to be able to track—and punish—its customers with little oversight from any other party.”

What made them think he was under the influence of drugs?

He doesn't have enough space in his gaming room for a full setup like that, plus this lets him play other (non-driving) games. 

Right, because the scales were still heavily tipped in our favor. That has since changed. 

The plumber and the executive are doing the exact same thing in your example; they're just operating on different levels.

The price of labor is set by those who sell said labor, not the other way around. You also seem to think that working class people aren't allowed to invest in the stock market. I never got that particular memo.

What could possibly go wrong?

It's up to you, the consumer, to choose a company that pays dividends if you want to benefit from them. 

Moving production offshore was unheard of after WWII because the rest of the world was pretty much devastated by air assaults. We had a fairly decent competitive advantage.

Excellent analogy.