The trouble is that it’s a negative sum game. More stupid trucks more dead pedestrians. It’s the embodiment of the stupidly selfish American ethos. We have turned our streets into a me first arms race.

Anecdotally speaking all the Tesla owners I know are full on Elon cult members. They have been culting no matter what he was pimping. They culted along with his liberal views and kept on culting as he went right wing.

We are well over 200" here.

83% of Americans live in urban environments. If you are out in the country, your observations are of a minority of Americans. I live in a rural area as well, and anecdotally speaking most trucks here have clean beds. Most of us aren’t farming or ranching. I work in IT and my two closest neighbors are lawyers. …

“no you dont. The US is larger than Austrailia.”

Most trucks are far more often hauling one person with an empty bed than they are hauling anything heavy or large.

”So this narrative that debt accumulation that started in the 1960s is somehow screwing over future generations just doesn’t hold up.”

None of your unsupported examples are complex enough to escape understanding. You have avoided rebutting anything I have supported with data. Hopefully you eventually use your intellectual horsepower to pursue truth rather than cling to bias.

1. Comparing non autonomous systems to autonomous systems does not work from a technical standpoint. Autonomy means that cat is truly out of the bag. Non autonomous systems by definition fall under some degree of human control, the difference is more than significant. It’s not an analogy that holds water. Pre AI…

Definitely not being intentionally disingenuous. The difference between the household and the government is a matter of scale and interest rate. The US has gotten away with being fiscally irresponsible in part because of population growth and increased income from that growth and in part because their borrowing…

The United states ranks 27th in social mobility.

If you view running up credit card bills and leaving them for your kids “great” then have at it. Yes putting the economy on a credit card has been quite effective in creating artificial wealth. But servicing the interest on the debt becomes increasingly burdensome with a cost of 475 billion in 2022. This is over 40%…

Who was the driving force of globalization and who is the primary beneficiary of the policies that drove the phenomena? Who were the original titans of the information age and what generation did they belong to?

If you look at national debt for instance...Historically generations did not place their burdens on generations that followed until the mid 70's. This is when voters started to decide they would bury future generations in debt interest service so they could fulfill their desires while contributing as little as…

Up to a point it does. But if you follow the politics of boomers you will notice a trend of incredibly selfish approaches to social policy. Boomers were quite liberal when it served them and pell grants were readily available when they were going to college and avoiding the draft. As they aged from hippy’s to…

Trust me, you do not want ten of that car.  It was a huge pile of shit.  I was able to keep it going for very little money, but nothing worked other than the bare essentials and I had to dress like I was going to climb Everest to drive it in the winter.

You can get a running car for 5k. You can deal with all of its problems for a few years for way less outlay than even your fancy 80k Civic. You just have to be patient and industrious. Keep your money whenever possible. Debt is the enemy of your future. It removes choice and limits opportunities. It’s hard and…

I just found several running civics within a few miles of my house for 4k. They are rough but you could drop another 1k into them and make them decent. All were well under 200k miles and I am sure most of them will get you through several years while you save money and plan for your future.

They are going to give it to their kids...Who are my age. The X generation will look a lot better and the Millennials and Zoomers will still be fighting for scraps.

Google “anecdotal evidence” then google “social mobility”