His tire pressure was clearly off.

I was gonna write “inb4 all the ignorant and racist bullshit” but there’s already a “fuck off” comment, so I guess I’m too late.

I worked a job which the executive board tanked the company and I lost my house, car, and savings. So what mistake did I make? Or when my wife was DX’d with an autoimmune disease which basically meant that all extra savings went to medical bills. Where is the mistake? Or my daughter’s arthritis, autism, epilepsy?…

That’s a huge generalization and oversimplification in the first place, but there’s a great book that addresses your point. It’s a really eye-opening read: Scarcity: why having too little means so much. It discusses decision-making (and other behaviors) when you have limited resources (both time and money). Side note:…

If it’s up to the engineers, we want to know why we even need that meatbag in the cockpit anyway. We can make the car drive itself better than he can, and get tons of weight savings from lower safety requirements, and much better aero without that stupid hole in the middle of the car.

I think it’s even simpler.

I think there's a element of relatively stagnant incomes while average auto transaction prices have steadily increased. The only way to prop that up is finding a way to keep the payments the same, by way of longer term loans primarily. Which is fine if your finance a Tacoma for 7 years. It will still be worth 95% of…

You picked a fine time to leave me...loose wheel!