Wage growth (and disparity) is a definitely problem, but people buying stuff they can’t afford is the larger problem (and lenders facilitating bad choices).

Cars keep getting more expensive, the amount of money/loan payments are going to keep getting more expensive.

What Amazon was really trying to do with HQ2 was see if they could bring the economic-desperation-level employment reality to a major, thriving American city. It’s one thing to build factories and distribution centers that work people like dogs in bumfuck towns and fourth-tier cities. Amazon wanted to see if it was…

You can try as hard as you want to make every next #MeToo micro-scandal happen, but literally five people on Twitter care about whether Ryan Adams is a creep. This is such a non-story.

Well, and across the entire urban economy—but in tech particularly—nobody is staying put anymore. You put in 2-3 years somewhere, and it’s off to the next opportunity (aka pay raise). Because there’s little economic stability, you’re not going to find anyone looking to make a commitment. Not in their 20s to mid-30s…

No one cares about micro-outrages anymore. Sorry.

Being a C-level executive is the most hilarious grift of all time. You get all the credit if the company does great. And then, if the company fails to meet expectations, somehow the CEO detecting this, admitting it, and “making adjustments” (by firing other people) becomes the measure of his success in the role. The…

Also, girls bully the absolute living shit out of other girls. But hey, I guess there’s probably some grand excuse that ultimately amounts to “men make us like that,” or whatever. In the end, the blame always conveniently falls on “the patriarchy.”

So basically, if you just get really good at engineering “loss of control,” you never have to dribble?

He’s got credibility because he’s an enthusiast and writes about what matters to him. If he starts going back and censoring his thoughts/feelings/impressions of a vehicle there’s a good chance he’s going to leave out some aspects that brought him credibility to begin with.

There was nothing offensive about Omar’s tweet, unless you literally assume that criticism of Israeli policy, and of the lobbying regime (which is very much out in the open, as all lobbying effectively is, not some paranoid conspiracy theory) that gains them influence in our political environment, equates to…

Fuck Nancy Pelosi for giving Donald Trump the ammo he now needs to call for Omar’s resignation. She owed nobody an apology, and none of the people attacking her are doing so in good faith. It is 100% about negating any and all valid criticism of Israeli policy in regards to Palestine and Palestinians.

The problem is that, while you and a few others might want one, nobody else does. You are only an individual. And the fact is, they used to offer manuals as a bona fide option on higher-end trims. Fewer and fewer people bought them over time. Why? Because automatics got better and better. Cars are appliances for the…

The carmakers have tried, but you guys never buy new, “enthusiast”-facing cars.

No ones cares.

No, you fuck off. You’re the one mis/not-reading others’ actual points before responding to them. You so want me to be a neoliberal caricature that you can’t see I’m making the precisely opposite case. We SHOULD be oriented toward socialism, but we aren’t.

And you apparently haven’t read anything I’ve written. I WANT us to be oriented toward socialism. I WANT our social programs to be insulated against attacks from capital, regardless of how useful they are to capital. But that’s not the reality we live in. We are oriented towards capitalism. To argue otherwise is to…

I am having this discussion honestly. My suggestion is that, since you would be a net taker under this scheme as well, perhaps you should spend more time worrying about how you live your own life, and less worrying about how others live theirs, as though you occupy any sort of position to turn up your nose at others.…

This is why we can’t have nice things kids. I’m hoping that there will be fines, restitution, jail and court martials all around.

You are kvetching about a minuscule slice of the public. And what I fear is that people who echo your attitude would hold an entire idea hostage just to spite that group of people. There is nothing worse than people who are against social programs because they can’t stand the idea of there existing an “undeserving”…