Depends on the rich person in question. Some rich people got rich by working very hard. They walked the talk and are doing like many people do and thinking what was good for them is good for everyone. It’s not right but it can be understood. Then there are the rich people who are rich because of circumstance or…

It’s just as often as saying some immigrant group is hard working and willing to do the job for less so you don’t deserve it. That’s more of a democrat response to people complaining about their immigration policies resulting in poorer working conditions and less pay. Could be republican too in the right condition.…

When your business is government protected from someone else taking your market share you don’t need to worry about downtime.

If your business sector is still capitalist or mostly so, you have warehouses and stock for buffers and you avoid downtime or someone else takes your market share if something happens. I’ve…

That’s the whole idea these days, living at the expense of others. The wealthy purchase politicians to tax the productive and send most of the wealth to them. The poor sell their votes to politicians to tax the productive and send some of the wealth to them. The poor are happy to vote for the politicians the wealthy…

More like people finding a reason to continue to make a living on an issue that was solved 25+ years ago.

Look at practically any incremental auto emissions standard change from the last oh 15 years or so. Pick one. Small number and smaller number. Just look at the beginning of this article for what they had to do to get a OMG! number.

What are you babbling about? Emissions equipment warranties are about as related to my comments as aliens from zeta riticuli.

It’s a small number effect. You reduce a very small number by say 50% you have a very small number. Your actual delta is very tiny and cost a lot of money. Because it cost a lot of money economic activity was moved to China where there are no controls of any significance.

Meanwhile in China....

Should have played in the dirt as a child or something.

Tax donkeys are not wealthy people.

In the west we are well into the diminishing returns part of the curve. The heavy lifting was done long ago. These filters in the great scheme of things won’t mean squat, if they do anything it will be lost in the noise of the data or offset by the impacts of manufacturing them in some country that doesn’t even do the…

Furnace filters are cheap and come in standard sizes and are user replaceable without calling out the HVAC guy despite HVAC often being a racket in preventing the public from getting parts. (been there, but I did finally find a place that would sell the part to me)

Knowing regulators and German car manufacturers I…

Now in the name of the degree of viciousness allowed for punishing drunk drivers the law is getting dangerously close to slavery / indentured servitude as restitution. Or maybe the Seinfeld judge decreed butler TV show plot line.

I loathe when people want to race.

As there are less and less of a car finding parts gets harder and harder as a general rule. Less around, less interest can result as well. Maintaining interest and desire for a car where only a handful survive is a crapshoot. Some cars make it, others don’t. Some that make it you have to hang on to for decades before…

Also see that I am a bicyclist. I have a very bright headlamp, three tail lamps, and a full set of reflectors. People still claim not to me see me. I am lit up like a Christmas tree.

I was commenting on this idea that a car without lights would be invisible. It’s not. Yet people hit parked cars they don’t see day and…

Bicycle helmets are piece of syrofoam rated for a six foot fall. They have very limited use and essentially don’t matter if you are hit by a motor vehicle. If you are less than 6' tall and prone to falling on your bicycle, sure wear one. But other than that a bicycle helmet is actually more useful while driving an…

I’ve seen countless vehicles on the road at night without lights on. Haven’t hit one yet. The taillamps, sidemarkers, and so on have reflectors built in not only for that but so people don’t hit parked cars. You haven’t hit a parked car that was on the side of the road because it didn’t have lights on right?

If you’re on a bicycle you are automatically lesser. It doesn’t matter who you are, your skin color or anything else. You’re on a bicycle and society still thinks bicycles are for weirdos, the poors, and people who’ve lost their DL for a DUI.

That’s why the typical ‘white cheerleader’ you are invoking would never be…