“How George Washington ran a country and also made time for fun hobbies like homebrewing is totally beyond me.”

I had a manual, 5 speed, Jeep Wrangler when I turned 16. I found in driving it around town that I often didn’t need to get out of third gear. One day I mentioned this to one of my older sister’s friends. This guy drove a GMC Jimmy. And when that one wore out, he bought another Jimmy. Eventually, he wound up driving a…

I’m not sure that’s the only reason. Maybe it is. But I think you do want to keep from getting in your own way as you turn. This is more of a problem if you’re turning quickly and you need to make more than one revolution of the wheel. I don’t know. I have always done it, but I did a Skip Barber thing a while back and…

I have similar feelings toward Baltimore’s Penn Station. It’s a beautiful relic that has been beaten down over time. Unlike Detroit’s station, Baltimore’s still gets a lot of use, because Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor runs through it. The building itself is in a Beaux Arts style and retains a ton of original details.…

Anything by Lamborghini?

Only problem is as soon as that thing lands, it’s going to roll.

Avenatti is wrong. Cohen’s attorneys informed the court via letter that Broidy was the second client. It wasn’t the Trump Org.

Do you have some special knowledge of how large vehicles are built? I’m asking seriously, because it’s not like the grill/hood are soft. They’re not going to cushion you if you hit the car there. I find your assertion about the physics to be weird. No matter what’s going on, you’re still getting hit by 4000 lbs.

Interesting. Alright, thank you for the discussion. I’m going to leave it here for now. For further reading, I would suggest Karl Popper’s The Open Society and Its Enemies, which I generally agree with. His argument is largely that Marx made some philosophical assumptions (importing a lot of Hegel) that are not…

Ok, why is it not economic? Using a basic definition, if economics is about the distribution of resources in society, why is prosperity as it relates to the Maasai property tenure system not about economics? I’m assuming that people with bigger herds probably can make bigger claims to the environmental resources. Is…

I’m happy to believe you, actually. I am honestly trying to recognize that I don’t know everything, and it’s a good thing that we got past just bitching at each other. Let’s call this mistranslated term <prosperity>. Your argument is that it is not an economic indicator/evaluation, and it was not an economic…

Okay, this is where I run into the problem. Wealth and poverty are economic indicators and evaluations. My problem is that I think non-capitalist societies also use or used economic indicators/evaluations and they used their own terms of concept-wealth and concept-poverty. Just to take an example, most pastoral…

Ok, this is what I’m hearing from you:

Is there a reason to buy this over a VW GTI? It seems like it’s a tiny bit larger and has AWD, but that’s about it.

Then I apologize for saying that. We’ve gone back and forth a couple times, and I just want to lay out my position and see what your response is. First, I find Marxism to be overly theoretical. My point in response to your last post was that you were rejecting any translation of a concept of wealth, and to me that…

You deleted a bunch of comments just because you didn’t like my responses? You should be embarrassed.

Dude, you went in so many circles there. This is like the definition of circular reasoning. Look at your conclusion: “Anyone who claims that there are people who define concept-wealth as something that isn’t capitalist are wrong and incorrectly translating that definition.” You’re saying that if someone translates…

Just to be clear, I think Marx has been proven wrong over time. I also think he made a bunch of bad assumptions. At the end of the day, I think any person who tries to create a single, self-contained theory that explains the entire world is just setting themselves up for failure. Nothing can do that.

How about Ten Thousand Years of Wealth, The Archaeology of Wealth Differences, edited by Timothy Kohler and Michael Smith. It just came out.

I don’t see why you think this is a real challenge. Merriam-Webster: