Not the point. Sedans are still 30% of the car market in the US. Toyota, Nissan, Hyundai, even Volkswagen are seeing some declines, yes, in favor of CUVs, but their sales numbers in the sedan, hatch, and small car segment are still pretty huge.

1000% - they’re conflating their lack of ability to compete in the small car segment (other small cars are seeing declines but their volumes are 10x Ford), with the idea that the market is dictating their moves. On the one hand, yes, on the other hand, it isn’t because they don’t want products, just not Ford products.

The idea that they think people are just going to switch to other Ford products rather than shop around is fucking bonkers to me.

What an idiot. Doctors don’t exist in a real market economy. Not saying they shouldn’t make money. Just saying there’s nothing “free market” about it. They operate in a socialized pool of money without a ton of market constraints. You know. Socialized economics. Maybe you should learn to read. My small business is…

Extracting value, like... shareholders do? The reasons Unions succeed in Germany are complex and multilayered, as is their manufacturing success, but near the top of this reasons are because labor is part of the discussion in the board-rooms, instead of treated like a pure adversary.

Because sometimes you’re living somewhere in Asia in the middle of nowhere doing expat work and you’re bored out of your mind and the only thing that gives you occasional sanity is rolling down to the local street corner and buying the latest shitty copy of a movie that just came out in theaters because you can’t go…

“Yo dawg, I heard you liked downforce, so I put downforce on your downforce so you could downforce your downforce.” Is that how it goes?

Uhh. Maybe? But I’d argue that George Martin blew his protagonist death wad pretty early and now we are in the cuddling phase. The overarching focus on Jon and his steady growth from (maybe) important to King in the North then Targaryen has been not only REALLY predictable, but also makes it pretty unlikely that he’s…

My rule is generally the following:

I sort of bought your logic until Sam. I my contention is that GRR Martin did all these “shocking” things in the beginning and close to the middle. But since then and since Jon’s resurrection has settled into a pretty conventional story.

You misspelled “4Runner”

Lol. You’re way off your mark here.

No. You wrote that people that only worked minimum wage jobs shouldn’t be having children. Two separate ideas:

What a dumb take. You’re conflating a sensible decision about having the proper financial situation to have a kid with an overall problem with middle class wages.

I dunno. I don’t see a distinction between classic or special interest cars, collectible cars are different because they’re usually extremely rare and expensive. So an Mercedes SLR could be collectible, but not a classic.

3rd Gen 4Runner - 3rd Gen 4Runner - 3rd Gen 4Runner. Jesus Christ 4Runner.

Taycan as far as I can tell, is going to be situated fairly squarely in the Model S price range.

Problem too though is that the Z - even if you like it - looks it’s age. It’s heavy - bulbous - even the 911 looks sleeker and more purposeful. I still don’t understand why even though they totally revamped it in this generation it really looks like a facelift 350z. Nissan looks and feels like it really doesn’t care.…

I offered up a spitball solution to a comment that specifically asked what the wages should be. The answer is going to be much more complex. If you look at labors share of GDP over time - minimum wage should actually be much higher than if you just account for inflation. If you think that minimum wage should be tied…

Actually - I did. Wait. My bad. I didn’t attend to your Starbucks scenario. Yes. I’m sure the online applications flowing in to the Starbucks on the rich side of the street would bring their HR operations to their knees. How will they ever sustainably source their mediocre coffee beans?