Much of the disposability is driven by monetary policy and regulatory policy. People want the same numerical price on the shelf year over year. To achieve that in the face of monetary inflation requires cost reducing the product. Then add on top of that the regulatory requirements which cost money. This means cost…

It’s not a catch if you have discipline. Set aside the funds to cover the loan in cash in a bank account earning above zero interest or some investment that is easy to turn back into cash that earns more than zero. It can be done in a lump sum as if paying cash or done on the basis of what a payment over a more…

But it’s the result of what this website supports. Emissions, crash safety, and fuel economy beyond the point of diminishing returns costs lots of money. The technology of robot cars and gizmos that mitigate the results of the other mandates being pushed into cars costs money. Electric car technology costs money. Then…

Sales people generally do not know cars in any detail and the information you asked him for is often proprietary and not released by the manufacturer. Not that isn’t found out and published by other sources, but it’s pretty rare to see torque and power curves from the manufacturer except maybe in the most redacted and…

But if you keep going against the approved views on things you can be regreyed or never get out of them.

“his car had vanished from his parking space.”

Back in the 1990s I read a story in Hemmings about I think was a 1930s Buick. It was parked in the driveway of building he owned. He went into the hospital for ten days. City law was 7 days not moving it’s abandoned. The car was taken and “crushed”. Which in Chicago means someone at a contractors tow yard now owns it…

The former is not rare at all when someone in government is stealing or is intentionally using government power to harm someone.

“Also no US municipality would be able to get a car marked as abandoned and crushed inside of three days.”

“But what the heck was up with all that tacky orange paint in the hallways?”

“I can’t quite figure out what era they’re going for, given the mix of ‘70s and ‘80s on display.”

“Competing cars from almost every era look a lot like each other to anyone not attuned to their differences.”

I can tell them apart quite easily, at least to the point of which automaker. Each had various distinctive features. The only ones that are any trouble are the badge engineered cars that used all the same parts except for the badges. At a distance I’ll think it’s Ford but it turns out to be the Mercury version of the…

She wants to wear it because democrats and the left in general score people on their group victimhood status instead of as individuals. They will judge people who grew up next door to each other, went to the same schools, same economic class, etc and so on. Basically the same experiences to the degree anyone can…

The bridge was repaired and reopened in Jan 2018.

There’s a choice. Do the leg work, buy a ~20 year old car in decent shape or even as a beater from a private seller for cash. Buy some basic tools. Learn how to maintain it yourself. Sure it will have issues but most can be anticipated and repaired for chump change in parts. But that’s too difficult to expect of…

Most libertarians would be just fine with pre Horace Mann, pre Prussian model public schools.  But if you want a model of schooling designed to produce human resources for government, military, and corporate employment then well, there’s not much use in whining about people being turned into company town debt slaves…

Private schools would be accountable to the customers. Schools need not be run by government. IMO the modern public schools need to go away before there is any fundamental change in this country towards freedom or even away from corporatism. A return the original american public school system before the adoption of…

How to avoid a subprime lender? Teach them how to maintain and repair a car themselves and how to get by with what they can purchase with cash and keep it for a long time.

Of course the ruling class wants to keep people ignorant. That’s why they took over public schools a century ago plus. As Carlin put it, they want “obedient workers” just smart enough to do the work but not sit at the kitchen table able to figure out how they are getting fucked. (For a detailed look into what was done…