I think when you say “your payments vary” you really mean the ratio of interest to principle varies.

The thought process here would make sense if there was evidence to show that higher income people committed moving infractions at a disproportionate rate compared to the general population. That might show that the deterrent effect of the fine was ineffective and needed to be adjusted.

I find that a consistently great way to beat the richest man in America is by refusing to work for him.

This comment is so blunt that it made me laugh out loud.

Giving the caricature life lends validity to the original complaint.

One of these days I’m going to get out to H2R on a car day. It’d be interesting to see whether anything you learn riding around that track on a motorcycle translates to four wheels.

Ah gotcha. I thought you meant brake and throttle. Whoops.

It’s actually pretty terrible advice.

Brake override is the ECU programming that allows some modern, RBW, cars to ignore throttle input in favor of the brake when both pedals are pressed simultaneously... among other things.

I think most of the “why would this happen” people just don’t know what fast/smooth/tidy looks like on a race track.

The problem here is that if they wait to deploy until the crash is in progress then they’re already too late.

Doesn't the brake override on most modern cars render this concern irrelevant?

How money works hasn’t changed between then and now. The name of the game is still taking a scarce resource and maximizing its ability to generate value. The specifics of how you might do that may have changed but the general ideas almost certainly have not.

Exactly how many post-mortems on 2016 included that the biggest, most accurate, predictor of a Trump vote was white racial resentment? It wasn’t economic anxiety. It wasn’t a desire to see massively expanded social programs. It wasn’t needing someone to take on big business. It was racial resentment.

Sitting here in 2018 with any degree of awareness of what’s going on and claiming “Democrats need to convince us that they’re better than what we currently have” is such an unabashed display of privilege that it’s hilarious that you guys do it and don’t even realize you’re showing your whole ass.

Each time you guys trot out the “but Democrats don’t have a platform” argument you’re implying that the people that voted the other way are fucking idiots that don’t have two brain cells to rub together.

The political choice at hand in the US is not complicated. Midwesterners are not idiots.

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If the kid is as smart as his GPA/skipping grades suggests he may be and follows through on wanting to be an engineer he’ll be fine. The people struggling with student loan balances aren’t the ones in fields where six figure salaries immediately or shortly after graduation are a thing.

I don’t think anyone is ignoring the cost of financing. People are, however, ignoring the present value of money and the opportunity cost associated with handing said money over to someone else.