Don’t the executives get paid a lot? Also, they travel a lot defending against law suits and negotiating with politicians; I’m pretty sure they always travel first class and stay at the most expensive hotels. I remember years ago somebody asked me for the name of the most expensive hotel in Bangkok. He was tasked with…

They are gambling that all the traditional taxi services will have been bankrupted before then. It’s a field that is a “natural monopoly” anyway because of the huge barrier to entry (buying a fleet of cars for taxis). The thing I don’t get is why they’re pushing for self-driving cars. Under their current system the…

Not so much the stock market, but if unemployment is less than 4% and wages are going up and there’s no obvious crash coming. The stock market has nothing to do with the economy.

Yes, something like that. I forget the details. It’s bound up with a bizarre understanding of what Common Law is. Probably a dose of Natural Rights, too. I’ll bet a Google search would lead you to some entertaining reading. It’s pretty bizarre.

I don’t think that’s Sovereign Citizen stuff. Their major thing is that they are not subject to the legal jurisdiction of any government unless they specifically assent to it. As I understand it. There are several varieties, but mostly they refuse to pay taxes or government fees and they believe that they have the…