That’s a fair point.  

I specifically used the phrase “to make the product” to cover all those costs. Include within that cost whatever R&D, overhead costs, advertising, etc you’d like. The point is - did the manufacturer lose money on the car? I’m not interested in the costs to the dealer. I’m interested in the costs to the manufacturer.

There’s actually a cool bit of research about consumer preference in dealerships. Overwhelmingly the parts most people hate (like 70%+ of respondents) involve the negotiating process and the paperwork process. They want to shop for the car online, pick what they want, fill out whatever they need, hit submit and be…

Well “invoice”.  Nobody really knows what “invoice” is for a particular car in a particular week.  Between incentives, kickbacks, buy backs, sales goals, and all the other weird business deals between manufacturers and dealerships, it’s damn hard to tell what the actual cost of a specific vehicle might be.  

In what world would it matter if Ford/GM/Hyundai/etc kept the money or Bob’s Big Dealership Emporium and Bait Shop keeps the money?  I’d rather Hyundai keep my money than Bob’s Big Dealership.  I drive a Hyundai (well Mazda in my case), not a car from Bob’s Big Dealership.  Hyundai can use it to make better cars. …

Let me ask you this.... did you broker any deals in which the dealership sold you the car out the door for less than it took for the manufacturer to make the product?  And if so, what percentage - best estimate - of all deals have you brokered that could be characterized this way?

Something something high ground. Something else something something roll with pigs... I don’t know. Insert some other platitude about chins being up or heads being high....? Whatever gets you through the dreariness of an unemployment line and not having health insurance combined with ever growing student loans....?

I don’t think we actually got the real “The Snyder Cut”. I seriously doubt WB would have let him release a 4 hour movie to movie theaters. The theaters themselves would have balked too much. What we got was Snyder’s Dream Cut which allowed him all the time/room he wanted to express everything he wanted. I would be…

Whedon’s greatest contribution - and I have zero idea if this was even Whedon or it was the execs pushing it so maybe not so much ‘contribution’ as result - was reducing that dreck down from 4 freakin’ hours. After 2 hours, I thought Snyder’s take was terrible, but at least it was logically internally consistent,…

Cyborg was in the wrong movie.  His concerns and his arc are about him maturing as a person despite his increased responsibilities and the limitations they impose on him.  That’s basically the subtext of most of the Teen Titans, so his arc works great in that context.  Cyborg’s story doesn’t really work in a Justice…

I thought Reed’s was, “I’m brilliant/highly intelligent/super intelligent/smartest one here so listen to me.”

And being shamed can be the thing that is the catalyst that causes someone to decide to change.

Lots of people know stuff “for a fact” and most of the time... they’re wrong. Shaming doesn’t work. We just delude ourselves into thinking that temporal proximity between our shitty behavior and their change ‘proves’ it works.

Yeah, but.... no. I mean, who pays the personal property taxes on it? Who is responsible for maintaining it? Should it be used in a harmful way, say in a crime or someone injures themselves on it, who is responsible for it? I don’t think “the bank owns it” is as cut and dried as we’d like.

Some of these answers a pretty straight forward and some are more complex (like most things). Keep in mind a student loan owned by the Federal Government (as opposed to private loans) is nothing more than the majority of tax payers profiting off the minority of tax payers.

Telling someone that being obese has documented, studied health consequences is not fat shaming.

people still need to learn to live within their means...

Given the failure rate of business, particularly small ones, if your business school isn’t teaching you to plan for $0.00 revenue next month, you should quit immediately and find a different business school.

Shaming ain’t about helping someone. It’s about getting your rocks off thinking you’re better than someone else and reveling in getting to tell them that fact. It’s about the shamer getting to feel better by tearing someone else down. Then the bully gets to delude themselves into thinking their doing the victim a…

That’s kind of the GOP’s thing.