So, what ride occupies your personal sonic sweet spot?

1st Gear:

And needlessly rev their asthmatic engines.  You forgot the engine revving. 

So, Harley’s plan is to keep selling motorcycles nobody needs to people who don’t need them?

Or hate telephone solicitors. (No not that kind of solicitors!)

The guy who runs that CovidFester packing plant in Sioux Falls?

“I arranged my own travel and paid for my own food.”

This is a very, very, hard “NO.”

“Earlier today, my valet brought me a stack of salmonskin pages. . .”

2d Gear: Amazon Sucks

1st Gear: Cheap gasoline is #1 problem facing America

Yeah, possible I guess. 

https://www.mr2oc.com/threads/hose-from-hell.85740/

Mostly, yes. 

During this time, American automakers kept bitching that the UAW line-workers were always drunk or hung-over. But seemingly, every US-produced Big Three product during this period was produced on Monday AM or Friday afternoon. Ther were actually just making bad cars badly. The Japanese manufacturers were still trying…

You can only eat each rich guy once. But you can tax them for years.

Silly, silly children

In order for the “efficiency” as you say, to offset the capital investment of paying workers what they think they deserve to be paid, you would literally have to fire half of them and use robots and automation in order to produce a competitively-priced product.

I did not suggest, and would not argue that we should “let businesses fail.” Whether we have an efficient or fair capitalist economy aside, businesses are the fabric of the macro structure that allows the creation and distribution of value in the United States. They are “powered” by the labor of individuals, but they…

In which case, they have made their choices; and choices have consequences.