Can you imagine having your truck sell less units than the ugliest dumpster fire vehicle ever to exist?

Funny thing is, sometimes I’ll do this out of the blue days later and my wife picks up on it immediately.

This is actually optimistic. They think kids are going to grow up.

But… Jobs!!!

Thank you. I was freaking out. Isn’t this what they call a stream of consciousness?

Umm the burden is on the one making the claim. It’s also customary on the net to site the source so… No I didn’t.

I’ve already lost hope, but good luck with that.

Man, I hope you’re right.

Thank you

I don’t see a source.

You are right that we COULD do many of these things. But we won’t. We live in a society of people who deny there is even a problem. Anyone who knows it’s either powerless or looking to profit.

Humans work on crisis management. We ignore a problem until it bites us in the face. Then we band together and defeat it. Unfortunately, when a problem exists that can’t be corrected by the time it bites us, no banding together will stop it.

Did you mean to respond to me because I don’t see how it relates? I assume you are responding to the thread.

I agree with you to a point. I mean, think of how wonderful a world it could be if there was any kind of equity. People making sure everyone is fed, no theft, no slavery, etc. It’s almost traumatizing to realize we have the capacity to make this a reality, but don’t.

I’ve come to the conclusion this is just fantasy. It’s human nature to destroy itself. People have a long history of hating people not like them. Just when I think we’re making progress along comes racism again.

I don’t believe this will ever change. It’s a true shame.

Ohio let’s you check out 100 books at a time?

The weird thing is it’s kind of more bizarre than a dystopian society. In dystopia, you know resources are scarce and that you have to defend yourself with violence. But in this actual dystopia, I can still get up and go play disc golf, pretty much without incident. There could come a day when I’m pulled over by some Nazi cop who decides to make an example of me, which face it, has been the case for some time now, but until then for little things like that, it’s pretty much business as usual despite the plummet into fascism. Very weird.

Don’t forget the healthy dose of salary and humane treatment.

It was horrible.

Man, don’t read this article unless you have a strange desire to have nightmares.

A $60k car and a $1600 cell phone are NOT essential for life and I didn’t just “nah, it is just that,” the argument. You’re just having reading comprehension problems.

Let’s drop to your level. Are you stupid enough to believe that people don’t buy things they can’t afford? If you only have even $10 to your name and you need food, you go to the most economical grocery store you can get to and maximize your purchases. You don’t walk into Starbucks and order a latte. The OP implied that because there is as larger economic problem at hand, money management isn’t an issue. They are ALWAYS both an issue.

And yes I understand that the problem is that people have to manage $10 now instead of $1000. It was not my intention to minimalize that.

Ok. Troll go ahead and keep believing what you want. You will always be right.

OMG, would people get off the friggin cell phone thing already. People buy all kinds of things they can’t afford. Money management would help with that. That was my only point. But if we HAVE to talk cell phones then fine. High end phones are over $1k. I just bought one for $200. To a person with little money, yeah cell phones too.