I would fully agree that confronting a lunatic face to face is dangerous, but the chances of getting shot for driving slow is next to zero.
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There is a 3rd type: people desperate for work / experience who are simply taking the best paying job they can find. It is actually the most common type of working in the US.
Unfortunately, we live in a post-truth society where the vast majority of people have traded the pursuit of truth for the comfort of confirmation bias.
And the last 6 months have shown us that the stock market is mostly just vibes and manipulation rather than being grounded in facts and reality.
I am just mad that free trade is only allowed when it benefits the rich, but the moment the Chinese produce a very affordable EV that would help millions of Americans while helping us fight climate change, suddenly we aren't allowed to buy it because our neo-feudal oligarchs can't take a cut for themselves....
Free trade is a farce and our entire system is rotten.
The root failure of our political systems is allowing money to buy political representation. Once money can buy political influence then the system will inevitably be hijacked and corrupted to serve money over people
Corporations did this, and everyone just went with it.
Not true, a socialist movement was on the rise in the US but then the government started abducting and arresting anyone who had any ties to socialism from Truman to McCarthy.
The government has been very clear that any real threat to zombie consumerism/ capitalism will quickly be snuffed out through state sanctioned violence.
Also, the US bombed the fuck out of every country that tried to resist being taken over by western corporations. "The Jakarta Method" is a very interesting read on the untaught atrocities of the US government that forced the world down the path it went down.
As a kid, I thought of the natives as being simple and child like... But now I see western expansion into NA as being like the orcs tearing down trees from the Two Towers.
They have Gold Sickness which is a cancer of the soul.
A yank tank / wank tank is any SUV or pickup that is larger than the tanks we used to beat the Nazis (not joking)
Capitalism is bad at pricing in externalities. It's pretty good at using price signals to allocate finite resources to more productive uses.
Markets do not equal capitalism. You can have the efficiencies of free markets (worker owned co-ops which are market socialist) without the all consuming greed of capitalism.
If so, then oaths clearly aren't enough. We need to empower doctors to have more ownership over medical decisions.
This goes back to the heart of the issue of capitalism vs socialism: the people who have the actual expertise to do the actual work need to share in ownership over their work so that the work gets done properly. Doctors should be at the helm of the healthcare industry just like engineers should be at the helm of Boeing.
Worse, too often these laws are selectively enforced only when cops are looking for an excuse to profile minorities and poorer drivers.