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But traditionally housing was also pretty cheap and only select few properties in the right areas gained any significant value over time. Now rentseekers are and have bought up significant amounts of housing and drove both housing and land values up far faster than the low end of wages.

And you think those rights just popped out of the ground and were freely given to everybody and always existed? Your rights don't even match the rights of your neighboring countries, and don't match the rights people had in the past in the same physical place you live in now.

Why do you have rights and privleges that other people don't use?

The alternative is civil uprising and violence, the same as many other demographs and groups of people throughout history have caused because their government and society decided to ignore their demands.

It is in lifetime medical care costs and there have been a few studies in Europe. The majority of medical costs is for age related care that grows exponentially with age, and smoking cuts decades off their life. Most smokers die before they get lung cancer, when they do it rarely results in surgery because they smoke, and it is easier to give a younger person chemo than and older person.

Also have you seen the kind of medication regimes that most 90 year olds take? Many of them take as many pills in a week as a 60 year old has took over the last decade or more.

My state has a few cities that allow shroom sales inside of it, usually in weed dispenseries.

Smoking ironically saves in medical costs because people die before getting into real expensive age related care, and also smoking disqualifies you from a large number of medical procedures that would otherwise be given. Keeping a relatively healthy 90 year old alive for 2 more years costs significantly more than keeping an unhealthy 60 year old smoker alive 10 more years before they have a heart attack or stroke.

Why not? What exactly is wrong with living their way of life?

Hell they might end up one of the largest factions in the US because they still have decent birthrates unlike every other demograph.

Minimum speed requirement on most highways is 45 MPH regardless of vehicle type or licenses. You can't walk or ride a bike or moped down a highway either.

If you are conspiracy minded, their real concern might be that they don't have the ability to easily compromise the car's security with a back door. Most all US cars made in the last 20 years can be disabled remotely, every car that hasn't been hacked up in the past 10 years can not only be disabled remotely but critical functions can be changed while in operation because everything is fly-by-wire and the entire system is interconnected with the infotainment system which has GPS, cellphone, bluetooth connections, and very shortly interior cameras.

Just because the plastic door panels don't rust doesn't mean the metal frame underneath isn't.

Theoretically yes, but in practice if you tell your boss to screw off multiple times a year because they don't want to spend the money to fix the base problem, you will be replaced or fired.

In some industries that is how they keep costs low while pretending they are being safe. They have alarms or procedures that say something is bad or wrong, but fixing some problems costs more money than it saves so they want them to be ignored, and managers will get angry and admonish you or eventually fire you if you keep following procedure and stopping to check problems. So eventually they build a team of people essentially trained to ignore problems. Which is why many oil pipelines still use ancient and unreliable leak detectors, they know those systems are unreliable and the operators will get alarm fatigue from the 200 false alarms, and that way they also ignore when a real problem happens, and worse case for the company they scapegoat the operator. They don't care that 2,000 gallons of oil leaked into the wilderness and poisoned the land if it would cost 2,000+ gallons of oil profit to shut down and repair the leak. They have a financial interest to not fix it.

You will catch political sub bans for posting in and/or joining all sorts of other political subs, no matter what you actually said. I got more than a few from the exact opposite end of the political spectrum. All the political subs have been bought and paid for by propagandists for atleast a decade now. And having to either catching more random bans or having to self-censor myself, I left.

Hell there were even multiple political sub moderator purges that were right out in the open. Entire mod lists changing over night in multiple subs even way back.

The Lower Decks was good as a love letter to older fans, I do recommend that. But both Discovery and Academy were horrendous and I regret the time spent. Picard had a few good episodes and it was nice to see the old crew but was not great. Stranger New Worlds had some good things and wasn't a butcher job but not anything to write home about in my opinion.

But the labor costs of manufacturing are still tiny compared to material costs. If labor was free for European manufacturing that would only drop the price a token amount, not the £10,000+ that Chinese autos have over current cars.

If it truly went to everybody to me it is just government paying dividends to the people. Which I think is far preferable and useful compared to corporate bailouts and tax cuts and most other allocations. We gave money to people during covid and it wasn't catastrophic.