As opposed to serial psychopathy, where parents believe their children should never have adult supervision of any kind, and are just turned loose on society as wild animals to be put down when they get caught?

Maybe in addition, but around here, boob jobs are ubiquitous, always have been, always will be. This is the land where natural blondes dye their eyebrows brunette to look like bleached blonde bimbos.

And let's not go in to give your 16 year old a boob job for her birthday, eh?

You clearly have a better class of 20something on your planet than we have here on earth.

If it's like the Ford model that had a similar feature a few years ago, it's controlled by which key you use - regular key, valet key, teenager key. Yeah, most teens could easily swap keys with Mummy or Daddy, but then Mummy and Daddy will start getting warnings when they speed or play the radio too loud.

You've clearly never lived among The Beautiful People of southern California, where a lot of kids would literally murder their parents in their sleep if they didn't get a brand new car for their 16th birthday.

Because then you'll have shithead 20somethings on the road instead, with no parental supervision whatsoever.

The only way to learn to drive is to drive.

And find out that everyone else has agreed (secretly) to require the same terms. "Agree to our terms, or go hungry" is not a free market.

It's only freedom if both parties are equal in the negotiations. That is rarely the case in employment contracts. Since a free market is, almost inherently, impossible, it is a choice between being regulated by the more powerful of the two parties, or by an outside third party.

Only one side of the contract would agree with you.

So you're suggesting the government should legalize identity theft and the selling of other people's bank login information?

I've seen worse on paperbacks. Baen is famous for their bad covers, though the non-US ones are far, far worse. This, for instance.

Then how about Survivor: Baffin Island. Let's see those bikinis now, bitch.

Give, no. But the Russians will cheerfully sell one to anyone with enough money.

I think you misspelled "con artists."

If Survivor had happy endings, it would be an infinitely better show. So would Survivor: Turkish Prison, where every week, a contestant gets voted in front of the firing squad.

As to Mars, anybody who believed for one moment that NASA was going to participate in sending people to another planet to die is a moron.