you're not worried about the radio in your car anymore.

And from a customer standpoint I'd much rather spend $20 bucks on a crank radio in the trunk of my car than $1000 on the complex research and circuitry to make my EV run FM radio. Realistically the only thing I'm gonna listen to on FM while driving is the ghost of Rush Limbaugh.

'How do you disable google phone audio emojis'

Instead of going "FML, I failed as a parent" woman decides to blame society and successfully lobbies to make batteries harder to change for everyone.

No worse than that guy who couldn't be bothered to check his surroundings and ran over his kid. Instead of going "FML, I failed as a parent" he decides to blame society and successfully lobbies to make backup cameras mandatory in every vehicle and now we have to contend with higher costs and higher repair bills when they fail.

At least he wasn't in Russia and fell out of a window.

No. Growth is not the default state of natural systems. Equilibrium is the natural state of natural systems. Long term stability is the only reason life is even possible on Earth. Of course, over geological time frames change is inevitable, but in timeframes that are relevant to humans and human society, stability is the norm and indeed required for life and our civilization.

Growth beyond equilibrium is characteristic of cancer and parasites. Markets are NOT akin to natural systems; they do not establish a natural equilibrium despite what post-Keynesian economists would have you believe. Don't believe me? Get your head out of your first year economics textbook and have a look around ffs.

Losing an invaluable national alert system isnt worth people saving a few bucks off a cars price.

I find it hard to believe that not being able to swap out the radio or sound system has much of an effect on a cars resale value let alone the idea that nothing else kills the resale value more. Given that I cant even remember the last I heard anyone even mention doing as such (probably all the way back to my early 20's) I doubt there's much demand for being able to do so.

I listen to radio driving to work all the time, I like the fact that it gets me listening to music that I enjoy from outside of my personal music collection and what I listen to at home along with the fact that it just instantly works with no fuss when I start the car.

Given that, I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about in regards to ads on radio being such a burden. I easily get more ads streaming free Pandora then I ever do listening to the radio.

If you'd bothered to read the entire summary (a horrible burden, I know) then you'd know that 82 million Americans still use AM radio which is about a quarter of the population. When that many people regularly use something no one cares about the one yahoo on the internet declaring they dont give any fucks.

I'm not sure what you mean by "it's called an economy". That phrase might sound all edumacated in your head, but my point was that privatised debt on public services like education, healthcare, or infrastructure represent a "bleed" on that economy. And a bleed has exactly the same effect as it has on a human body. It might play out over a far longer period of time, but the effect is the same: A slow an eventual deterioration of health and if not stopped, eventual death. The debt servicing load on the collective OECD countries now exceeds even optimistic growth forecasts. In other words, blood is being extracted faster than the body can produce it.

But whatever. History will show which one of us is right. Let's talk in 20 years. If the OECD has emerged into bountiful prosperity, you were right. If it has shrunken or worse, I was.

Just because student loans are discounted does not mean that they cannot be packaged and resold to the private sector. Look up SLABs:
https://www.investopedia.com/a...

Why don't you start your own web search company? Google's results have been shit for years, and they're getting worse. Granted you probably like some of the soft censorship they engage in, but still. The opportunity is there, and it should be relatively cheap to compete as long as you avoid their latest patents.

Dude what

How can you say it's cheap and then tell people to "feel free to look up their own numbers"? What a cop out.

Because they have a de facto Monopoly on search and long-form video. They are also the only other viable operating system for phones.

If we do not start enforcing antitrust law pretty much everything is going to collapse. The problem is that we need to start making political decisions based on economics and not moral panics and culture wars.

This is hard because people don't understand the difference between a moral panic and civil rights. You can explain the difference to people but like Reagan said if you're explaining you're losing.

But as hard as it is we've got to do it because the alternatives are terrible.

No. Grow or die is a false dichotomy and it's why we're about to grow ourselves out of our planet.