And I pay $1200/m making minimum wage.
$9.50/hr *160 hours/mo = $1520/mo - $1200 rent = $320/mo for food, transportation, utilities, phone, internet, clothing etc. Someone might actually pull that off if they were working 80 hours a week...but you probably wouldn't find them commenting on
Just like most mutations are unsuccessful, most creative ideas are not "welfare increasing", after all, the status quo came about for a reason and your idea has to be pretty clever to beat it in all, or even most, metrics.
Of course, on the off chance a creative idea *is* successful, we're all for it, but that's pretty hard to determine in advance. And more importantly, after the fact, all the discomfort from change (and one shouldn't underestimate how much change hurts psychologically) has already been paid for, so we can simply enjoy the benefits.
Bad analogy since it is a myth that most mutations are unsuccessful. They have found that each individual has 60 to 100 genetic mutations...all quite functional.
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/30692/title/Our-own-60-mutations/
Another creation of the All powerful bike lobby. Helmets are just a particularly sturdy stepping stone on the way towards totalitarianism.
Yeah...This seems pretty raving out of context. Just FYI, here is the context http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWf2JyIKrN4 There are more videos about this and it is a long standing sore spot in NYC
If mathematically you end up with the wrong answer, try multiplying by the page number.