The US government considers a 500hp V8 4-ton lifted RAM capable of cruising at 90mph with a iPad permantly embedded in the dash safer than a little 40mpg truck with a usable bed.
but muh safety
We have license classes and riding restrictions for a reason, numbnuts. This is 100% just protections BS. Otherwise, explain motorcycles or tractors being allowed on the road.
Kei trucks, and, hell, any good cars, are only dangerous to one thing: American profits.
Says who? Billionaire investors and regulators for a newly-elected President who saw an imaginary red line go up for two consecutive quarters? "Peace for our times." The '08 crash was (is) massive and will be the defining event of the 21st century for future historians. Literally nothing but WW3 could overshadow it's legacy.
Notice how the "timeline" section doesn't end with "and then everything went back to normal in June 2009." Tens of trillions of dollars evaporated overnight.
2011: Median household wealth fell 35% in the U.S., from $106,591 to $68,839 between 2005 and 2011.
2014: A report showed that the distribution of household incomes in the United States became more unequal during the post-2008 economic recovery, a first for the United States but in line with the trend over the last ten economic recoveries since 1949.
2017: Per the International Monetary Fund, from 2007 to 2017, "advanced" economies accounted for only 26.5% of global GDP (PPP) growth while emerging and developing economies accounted for 73.5% of global GDP (PPP) growth.
A shrinking median household incomes, racial wealth inequality, the rise of non-Western economies, do these not sound like contemporary issues to you?
What you're referring to is only the illusion of energy expendature. You moving, "burning" energy, isn't really encouraging entropy because you're just changing one energy form to another. The only thing that destroys energy is time.
Serious answer: Shudder. I love all the silly indie horror movies that I'd otherwise never hear about and would frankly never go through the trouble of uploading to my server for watching on Plex. Great fun whenever I have company over or just feel lazy one night and want to watch something mindless.
FWIW I've never heard trades/factory jobs be called "unskilled" before. Only things like cashiers, servers, etc., which I believe are called that because there's really no prerequisite (education or experience) to be immediately "good enough" to do the job
Fiduciary responsibility, companies have a legal obligation to not only protect but grow their investor's money. Part of this is chasing trends that other companies have spent R&D on and found success with.
If Google found that they could make more money selling socks door-to-door than they do with YouTube, they'd have a legal requirement to do so.
"Lord! Forgive these men for they've made their own Heaven!"