Lysander Spooner tried offering letter services cheaper than the postal service in the US, and by most measures was better and cheaper at it. As it turns out as soon as you can do it cheaper, they just did what government does and used their monopoly on violence to put him in a tiny cage.
n 1844, hearing from citizens from every party and under pressure to reform the postal system, Washington lawmakers and the Postmaster General had no intention of sitting still for any of "that Spooner's shenanigans." Suits against Spooner and his cohorts began. Railroad heads were given full warning that contracts for government mails would be removed and fines imposed unless space and passage were refused to private letter carriers. It was "round one" for the government when an agent of Spooner's company in Baltimore was found guilty and fined for transporting letters in a railroad car over a post road of the United States. Spooner himself was arrested in New York on March 7 on three charges by special agents of the Post Office. Another of his agents, Calvin Case, was held to bail for $100 around March 23 for carrying letters on the train.
This is why I don't hire them. I have nothing against their business model, but I'd expect I'd be the guy who gets unlucky and an illegal "gets hurt" (on purpose) then the court actually awards them a gazillion dollars when they claim I'm the evil unregulated employer smashing down the poor man with my lack of liability insurance and whatever long list of other things you need to hand someone else a dollar for a job.
Yes I suspect the rich's strategy of owning nothing and controlling everything contributes as much to their wealth retention through the inevitable catastrophic events in life, as much as snowball interest accumulation does.
Middle class / poor people generally know how to build wealth through interest but make the fatal mistake of keeping their wealth largely tied up in on-paper assets in their name, this means they're ripe for the taking from every judge / wife / healthcare creditors / random guy with a lawsuit as soon as something in their life goes south. Of course once you get to a certain segment of underclass people who are basically unbanked you get back to horse-shoe theory and you'll never be getting their $50k gold chain they keep around their neck.
The walmart experience is so wildly different depending on who they're catering to.
When I lived in poor areas, I've literally been shaken down by gigantic bouncers in the parking lot for "stealing" (but not) a bag of $5 cat litter. Why on earth this is even worth the liability of sending bouncers is beyond me. And everything even remotely valuable and easy to steal is behind locked showcases, but no one gives a fuck to get it out to help you buy it.
In rich areas, it's lobster sandwiches and no one even bothering you for your receipt on the way out, and maybe someone might even help you find something in the store. Nothing you want is behind glass, except maybe something unusually valuable by walmart standards and miniscule like an SD card.
I've lived in about every demographic area of the USA and the only thing that would have gave them away to me as poor in your SUV/walmart story is that they were all fat. Being fat is the best marker of poverty in the USA. The rest just sounds like the lifestyle of Warren Buffett which isn't terribly unusual as the comfortably rich generally only worry about flashy cars if they're a motorhead and often get there in part by being thrifty.
Buffet is well known for "slumming it" at times. He drove a clapped out hail damaged ~decade old mass production model Cadillac like everyday through McDonalds. This is pretty inline with stuff I've seen from comfortably rich families.
>edit: oh fuck me its this goddamn bot poster who just lies to your face
Idk my family in the Phillipines can literally just build a shack near a city with jobs no permits or anything, then carry your kids 5 up on a moped without being hassled by cops. I took a family member to the ER and only charge was $5 worth of pesos for meds (granted if I hadn't paid they'd have got absolutely nothing, but at least it was cheap) , no other charges.
Building a shack with nothing but bamboo and no paperwork in US is illegal almost everywhere, transporting kids this way would get you pulled over, and you spend a fortune to get healthcare to the point of getting Phillipines tier healthcare.
Nominally we're richer, with the freedom to have cops bring violence to us if we're not and we try to keep our unpermitted urban shack. It feels like you have to earn a fortune in the USA to do the things poor countries almost take for granted.
Well, how exactly were they supposed to know he wanted a lawyer and not a lawyerdog, whatever that is? I don't even think that's a real thing! Clearly the suspect was crazy.
Harris only got 48.34%, so less popular vote than Trump. I was one of the 1.85% that voted for 'others', but still would have ranked Trump over Harris (this isn't so much a praise of Trump, just found him and Harris a couple of the absolute worst options), so it very well may be greater than 50% if you narrow those voters just to Trump and Harris, and absolutely over 50% if you discard their votes.
It's contested and speculative, but a reasonable projection of Trump V Harris gives >50% to Trump in a finall runoff for majority.
>>>Or maybe just the less of 2 evils. An intelligent asshat or non asshat that was an imbecile. It was time for a change.
>>Well, no. It was 49.8% of the people that voted from him, which was ~44.4% of the voting age population.
>You posted a lot of words to still not prove that claim
A response was that Trump was the 'lesser' of the two evils.
Someone then claimed Trump got less than the majority of all votes.
Then I pointed out that when you narrow it to the 'two evils', which was the original claim, that it quite likely the majority.
In fact, if you restrict to the two evils, trump did get the majority of the vote of the 'evils.' And if you forced those who voted for someone other than the 'evils' to pick an 'evil', something like 80+% of them would have to pick Harris in order for Trump not to get the majority vote of a runoff for the evils. Possible, but I think unlikely (also consider a very large portion of those 1.x% remaining were libertarian votes who tend to lean more R than D).
>4. If it’s obvious they’re connected, and making any claim of probability re: their connection should require putting your name and reputation on the line, what’s your name?
Steve Lookner?
authorities believe Brown University shooter used rented vehicle that is same make and model of car connected to killing of MIT professor"
From a very young age when I wondered around the rural midwest, I had a gun. Usually a 20ga shotgun or a .22 rifle. Don't think my parents were too worried about me getting kidnapped or murdered. I used it for hunting but I knew what to do in the case of self defense.
Another one of those things that aren't allowed now.
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