The ability to effectively direct the efforts of others is a rare quality. When used, it deserves and often gets rewards in proportion to value added. The value added and the reward can far exceed that of even a very good worker. Many CEOs and venture capitalists are like that.
Sure, there are a lot of trustifarians out there like the Kennedy family, which gained its money from crime and maintains its money by politics. It's wrong to think that most rich are like that.
What part of "free" in free market do you not understand?
Giving up your money to the man with the gun, and doing nothing to prevent it from happening again, does not provide "insurance against this kind of trouble," it encourages that kind of trouble.
A society in which productive people spend a significant portion of their time trying to keep their possessions from being stolen (by the government) is less productive than it would otherwise be. The wealth of a society is created by its production, and you are proposing policies that would reduce production and thereby make the society poorer.
I got my money through hard and intelligent work and grew it by wise investing. Take your insults to me and shove them.
Part of value is scarcity. The number of people who work as teachers is greatly outnumbered by those who can teach, so much so that barriers to entry - required superfluous degrees and unions - are in place to provide upward wage pressure and job security.
If you can read and don't lose your temper easily, you can teach a child to read. The abilities needed by a teacher of the very young are indeed minimal.
If you're looking for "meaning" in your life, you're doing it wrong; your attitude is harming you. Whether you're an assembly line worker or a cashier, you should be able to find satisfaction in doing your job and doing it well, in knowing that your productivity and your pleasantness toward the people you deal with is making the world a better place. Moreover, you should find satisfaction in almost everything you do. The search for meaning is a recipe for existential angst and unhappiness.
For-profit libraries, although rare, do exist. More common are privately run nonprofit libraries. An entity does not need to choose between making money and taking government funds.
There are many for-profit schools at all educational levels.
For-profit firefighting also exists. There have been cases of them refusing to assist a non-subscriber; that's one way to deal with free riders.
Armed forces: where do you think revolutions come from?
Private police forces exist in many contexts; just seldom in direct competition with government police forces.
Rural condo associations have their own sewer systems.
That leaves Public Health Laboratories - I'm not sure just what you mean, but there have been a great number of health organizations set up by rich people or dedicated groups.
Freedom of speech and press is telling the President he's an asshole. Freedom of expression is masturbating in front of a group of first-graders on a playground. It's no surprise that a progressive doesn't know the difference.
With regard to the creation of the United States, it was a reaction to the initiation of violence by Britain. Initiating violence against the innocent is always wrong.
Crash because you didn't have enough acceleration to merge into highway traffic from the entrance ramp? You only have to have inadequate power once to understand that you need more. For most people, high horsepower is not needed for routine use.
In my experience, cars with less than 1 horsepower per 15 pounds of weight are a danger to everyone on the road.
So that's why they have air bags in race cars? Oh wait... they don't, they have racing harnesses. Cars have air bags because consumers won't put up with the inconvenience of a superior safety system.
Tech stuff - electronics and other such fluff - don't weigh all that much. Heavy features include a stiffer body and more soundproofing.
Have you ever driven a US car made in the 1950s ? Creaks and rattles and a feeling that the seats, the steering wheel, the body, and the tires were connected with rubber bands. Modern cars are solid feeling, and that feeling is achieved with better engineering and bigger parts in relation to the car's size.
If you increase horsepower with a 100% efficient engine you necessarily are increasing fuel consumption.
If you have a 100% efficient engine, then the fuel used is entirely independent of the engine's power; the fuel use is determined by factors external to the engine (drag and drivetrain efficiency).
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You are proposing the employer pay for an education in addition to paying more money than an unskilled person deserves.
The ability to effectively direct the efforts of others is a rare quality. When used, it deserves and often gets rewards in proportion to value added. The value added and the reward can far exceed that of even a very good worker. Many CEOs and venture capitalists are like that.
Sure, there are a lot of trustifarians out there like the Kennedy family, which gained its money from crime and maintains its money by politics. It's wrong to think that most rich are like that.
What part of "free" in free market do you not understand?
Giving up your money to the man with the gun, and doing nothing to prevent it from happening again, does not provide "insurance against this kind of trouble," it encourages that kind of trouble.
A society in which productive people spend a significant portion of their time trying to keep their possessions from being stolen (by the government) is less productive than it would otherwise be. The wealth of a society is created by its production, and you are proposing policies that would reduce production and thereby make the society poorer.
I got my money through hard and intelligent work and grew it by wise investing. Take your insults to me and shove them.
Part of value is scarcity. The number of people who work as teachers is greatly outnumbered by those who can teach, so much so that barriers to entry - required superfluous degrees and unions - are in place to provide upward wage pressure and job security.
If you can read and don't lose your temper easily, you can teach a child to read. The abilities needed by a teacher of the very young are indeed minimal.
If you're looking for "meaning" in your life, you're doing it wrong; your attitude is harming you. Whether you're an assembly line worker or a cashier, you should be able to find satisfaction in doing your job and doing it well, in knowing that your productivity and your pleasantness toward the people you deal with is making the world a better place. Moreover, you should find satisfaction in almost everything you do. The search for meaning is a recipe for existential angst and unhappiness.
If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
There are no death panels.
The dimming devices are manufactured on Venus.
Venusian blinds.
Pollution is a problem largely caused by the failure to define and enforce property rights. The ham-handed EPA is not the right way to go about it.
For-profit libraries, although rare, do exist. More common are privately run nonprofit libraries. An entity does not need to choose between making money and taking government funds.
There are many for-profit schools at all educational levels.
For-profit firefighting also exists. There have been cases of them refusing to assist a non-subscriber; that's one way to deal with free riders.
Armed forces: where do you think revolutions come from?
Private police forces exist in many contexts; just seldom in direct competition with government police forces.
Rural condo associations have their own sewer systems.
That leaves Public Health Laboratories - I'm not sure just what you mean, but there have been a great number of health organizations set up by rich people or dedicated groups.
The initial work was done by Robert Goddard, and government involvement was minimal. His work was not expensive.
Except for what caused the hypothetical God.
This is theoretically true only in a pure democracy, and nowhere true in practice. Not everyone is part of the government, not even all adults.
Freedom of speech and press is telling the President he's an asshole. Freedom of expression is masturbating in front of a group of first-graders on a playground. It's no surprise that a progressive doesn't know the difference.
You changed the subject from "wrong" to "works".
With regard to the creation of the United States, it was a reaction to the initiation of violence by Britain. Initiating violence against the innocent is always wrong.
Many places it is not legal to ride a bike on the sidewalk.
In 1975, both power and efficiency were crippled by the same laws that the manufacturers did not yet have the technology to accommodate.
Crash because you didn't have enough acceleration to merge into highway traffic from the entrance ramp? You only have to have inadequate power once to understand that you need more. For most people, high horsepower is not needed for routine use.
In my experience, cars with less than 1 horsepower per 15 pounds of weight are a danger to everyone on the road.
The 1965 Mustang was about 2570 pounds with a straight-6, 3000 pounds with a fully-loaded V8.
So that's why they have air bags in race cars? Oh wait ... they don't, they have racing harnesses. Cars have air bags because consumers won't put up with the inconvenience of a superior safety system.
Tech stuff - electronics and other such fluff - don't weigh all that much. Heavy features include a stiffer body and more soundproofing.
Have you ever driven a US car made in the 1950s ? Creaks and rattles and a feeling that the seats, the steering wheel, the body, and the tires were connected with rubber bands. Modern cars are solid feeling, and that feeling is achieved with better engineering and bigger parts in relation to the car's size.
In 1970, U.S. car manufacturers were still using "advertised horsepower", which did not have a mathematical relationship to actual horsepower.
If you have a 100% efficient engine, then the fuel used is entirely independent of the engine's power; the fuel use is determined by factors external to the engine (drag and drivetrain efficiency).
You missed the sarcasm.
Are you serious about your user name, "Austerity Empowers"? That's just evil.
The most damage done to roads, far exceeding the portion of taxes they pay, is done by heavy vehicles, not passenger cars.