Hat tip Jack M.
A guy looked at my Corvette the other day and said I wonder how many people could have been fed for the money that sports car cost.
I replied I am not sure, it fed a lot of families in Bowling Green, Kentucky who built it, it fed the people who make the tires, it fed the people who made the components that went into it, it fed the people in the copper mine who mined the copper for the wires, it fed people in Decatur IL, at Caterpillar who make the trucks that haul the copper ore.
It fed the trucking people who hauled it from the plant to the dealer and fed the people working at the dealership and their families.
BUT,… I have to admit, I guess I really don’t know how many people it fed.
That is the difference between capitalism and welfare mentality. When you buy something, you put money in people’s pockets, and give them dignity for their skills. When you give someone something for nothing, you rob them of their dignity and self worth.
Capitalism is freely giving your money in exchange for something of value. Socialism is taking your money against your will and shoving something down your throat that you never asked for.
It also fed the welfare state through forced taxation and t(h)rough it, mouth breathers like the guy who asked the question.
Next question.
Socialized or privatized, all ‘wealth’ like this hunk of junk is pure waste. It doesn’t produce anything but pollution. It’s a one-way trip to entropy-ville. When all the fuels burned by the thing and in the making of the thing are gone, they’re gone forever.
chubby….it is history, evolution, the road that humanity travels; a slice of time that will be remembered, for it was the best of times.
Take your enviro bullshit elsewhere.
Remembered by whom?
Are you really serious in thinking your kids are going to thank you for killing off the plants and animals and oceans? Do you not realize the planet is becoming uninhabitable due to industrial activity of all kinds? Today. Not in some far-off future.
Chub,
If you want to blame someone? Try these:
*Monsanto super weed killer for Agra business, GMO food.
*MIC for depleted uranium (waste) weapons, weapons testing
on 3rd-4rth world nations, (lasers and phosphorous bombs).
*World-wide food delivery…grow it here and package it there (China),
then send it back “technology.”
*Cross-country trucking of food rather than local growing, (including
under-light heated greenhouses)…lotsa fuel used.
*The administration’s super jets (in duplicate and triplicate) flying
double time.
*Aerial spraying of nano-metalic-fake clouds/weather control/people
murdering planes, using fuel.
Okay, sorry, enough. Leave the little guy and his little car alone.
Meanwhile, make an extra dinner casserole next time you cook.
Share it with a neighbor…you will have fed someone.
@Chubs – Wrong. We will always be able to power vehicles like this. It may turn into the ultimate display of luxury, but I assure you that if there is a demand for gas powered muscle cars there will always be said devices.
You morons act like its that hard to make gasoline from other sources. Expensive, yes, but not that difficult.
One of my neighbors took a crummy rusted old small Ford
truck and re-did it. A hobby, and he has done others, really
spiffy vehicles. He uses depleted cooking oil as fuel…all part
of his art/or hobby, if you prefer.
Chubby,
I suppose you drive a Yugo?
a 2009 Subaru. I would rather have a 4×4 Panda.
I’d rather not have to drive at all. I like Kunstler’s ride, though.. the junker being towed by a horse. Horses are renewable.
My point remains: that the faster we turn things into waste, the worse our future looks. I don’t see how this statement is remarkable or reprehensible in any way.
It’s just a physical and mathematical fact. Demographics. Thermodynamics. Of our earthly home, we’re burning the furniture and the rugs and the curtains. Turning the living into the dead. Paving paradise to put up parking lots. You all know it. It just hurts to recognize it.
Spoken like a man who has never driven a team.
Hopefully you’re joking here.You want pollution,think about all the crap produced by the animals in these cities along with the attendant smell,bugs and disease.
It will produce full employment though-we will need a lot of crap shovelers.
You got em. It’s called congress.
1.2 BILLION cars on the road today and you think replacing them with horses is a good solution?? Let’s not even address replacing tractors, combines and threshers. Of course if we did we would produce about one 64th or less food that we do currently. And half of that will have to feed all the renewable horsies!
I wonder how many horsies it would take to pull a 53 foot trailer up Grapevine???
I’m sure the subsequent starvation of the majority of the earth’s population would fit right in to your earth first philosophy, as long as your tree hugging ass wasn’t one of the unlucky billions.
Any more grand solutions?
SMFH!
I like Corvettes. I especially like passing them on the road course.
Be prepared to spend an awful lot of money then.
Even 4X the price against even the lowest HP Corvette and you’ll probably still lose.
I won’t even bother mentioning the Z0-6 which cost a third of some of the cars here, and will easily outlap the #1 car here.
Even the Camaro is a match for the $1M Porsche 918
http://gmauthority.com/blog/2014/10/2014-chevrolet-camaro-z28-often-outpaced-the-porsche-918-at-cd-lightning-lap/
Poisoned Marxist thinking: taking from the Kulaks and giving to the Useful Idiots is progress (for the Communist until there are no more Kulaks). If the money is used to feed pigs (instead of the FSA), at least it would not be wasted.
I agree that increased human population is a bad idea, so I’m not with the guy in the post who wants to feed the world.
who cares what you agree with—go back and watch Leo Dicaprio’s movie for the 10th time
excellent reply
Not only did it provide good jobs 4 the people who built it but the multiplier 4 those jobs is much higher than 4 the jobs involved in feeding those people.
Speaking of the jobs that are created by the production of that car,here is a great essay on the subject.
Many of you have probably read it but here it is for the guys who have not.
I,Pencil
http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html
I saw that making the rounds on Linked In last week. I thought it was funny and doubted whether it actually happened.