Borrowing for a car is becoming normalized in my country, but what’s wrong with just buying a €5-10k car outright? My SO and I have spent a grand total of €12500 on purchasing 3 separate vehicles in about a decade.
I drive a relatively new electric car for work that is a job perk, but if I wouldn’t I’d just driving to work in our little Mazda 2.
There is no single part of my house I even want to spend the average new car price on (€43k). That’s retire a year early money.
Because robots are better than humans.
This is the tech bro answer, but at some point there is no point to enjoy humans to do tasks anymore.
Until then automation will just increase profits roughly within legal limits.
Well, yeah. There are guidelines for new infrastructure, but that doesn’t mean everything is up to date everywhere. There are roads that haven’t been resurfaced for quite a while that aren’t up to date. But on the whole it is very similar everywhere.
It’s only a small country though.
There is a Canadian YouTuber who lives in Amsterdam who makes videos about it: http://YouTube.com/notjustbikes I’ve lived here all my life so it’s nice to get an outside perspective on this all.
This post isn’t about open borders, it’s about the contrast in bicycle and road infrastructure between the Netherlands and other countries. The open border was just the setup.
The Netherlands has very specific urban/rural (re)design standards which are quite recognizable if you know them.
I’m not arguing what the market ought to be like. I just don’t agree with your definitions.
No, it’s not. A monopoly is a market situation in which a single entity controls the supply of a product or service. A government can be a monopolist. For instance in many countries the government owns the railway company.
You’re describing regulation. That’s a whole different topic.
A monopoly is not when a technology is more popular than another technology.
Ninja edit: Nevermind, I completely misunderstood the comment I responded to.
Ninja edit: Nevermind, I completely misunderstood the comment I responded to.
What else can the EU do? They can’t force an American company to follow EU regulation outside of the EU.
Edit: oh damn I read your comment wrong. I read it as “It’s pretty sad that the EU seems to only care about the privacy of its own citizens.” To that I’d say get your own regulation, but that’s exactly what you called for. Nvm then.
83 degrees Celsius is too hot in any month
Spaghetti is an Asian-Native American fusion dish.
I thought that was what intended by the author.
I was about to jump in. But yeah… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withering_away_of_the_state
That’s quite a narrow definition of politics. I’d say anything that humans do that is perceived by others to be part of a social structure that maintains or challenges social norms and power relations is political.
Only if veganism itself becomes something nobody would challenge (like health is better than death, breathing is important) or if you are the last person on earth you can become the first apolitical vegan.
Penny wise pound foolish. The only way not to go through the paper is to go through the rolls.