Thats weird, it almost feels like a misalignment between our general needs for computing resource development, and the incentive structures produced by using capitalist economic markets to distribute even basic goods for survival…

(raises hand) It was me, I did.

Hmm! I feel like this helps explain rural areas in my state that seem to be doing pretty well, despite being in counties with some of the lowest household incomes. Been kind of wondering about this for a while actually, but hadn’t really thought about it I guess~

It’s because state-level analysis is misleading, it masks disparities within states. The state-level analysis can be seen as a weighted average between rural and urban areas, for example.

How do american consumers keep trucks like this out?

I mean by not buying the imports, but at the same time it’s hard to ignore the impact of not having them visible/available for purchase, decades of cultural engineering related to the auto industry here, etc.

Not sure they belong on this list next to entities that actively craft market conditions to benefit american auto makers (and themselves) financially.

Doesn’t mean it’s not a nightmare, and that doing it with a car wouldn’t be easier. Try doing this with two toddlers one day, lol, I promise you it’s not as easy as watching someone else do it.