The above was going on about how successful private school kids were getting into college and what not. That is what my post is addressing, it's not the private schools doing this, it's the wealth level of the kids going there.

Most of these schools are religious schools filling these kids heads with anti scientific nonsense. A lot of them dont even teach evolution. It's not the schools doing this.

Yes, that's exactly my point.

We were still world leaders in innovation in the 80's and 90's when this first started happening though. Some of the biggest companies in American today either didn't exist or were a tiny fraction of their current selves when this was first happening.

It's crazy how we're both affluent and the most car oriented culture in the world and yet for almost half a century our auto manufacturers have basically ceded most of the global market as well as a significant part of the American to Asian companies. Tesla had a good thing going for a bit but then Musk put it on autopilot to go into politics and now they're playing catchup in a world where Musk has managed to piss everyone off.

For how innovative our country can be in general our car companies really just suck. They're like the game publisher EA coasting on their sports titles with our auto company's addiction to making oversized vehicles only a segment of Americans buy when they could be so much more.

Why are you sounding off like you're knowledgeable on something you clearly aren't familiar with?

It doesnt matter if the kids are going to public or private schools, on average kids from affluent families do MUCH better in school then kids in poor families https://ballardbrief.byu.edu/i... . The difference is dramatic.

No, that was a typo. Someone already brought this up in a reply before yours. I was referring to the percent of Brits with licenses.

On average I could see that as we're a very spread out country. Our major urban areas have far more drivers on the road at any given moment though.

Also, driving behavior varies by where you are in the US. The North East is known for its aggressive drivers where as where I live in Northern California the drivers are almost too polite to the point that they'll violate right of way rules and create roads hazards just to be nice and create a spot for you to merge in for instance.

The last example is super annoying too as since they arent following the rules of the road the person they are trying to help then has to figure what the heck they are doing which generally creates more delays then if they had just followed the rules of the road and driven by. This happens to me once or twice a month where I live but would almost never happen in the North East.

The funny thing here is that going by your post it seems that you know you're the problem but don't care. I'd have felt a little empathy for you if you had told me the two bannings were freak events but all you're doing here is claiming entitlement to act like a twat.

Turns out what you say and do has repercussions in this world.

And that's great you're engaging in that ridiculousness.

And yet these operations stay in business. Turns out plenty of people still carry cash and like saving a buck.

In other words, if their actions were as stupid as you're making out they'd be out of business.

Higher prices deter business. Now their prices will be more expensive relative to major chain locations as those are able to negotiate far lower fees for card charges

I'm sure any small business' you shop at would prefer you use cash. They get charged out the ass whenever you use your card.

I use cash at the barber I go to as well as some other small business' I use so they don't lose the several percentage points their card service charges them. One Banh mi shop I go to cash is the only way to pay. I also use it at weed dispensaries as they typically pass on the crazy high fees their instate card service charges for using their service. I also always have cash on hand for tips and just odd scenarios where any form of electronic transfer isnt convenient. I also occasionally have to bail friends out of random scenarios who have stopped carrying cash.

I don't listen to podcasts but this sounds like what happened in the 00's when the TV networks went all in on reality TV and significantly reduced the amount of scripted content they produced to save money. This is when I got rid of my cable.

Yeah, I made a typo.

Never mind my post then. As I suggested as a possibility, I wasn't well informed.