Nah, the attitude expressed here makes the water utility less money, and hence makes no sense in the US.

Why would they shut off your power? You’d be paying for the extra power being delivered to you, right? Why would they care what you did with it?

And regardless, that’s a far cry from it being illegal.

But that’s not the question I was asked. Answering the question I was asked doesn’t make my answer a strawman.

I don’t think that word means what you think it means.

of or characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes.

“a rich, bored, bourgeois family”

You dislike the middle class?

Corruption is no more likely in capitalism than in any other system.

Every system has flaws, to be sure - e.g. in Saudi Arabia, which is as anticapitalist as possible due to the government owning everything, all wealth is concentrated in the monarch - and capitalism is no exception. My answer to you has to be specific to certain types of goods, because for other types, capitalism will absolutely fail in the manner you describe and needs government regulation not to.

In this context, I will use “fail” to mean the failure you asked about, only 1 wealthy person.

Example where capitalism will generally not fail, and, in fact, has never failed in recorded history: restaurants. If our mysterious wealthy person attempts to own every restaurant simultaneously, someone else will open a rival restaurant and the plan will fail (and even if somehow no one could open a rival anywhere, people could choose to eat at home). No one in any country has ever managed to own every restaurant at once.

Example where capitalism will absolutely fail over time: oil. It is trivial, given enough time, for one person to eventually own all access to oil - Rockefeller is a great example of someone working hard at this, successfully.

That’s not true at all. Capitalism has many flaws, but your claim is simply false.

I’m guessing you’re conflating capitalism with the deeply non-capitalist legal structures that have been erected on top of it in most of the world. One of the most common examples is corporate welfare, which is exactly as capitalist as welfare for private citizens. I’m not trying to attack or defend welfare with this statement, but I am emphasizing that that’s not how capitalism works.

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Reclusive houses may or may not be recluse houses, you have to check.

Do not buy a recluse house unless you love spiders.

Year, not years: your 5 year old is 5 years old.

You think OP isn’t a Windows 10 user? Why?

The article you linked doesn’t say what you claim it says. It discusses a 25moh car hitting a pedestrian, which is wildly different from a true 25mph impact in general, because most pedestrians will try to dodge.

Humans can’t survive being hit by a car at 25 mph.

The primary purpose of most speed limits is tax revenue, which is why most speed limits are not based on safety evidence. The local authorities just tweak the limits to maximize profits.

Ukraine coverage has gone down significantly.

Lola Bunny’s a babe.

OP, never post xkcd or smbc without including the alt-text (and for smbc, the votey).

The Fujita Scale was replaced by the Enhanced Fujita Scale in 2007, but I think ‘EF-5’ sounds stupid, so I vote we just use the new measurements for assigning numbers but still call them ‘F-whatever’.

Gross, who let the Hexbearian in here? Now we have to fumigate.