Condolences.

I'd assume that anyone posting in the Pittsburgh subreddit lives in or around Pittsburgh and not out in Possum Rib, PA. If you live in one of those benighted places where Walmart destroyed all the competition a long time ago then you have my sympathies.

> Wow you need to get outside and off of Reddit more, my dude.

 

Costco, definitely a Reddit phenomenon.
 
> do you even hear the classism in your tone there

 
I don't particularly care, Walmart is garbage and anyone with options avoids it like the plague.
 
Aldi will be cheaper for you than Walmart and better in every way that matters.

Costco. Walmart sells garbage and anyone with options doesn't step foot in Walmart.

I do most of my grocery shopping at Aldi. We have a special produce delivery thing because I don't need to cut corners on what we eat.

 
Outside of groceries, Walmart sells absolute garbage that's specially made for them and falls apart pretty quickly. I'd never buy anything there I intend to keep for any period of time.

I grew up in a town where Walmart executed that strategy in the 1990s. Built a superstore ~1995 right outside town, and once everything on the main drag shut down all their prices got jacked way up. It doesn't have anything to do with the current state of inflation, that's their decades-long strategy.

Walmart is only cheap in that period of time before they destroy all the other businesses around them.

General Electric is basically a financial company now because they just didn't make enough money being General Electric.

Sounds like a great way to get shot around here

Vincent's Pizza Park produces pizza superior to Caliente's in every way.

Do you rage out regularly about other things you can't afford?
 
The Turnpike is self-supporting. Your tax dollars don't go towards it. Quit crying about it already.

Gas tax money doesn't go towards the turnpike. They're entirely separate from PennDOT.

 
No one owes you cheap or free roads. If you don't like what the product costs, don't buy it.

"You don't have to buy that thing you're raging out about costing too much."
"Boot licker!"

 
You people have some bizarre brain damage when it comes to the turnpike. You aren't owed free / cheap roads everywhere. If you don't like what the product costs, don't buy it.

If people don't want to pay the tolls, they don't have to take the turnpike. No one's forcing them to.

Expecting other people to suffer because you can't plan ahead. Cringe.

> I'd chalk Japan's lost decades up to too much micromanaging by the Bank of Japan,

 
Read the book, the entire issue started when the Chicago School guys came back and said BoJ meddled too much that they had to move to a "free market" solution since those were the only thing that worked. Whoops!
https://www.amazon.com/Princes-Yen-Central-Bankers-Transformation/dp/0765610493
 
Prior to the 1980s Japan had basically a command economy pointed towards producing consumer goods.

The existing calculator won't show us what the fees used to be, and a $15K to $255K jump is an insane claim.

Economics exists as a "science" to backfill an explanation for what the capital-holding classes want to do anyway. You know that and I know that.
 
My favorite economics story is from the book Princes of the Yen, wherein Japan sent their youngest and brightest minds to Chicago to learn economics, and they took what they learned there and trashed the Japanese economy for over three decades and counting. Good stuff.

> Ever take an economics class?

Ah, economics, the "science" that assumes everyone is a perfectly rational actor that does exactly what is best for themselves every single time.

> Eh, if the prices they point out are remotely accurate,

 
This is basically an opinion piece and I don't believe the numbers that get thrown around on this shit any more than I believe the guy on WTAE a few months back who claimed that he saved $3000 dollars by driving to Ohio to fill his truck with thirty cent cheaper gas.
 
People lie, all the time, and journalists in this country abdicated their responsibility to do journalism a long time ago.

> Dilles Bottom

nice

Seethe.

> We both know you know it’s illegal.

 
Then call the cops over it, you big fucking crybaby. Call the cops and tell them you're big mad about a cyclist that delayed you by 18 seconds three days ago.
 
Or just keep seething, either option is funny to me.

The issue here is that I don't think he thinks about it at all. The issue here is "someone is going faster than I am/passing me and that's unfair and makes me big mad."

 
You see that sort of behavior on the Parkway West going towards Robinson all the time. People will speed and weave through traffic to get to the front of the pack and stay there. Just their lizard brain screaming "I HAVE TO BE FIRST" at them.

 
Arguing about the legality of it is just window dressing to make his temper tantrum sound reasonable.

Keep seething.