Wix is falling off my list of good filter brands

Hersbird said
slantsixdan said

the poor, carefully trained by the wealthy, will babble and scream so loudly about bootstraps and liberals and socialism and godless communism and whatnot that nothing will change except the wealthy get wealthier and the poor get poorer and more numerous.

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maybe someday we can export liberalism there to kill their economy as well!

Annnnd…voila!

(Srsly, c'mon, let's keep it real and keep a sense of perspective. It's a pisser how it's getting harder to buy American-made air filters and distributor caps and light bulbs and stuff, but that's all it is. It doesn't mean America's economy is dead. In fact, America's economy is bigger now than it's ever been.)

you get tired of jumping through government regulations, leagal minefields, and political activism just to face a lazy, entitled labor pool (…) Someday this all will pan out, Chinese people will gain more and more standards of living

"Standard of living" is a quick, convenient way of saying once people aren't completely focused on scraping up enough money to stay alive, they start wanting things like air clean enough to breathe, water clean enough to drink, safe workplaces and cars and homes, and all that other stuff that costs money so doesn't happen without regulations forcing the rich to take somewhat less advantage of the poor.