Slack jawed yokles, GM and Wal*Mart
Someone told me today that they had seen this problem with Chevy Cavaliers before and that i will cost about $1000 to fix. Considering all the other problems that my car has, it is barely worth $1000. So technically my car might be totalled. I plan on fixing it myself for less than $75.
As Americans we are being raped repeatedly by companies like GM and WalMart. They make shitty, unreliable products because they know that we are so stupid that we will not only buy the products, but that we will go back and give them more money to fix (or most likely replace) the product when it breaks.
Fuck our society.
I have had experience working on motors. I grew up on a farm. I worked on trucks and farm equipment. I know what a vehicle needs to go down the road and cars today are build with so much extraneous bullshit under the hood simply to deter the do-it-yourselfer from screwing multinational corporations out of $200. Its ridiculous. And all of the new car-tracking technology that has recently come to light is simply another rapist in our societal gang-bang. Car companies have instilled a fear in people so that no one will buy a car unless it has all of the papers detailing every oil change and tune-up the car has ever undergone. This does two things:
1) Facilitates a need to take your car to the dealership and plunk down a good $30 every 3000 miles for something that you could easily do with a driveway, rag, jack, wrench, $10 and 30 minutes.
2) Causes a shortage of "safe" cars (ones that have all of these records of each time the owner was taken advantage of) therefore encouraging more people to buy new cars instead.
Its a very well orchestrated and, quite frankly, beautiful scam. I envy the minds of the geniuses that concieved such a thought. They have created a society of people that needlessly throw money at them and it is all just viewed as normal; as OK. No one notices that something is wrong. It is bullshit that is so blatant that no one seems to smell it. It is just the status quo.
WalMart makes a TV. Overseas. Using laborers that it pays much less than our minimum wage. The TV is then shipped over here, some modifications or finishing touches may be added to it so that it can proudly wear the tag that denotes that it was made with pride in the USA. This then attracts a congregation of mullet-adorned yokles that will then buy the TV and take it home to put between their Dale Sr. commemorative plates. They will enjoy the TV for perhaps a year or two and then it will break. Instead of realizing that a TV should last longer than that or attempting to fix it, it will simply be trashed and they will return to the very same WalMart and buy a new one.
And no one even notices.
As Americans we are being raped repeatedly by companies like GM and WalMart. They make shitty, unreliable products because they know that we are so stupid that we will not only buy the products, but that we will go back and give them more money to fix (or most likely replace) the product when it breaks.
Fuck our society.
I have had experience working on motors. I grew up on a farm. I worked on trucks and farm equipment. I know what a vehicle needs to go down the road and cars today are build with so much extraneous bullshit under the hood simply to deter the do-it-yourselfer from screwing multinational corporations out of $200. Its ridiculous. And all of the new car-tracking technology that has recently come to light is simply another rapist in our societal gang-bang. Car companies have instilled a fear in people so that no one will buy a car unless it has all of the papers detailing every oil change and tune-up the car has ever undergone. This does two things:
1) Facilitates a need to take your car to the dealership and plunk down a good $30 every 3000 miles for something that you could easily do with a driveway, rag, jack, wrench, $10 and 30 minutes.
2) Causes a shortage of "safe" cars (ones that have all of these records of each time the owner was taken advantage of) therefore encouraging more people to buy new cars instead.
Its a very well orchestrated and, quite frankly, beautiful scam. I envy the minds of the geniuses that concieved such a thought. They have created a society of people that needlessly throw money at them and it is all just viewed as normal; as OK. No one notices that something is wrong. It is bullshit that is so blatant that no one seems to smell it. It is just the status quo.
WalMart makes a TV. Overseas. Using laborers that it pays much less than our minimum wage. The TV is then shipped over here, some modifications or finishing touches may be added to it so that it can proudly wear the tag that denotes that it was made with pride in the USA. This then attracts a congregation of mullet-adorned yokles that will then buy the TV and take it home to put between their Dale Sr. commemorative plates. They will enjoy the TV for perhaps a year or two and then it will break. Instead of realizing that a TV should last longer than that or attempting to fix it, it will simply be trashed and they will return to the very same WalMart and buy a new one.
And no one even notices.
posted by Seth Parham at 12:44 PM
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