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I live in Washington DC, and even though carjacking is a problem here, not to a degree that people plan on it happening to them. I would be surprised if OP's situation took place i…

Six of the eleven times... Crazy. What city was this, if you don't mind me asking?

What city was this, if you don't mind me asking?

I'm confused. Counterfeit goods are clearly bad and a problem, but knockoffs that aren't counterfeit seem to be a good thing from an economics perspective, right? A knockoff that i…

> "The idea that inflation and the money supply are linked is one of the most dumb one in folk economics" "folk economics" implies it is by untrained people. Milton Friedman's famo…

No one owns a nonprofit, so your analogy is fundamentally incorrect and based on a misunderstanding of how nonprofits work. It is actually extremely important that no one “owns” a …

There is a reason standing exists. We don't want a society where anyone can litigate the ill-defined "important questions of society" at will. I agree with you that this is an impo…

I concur. I found this discussion on the phrase very enlightening and aided both my understanding of the idiom and how I should use it in the future.