I saw another model where the PE buys a hospital. They sell the land under the hospital, everyone gets a cut, then they spin out the hospital. Now the hospital has to pay rent on the land it sits on.

It seems like almost every decision made is for short term gain, at the cost of long term viability.

The diesel particulate filter (DPF) forces the engine to burn more fuel periodically in order to burn off the particles in the filter. The net result is more CO2 than would be produced ordinarily.

I watched some farming videos, and the farmers calculate the hourly cost of their combine, it's in the 100's of dollars per hour. They hate it when the engine goes into the regen cycle, and they are forced to let the engine run.

I used to enjoy going to them too. I remember price comparing though, and thinking that stuff seemed too expensive. Fry's started to seem run down over time.

They are a little bit like a sales tax, except only for things not made in this country.

It seems to me that risk pooling kind of negates of the intent of insurance, ie. to spread out risk.