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On 3/5/24 17:12, David Lesher wrote:
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/03/05/formula-one-road-track-kate-wagner/>
So this piece appeared on Road & Track's website briefly before it vanished.
BUT too late, because Brewster Kahle had scooped it up.
It's fun to speculate who exactly was so offended by it that is was Disappeared.
<https://web.archive.org/web/20240301170542/https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a46975496/behind-f1-velvet-curtain/>
I found it an enjoyable read.
(
I do not know why, this seems to have a bug in it that has lost
everything 3 times when I have hit send. I'll try again. Sorry for
errors.)
Thank you for providing us that.
However, I found it mostly irritating.
"If you wanted to turn someone into a socialist you could do it in about
an hour by taking them for a spin around the paddock of a Formula 1
race. The kind of money I saw will haunt me forever."
She thinks viewing ostentatious wealth will turn a person from economic freedom, and capitalistic free enterprise into socialists. I think
most people after viewing Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, will
disagree. There are reasons that in the last 5 years 7.5 million
people have swarmed into the USA.
"We know there is a class system in America, a great divide between the
haves and have-nots. To be a have-not and be talked to by the haves has
an air of the farcical to it."
No, there is not. There is a spread, with many constantly moving up,
and many moving down. But the averages are regularly moving up.
Adam Smith's unseen hand moving through the world's market have
made most well fed and equipped.
"The corporate entity in question was Mercedes-AMG sponsor INEOS, the petrochemical company. Not exactly the kind of institution a
bicycle-loving, card-carrying socialist wants to get involved with."
That show her bias clearly. Her mind was made up before she even started.
Why mess with observations when the mind is closed?
In motorsports F1 is the epitome of competitive capitalism. Winners
are allowed to win. Is anyone here advocating that F1 make a rule
that puts a 8 pound penalty on a car for each race they win?
How about making the Concorde payments to each team equal?
How about making them all use the same chassis?
"I learned that I'm the kind of person who would rather be right than
happy, would rather stand in my ivory tower than frolic in the fields
below. I experienced firsthand the intended effect of allowing riffraff
like me, those who distinguish themselves by way of words alone, to
mingle with the giants of capitalism and their cultural attachés."
The young lady who seems proud of being unable to drive,
is quite disparaging of people who develop wealth. She will most likely continue to think of herself as 'righter' than most people in the world.
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