Ah, conservatives. I remember some conservative think tank back in the earlier days of the internet released an article praising the Star Wars Empire for being

Ah, conservatives. I remember some conservative think tank back in the earlier days of the internet released an article praising the Star Wars Empire for being stable, merit-base, and probably something about trains running on time. Of course cars have utility, but it is my precise critique of economics that it is unable to quantify and thus account for environmental damage that makes it so ineffective for anything beyond a couple years. Of course the economist is totally oblivious. Economics loves dropping these little "practical common sense" articles "gee howdy did you ever think about that, or a smashed window not being fixed?" while the tools and political structure/influence of economics is used to keep the rich rich, the poor even poorer, and of course lead us on a path to destruction that the great economic minds of the day can offer no real solutions to avert. Here's how this article should have gone: Paragraph 1: a summation of the usefulness of the car, which can quite succinctly be summarized in a paragraph. Ok, add two for the amazing technological and scientific basis of the it. Okay, then you start with BUT... and show you are not completely ignorant of the world.