Talcosis

Probably.

Could you get it registered and get plates for it? Probably not.

Couldn’t she just tell the ambulance company to get their money from their corpse?

Die in debt, folks. Just make sure your family remembers not to accept that debt.

You’d have a lot fewer engineers, scientists, doctors, and lawyers. Pretty much anyone with half-decent money management and enough income to not live paycheck to paycheck in the western world makes the global 1% in their lifetime. That’s only about a mil in total assets.

Median american (so probably not the four careers I listed) will earn ~2mil in their lifetime.

Any given population is approximately 30% highly authoritarian. Their behaviors can be summarized as:

1. high degree of submission to established, legitimate authorities in their society
2. high levels of aggression in the name of said authorities
3. a high level of conventionalism Often, a high authoritarian individual can be identified with the following question: To what degree should society be dictated by authority? Low and medium authoritarian people will both answer “not at all”, while highly authoritarian people will say something like “an average amount”. This illustrates the need to be normal in their lives. The need to see oneself as average.

So, one of the most effective ways to prevent this is for highly authoritarian people to see others acting in defiance of authority, as well as interacting with other, non-authoritarian people. Basically showing that continuous submission to authority is not the only way to live a normal life.

https://theauthoritarians.org/

I feel intimidated to talk about it as well, because —how do you even talk to someone about any of this?

The problem with “both sides” is that it doesn’t really fit the perception of most people. The upper leadership is very much “both sides”, and the majority of the policies are also “both sides” as a result. However, most people aren’t interacting with Nancy Pelosi on a daily basis. The nice old lady down the street who volunteers for the democratic party and bakes cookies is pretty apparently not the same as the dude in a lifted pickup with a maga flag and a gun rack. The closest most people are gonna get to a “both sides” democrat is going to be the local mayor, in a community of 20k+.

I don’t really have an easy answer. ACAB ran into similar issues, but the nature of police work is routinely and publicly violent. That made it much more readily apparent.