Struck a nerve to the point you pulled a stanza out one of my poems. The owners of the company are bozos on a couple of levels. Over priced impractical pieces of crap designed to do nothing but make the owners of the company rich. Other than being used to say "hey look at the money I have to waste on crap I really don't need" just to say "hey look at me", what exactly are they providing humanity other than status symbols? How are they helping humanity with providing cheaper transportation for those without millions and billions? How are they getting the planet away from impractacticle gas hogs? Tell me what a sports car does for humanity? Now at least Tesla is trying to build invironmentally friendly sports cars.

Oh I get everyone needs to eat, it isn't the workers who are bozos but the owners of the company. They are the assholes who are too lazy to improve humanity by making transporatation affordable to everyone and. Much easier for them to get rich selling needless crap to other rich people.

Macbeth Act 5 Scene 5 and Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot speech, is what you don't get. 

The problem of low wages/high prices is due to overpopulation/limited natural resources. Swallow the red pill.

Leftist economics is everyone suffering the same because of this. Right wing economics is the poor should suffer, middle class works its ass off to get by and few rich take advantage of the situation.

So pick your poison arsenic or cyanide, left wing or right wing, democract or republican. But always stay on the blue pills the media feeds you.

Yep, self centered obnoxious ignorance annoys me. 

But you aren't. You have everything figured out. 

I'm not an expert on cars, but many technological innovations in the car you drive today was first designed and tested on luxury cars of the past. I do know that Lamborghini was invented because Mr. Lamborghini was unhappy with the quality of the clutch in the Ferrari. Other conveniences like heated seats, individual temperature controls, power doors, remote start, gps and probably many of the internals that I know little about started in luxury cars and are now available in many middle class level sedans.

Wealthy people paying ridiculous prices for new technology creates the capital required to build factories that eventually put those items into mass production and thus, affordable to us peons. The same way that the computer you are on now can be purchased for a few hundred dollars while 30 years ago a computer of much lower quality costed many thousands and was a luxury toy for the rich and nerdy or an expensive tool for the businessman who wanted to impress.

Have a cell phone? They used to be so impractical that the only real reason to have one was as a status symbol- watch some early 90's movie and the car cell phone is always in some fancy car of a wealthy businessman. Now everyone and their 10 year old has one. In the meantime, the millions of people who invent, build, test and sell those things make a living. 

What are you doing to improve humanity exactly? 

Not going to go there buddy. You are the one with the attitude that the only measure of a human is to become a title or paycheck. Someone sold you the bullshit to "make a name for yourself". Now you are baiting me with a question I don't meausere myself by. 

I will tell what I have been doing every day since 01. I have been on line, spreading advocating the values of skepicism and science and education. I have everyday been debating religion and challinging it. On top of 20 years of writing poetry even prior. Now somehow you think all that requires some sort of monetary meausre or title for me to contribute?

You want to put me on a spreadsheet but humans cannot be put on spreadsheets. Keep watching/or reading Sagan's Pale Blue Dot speech, until you get it. 

 No you are not, you are projecting what was sold to you onto others. There is no universal standard other than life is diverse and humans are diverse. You however mesuare that worth in very superfical ways. I will never be impressed with what you own or what you wear or where you live or how much you make. The earth was around long before you were born and it will be arround long after we die. 

I would however shit a brick and be very impressed if you ever learn that.

Hmmm, well don't compare these extremely expensive high tech, state of the art, hand made, high performance machines to other luxury vehicles of the past. Things like variable speed windshield wipers, power windows, power steering, power brakes and AC all came from normal every day cars in America, Britain, Germany and France. Later Japan would be included in that circle of innovators. 

Buick is a good example along with some other car companies (Cadillac, Packard, Lincoln and Tucker to name a few), some of which do not exist today. So don't group stuff like Ferrari and Lamborghini as being the one and only innovators of the current tech we now take for granted. There are tons of innovations which came from America and from family sedans long before they were used in those high priced cars.

Well I'm a car guy and I can point to which inventor and what car line it was introduced on and I can tell you the innovations from American luxury sedans, like Caddies and Buick, Tucker and Packard all greatly outweight any thing done in the early stages of European luxury cars. Yes, they had innovations too, but of them all BMW and VW are tops on my list.

Also if you didn't know it, Lambo's and Ferrari's were racers at first. They didn't really get in to those high tech, luxury models until the 60's. Early models were strickly racing circuit cars and weren't made for driving to dinner parties or around town shopping.

Still not getting it. If anyone is self centered it is you. Obviously I am important enough for you to start a thread about in order to demonize someone who doesn't see status as the center of the universe. See Sagan's Pale Blue Dot speech, repeat until you actualy do get it. 

What hypocrisy? No dumbass, I have been completely consistent. My problem is not all wealth. My problem is attitude. The world has enough wealthy people and many of them DO do good. But the climate is simply not there currently to be helpfull to our species. It is about propfit, and it is leading to more polution and it is dragging us down. You may find cheap labor the key to gobal competition, I do not. I see it as distructive and a race to the bottom.

No vainity on my part. I don't post pictures of objects that amount to status symbols, I merely responded to you. You feel flattered? And you want to call me vain? If I liked pot, I'd ask you for some because it must be some really good shit you are smoking.

I just purchased lunch at the grocery store and got a coffee for $1.49 (free refills), rather than putting it in the Salvation Army tin outside.  Is that self-centered enough to put me in the Lamborghini crowd?

Beyond is pretty accurate here. There are a number of industries that prove it. Including the one I know more about than most people: gaming. 

The gaming industry is rather perfect to use as a microcosm for any other. When a new console comes out, it is too expensive for the average person to buy. It literally costs the console manufacturer more money to sell it than they make back, even if you include royalties and licensing fees.  

The last two Nintendo consoles are an exception, but considering the fact that Nintendo hasn't been a serious competitor since about 1995, that doesn't really mean anything. 

The first XBox never made money. When it was discontinued, MS' ledger was in the red. The 360 console took a good two years to start making money. The XBox 1 is still in the red.  

Sony is no different. They didn't bully and buy their way in the way MS did, so they never took as big of a hit. But the whole reason they crushed Nintendo and Sega was because they offered licensing at a ridiculous discount, and practically every third party developer jumped to them as a result. Worse for Sony is that most of their hardware was proprietary. They actually designed and manufactured many of the parts in their consoles, while MS bought parts off the shelf and slapped them together. Both of these strategies together cost billions in revenue. The first resulted in massive profits in the long run, but the second was only viable until MS entered the market. 

The PS1 took 3 or 4 years to start making money. It wasn't really until they released the miniaturised version of the console that they were in the black. The PS2 made money faster, but it didn't have any competition for 2 years. It took those two years for the console to realise profit, even without competition. Simply because of all the R&D that went into the emotion engine and everything else. The PS3 took a good 3 or 4 years because they had competition before they even released the console. It took them 6 or 7 years to surpass XBox 360 sales and continue their winning streak. The PS4 is in the same boat as the XBox 1, in the red. It'll be another year before those consoles start making profit. 

In order for a console to make money, it must be sold en masse. In order to be sold en masse, it must be cheap enough for most anyone to afford. In order to be cheap enough for most anyone to afford, the manufacturing process must be refined and made more efficient. In order to refine and improve efficiency, there must be income, even if that income is outweighed by losses in manufacturing and R&D. In order to have income, it must be sold at a high price. In order to be sold at a high price, there must be consumers who have resources to burn. That requires a population of affluent people who aren't very discriminating in their purchases. 

If everyone were so positioned, the gaming industry would already be dead. Even giants like Sony & MS cannot provide sufficient supply to meet that kind of demand. The market would be riddled with cheap knockoffs that attempted to undercut the quality consoles, which is exactly what happened in the 80's before Nintendo came around. It was an unmitigated disaster. It almost destroyed the industry when it was still cheap to make games, and a single person could code multiple games per year.  

Today it takes hundreds of people and often multiple years to make a single major title. If the disaster of the 80's were repeated today, the damage to the global economy would be incalculable. Tens of millions of people would be out of work, and with nowhere to go. 

The gaming industry works the same as every major industry, from mining to vehicle manufacturing to farming and everything else. Every industry has quirks unique to itself, but the basic principles remain. Innovation and improvement costs a lot of money. That money comes from consumers who often have more resources than sense. As sense is a rare commodity, so must be excessive resources. 

Though I will say that the balance doesn't need to be as broken as it is, there must be an imbalance or everything goes to shit with con artists and opportunists abound.