Plastering walls use to be a great paying skilled job, and when drywall came out and everyone thought that meant less time making boring flat walls and more time doing fancy plasterwork in corners and edges. But the fancy corners and edgings disappeared, it took too long compared to the rest of the wall plane and people who did it still wanted decent pay for maintaining or building that skill. And even for plain drywallers, productuon demands went up while wages stagnated. And now these days most drywall is seamed like trash and most guys doing it are desperate and/or addicts. The only thing that earns money now in drywall and plaster is meth head production speed and a lack of complaints about the work.

What skills people think are valuable and prized, and what skills corporations are willing to pay for, are often very different.

Do you think he could justify pulling a pistol and firing it near or at them in this case? Because I am not sure he can.

Most cars crossing water don't get stuck because the intake is blocked by water but because they either floated or get pushed away by the flow (or slammed into the water hard enough to break stuff). If you maintain forward movement and dont float most cars will keep going in water 4-6 inches above the intake height because of the wake and bubble of the engine compartment. You only really benefit from a snorkel if you are offroading through water where there may be unseen holes because submerging your entire engine and drivetrain that deep is still a horrible idea even with a snorkel.

Also if you don't have a direct motor on each drive wheel you still have to worry about water entering differentials and transfer cases even if the electronics are perfectly sealed.

They try a little more maybe, but are still completely insulated from and out of touch with average citizens. But they don't care because they have money and most US problems are only problems for people without money to spare.

If supressing cases or throwing big money lawyers against legitimate lawsuits is cheaper, they will do it. If teaching cops to hide their corruption is easier than rooting out all the corrupt individuals to raise rates, thats what they will do.

To me this is like claiming someone in 1901 was an alarmist for talking about how dumping chemicals into our waterways was destroying them and dumping chemicals out the back of plants was creating polluted toxic ground as they observe increasing numbers of dead fish. And they were right, there are endless numbers of extremely toxic superfund sites and even more that are poorly documented that we know are killing people.

In some areas when big enough hail or storms goes through a town 1 or 2 crews will jump on the insurance payouts and take the low bid if they can do them all at once. And within a week or two at worst the entire neighborhood or small town is reshingled.

To me asking why we don't have a single measuring standard is similiar to asking why we don't all agree on a single language. Sometimes it would be easier, sometimes it wouldn't, but in the end it doesn't matter all that much.