On one hand I totally agree when you slam the people who are showing total ignorance to facts of the market, they are an extreme. But on the other hand you are also acting like an extreme when you condemn everybody for saving the proverbial nickel. If the truckers have it hard so does a large proportion of the customers of goods.
It's not so much the proverbial nickel that I'm angry about. Customers can't really be expected to know all the nitty-gritty details of how the good was produced and transported.
The much more relevant issue is people voting for systems that make the nickel the rule of the day. And in all fairness many of them are voting on other issues or are misled about the issues by the mainstream media. Or maybe families are just too busy and overworked and lack social support for childcare to have a chance to critically consider the system. In the end most people aren't bad, they're just people trying to survive as best they can. So perhaps the anger is misplaced.
But without anger you only have despair, and at least with anger you get heard.
Yes, the American attitude is really "I have it hard so FUCK YOU" rather than "We all have it hard. Why is that?" Poor and middle class Americans absolutely hate anyone who they think is getting something they "don't deserve," such as healthcare or services, rather than asking why they themselves don't also have it.
Anyone who thinks two-dimensionally should be slammed. Trucking creates one of those scenarios where we attribute personal accountability to systemic problems.
Always be wary of such systems, for the devil is in the details. You may save a nickel, but in the process cost society as a whole $0.50.
