After all the adding, subtracting, multiplying & dividing, the NET VALUE is $37.62.

Interesting.   Have  had  experience with the Reverse.
Picked up a  LS650. Ran bad, thought It would be a  easy fix.
It was not,   (well it would have been if I knew what was wrong)

Point is,  I Stripped it, and now having about 1/2 the small parts sold.
Have about 1/2 the   Expensive parts, still here.
And am at  30%  more than I paid for it.

In Doing the research,  a  New  S-40, would cost about $5,000.00 (+/-)
Yet, adding up, all, the  ‘Parts’, at  OEM   Price, it would be, $40,000.00 (+/-)
(And you do the labor)

So  looking further, you buy a  cage, at  $20,000.00 new.
Finance it, and drive it to 200,000 miles.
With All the, reg, maintained items.
  (NOT  Considering  GAS)
You have paid, about,  $45,000.00
for something that is now worth about, 4-5, thousand,
(Depending on  RUST, LOL)  maybe 2-3.

’Service’, is  HUGE, on ANY, ’Thing’.

When I bought my last truck I thought about how under our banking system the purchase of my vehicle created about 25,000 the instant I signed the paper. Because banks can loan much more than they have on deposit, this money was basically created out of thin air because I got a wild hair up my nose and financed a new truck. I just wish that money could vanish again if I ever can not repay the loan.

I am not bashing the fractional reserve system we have. I would rather have the job I do now and a new truck instead of slaving away at a gold mine all day so our money supply could increase enough for me to buy it and fund all the labor, materials and overhead that went in to making it.

There is no real sustained wealth, it is simply what the people at that moment will trade to get what you have.  We use money since trading squirrel pelts can be messy (but was used by the Seneca back in 1970's when they had a todo with the electric co's).  So while you may think that production of goods is what makes you wealthy, please check out the Swiss who own stuff all over the world letting those neighborhoods to get polluted while the Alps stay beautiful.

thumperclone wrote on 11/13/16 at 12:06:20:


Got me eh......