A $5,600 tail light repair?

Complexity leads to cascading failures

This is the first in a series of posts (probably 3) on the perversities of our current political economy as they show up in the particular setting of auto repair. This one concludes on a hopeful note, suggesting we can embrace a car culture of improvised engineering (as in Cuba, famously) to salvage a vast stock of serviceable cars that have been scrapp…