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A $5,600 tail light repair?

A $5,600 tail light repair?

Complexity leads to cascading failures

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Matthew B. Crawford
Dec 05, 2023
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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…

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