Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining?
You&#x27;re not off base regarding the cars and the crime. It is well documented. There has been an increase in traffic accidents the last three years and I have been following it because I wondered myself if I noticed it. NHTSA gives an update biannually I think. Road traffic deaths per mile driven increased in 2020, 2021, and 2022. I think it&#x27;s still unknown if this is starting to revert to the pre pandemic mean but I haven&#x27;t checked in about six months. It&#x27;s related to the increase in crime although I have heard people suggest that there was simply a madness that occurred caused by empty streets during the covid lockdowns. Perhaps people got used to a lack of enforcement and being able to drive at much higher speeds on roads and they are set in their ways now. Police are somewhat unwilling to start enforcing this aggressively in my area because they have to take officers off of patrols and because it leads to an increase in violent officer encounters when they pull people over. The reality is they have bigger problems and not enough staff.<p>The cars you are talking about with modded exhausts could be just the area you are living in but there is a car culture involving loud, fast, sporty cars and the people who drive these cars are pretty apathetic about whether it annoys anyone. It&#x27;s unclear to me if this is growing but I think it is anecdotally. Maybe it&#x27;s worth looking into this further. It wouldn&#x27;t be hard to track car sales and the growth of modded Japanese cars. I remember this always being a thing since Fast and Furious but I thought it died out for a while. not sure =\<p>Regarding the subscription revenue thing I think this comes from business schools and public companies wanting to secure revenue streams for investors. I think it is definitely overdone. In the cloud business it kind of works but I think this model of business is being applied to other businesses due to its success. You see almost everyone trying to convert their business (ink for printers!) into some kind of a subscription model. It&#x27;s probably just a dumb trend that&#x27;s being propagated by &#x27;experts&#x27;. This is also me speculating.