30 People Post Their Dumbest Ideas That Might Just Might Make The World A Better Place

Mark Rober was the one who did it. Also had a 3rd sound that was even nicer for pedestrians.

I use my hazard/emergency lights for both "thank you" and "I'm sorry"

well ya see when they were growing up and working the wages were under 5 dollars

Exactly. Tie it to the national average wage. Less Roch lawyers will want the job and if they do take it they won't stay for 40+ years

I'm of two minds one this. I'd love if politicians were normal people and on the surface tying their wage to national average does seem like a great idea. BUT I suspect it would just mean more politicians being unscrupulous and taking bribes left, right and centre in order to live the life of leisure they want to go with the power they gained being part of the bureaucracy. Secondly, wouldn't it be great to have scientists and humanitarians part of the government? Education in the US is like having a mortgage when you are 20. People literally have to take the soul sucking jobs in corporate in order to afford to live. Perhaps there should be a national law that caps the highest earners at 10X minimum wage (in Ontario that would be like 14.50/h vs 145.00/h for a CEO). Those extra funds should be funnelled directly beck into lowering debt and making people's lives better. E.g. Investing in people, infrastructure and the future.

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Of course, average salaries would also disincentivize politics for really smart, hardworking people too...

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They all make regular salaries. Senators and congress make 174000. My dad working as a Millwright for Syncrude Canada made just under that and I certainly never felt spoiled or rich

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Most clergy are not paid a lot. My sister and her husband are both Episcopal priests, and while they are comfortably middle class, they definitely aren't rich. The mega-church guys, otoh, need to walk a couple of miles in the shoes of the people they bilk for millions.

no don't all i would do is divert all the us budget to nasa in search for sexy thicc lizard alien tiddy

Yes! We should all be doing what Portugal is doing about drugs.

This. Quicker and safer for a car to pass than bikes riding single file.

Hm, I've seen too many huge SUVs to believe that to be true ;-)

I finally had to google what peloton means! In Finnish "peloton" means fearless and I had seen peloton in use a few times in otherwise English sentence. It always just happened to fit somewhat in the Finnish meaning as well (like in your sentence "the rest of the fearless" would work, even if a bit odd), so I thought the writer might be Finnish. I finally realized it must mean something in English, only because you used quotation marks. So thank you for inadvertently educating me! 😁

Try riding a bike Al. It is fun, good for the environment, safer for pedestrians than 2 ton death box and keeps folk fit and healthy. Holding up commuters in their cars through a town by a few mph is not a bad thing, They can chill out listening to the radio in the arm chair that most cars seem to have with climate controls. Driving with rage isn't very sensible is it old chap?

Is it an actual bike path, or a narrow painted bit of pavement right in the "door zone" of parked cars? Most cities have the latter and people wonder why many cyclists ride in the sidewalk or middle of the road instead. I had to go to the doctor to have a hemotoma drained in my thigh (essentially a big deep blood blister) after a car "doored" me while I was riding in that little striped area that the city calls a bike lane.

nice observation Suzy, but sometimes it is safer on the pavement- especially for younger, less experienced riders that have had abuse shouted at them or had a car overtake them leaving barely any space.

Drivers routinely break the law too. Drive too fast, use their phone, park illegally...

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Who cares though.