Remember that Dale also did not know what the confederate flag truly meant. He just thought it was a southern thing. And the minute someone told him how offensive it was to them, he went and immediately scraped it off his truck and apologized.
Dale wasn’t no damn loser traitor.
Checks out! What a bro.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/earnhardt-remove-flag-sticker/
That and it was prohibition so your moonshine operation was against the law.
One of my favorite songs from Jim Croce, Rapid Roy the Stock Car Boy, has a whole verse on this!
Rapid Roy, that stock car boy, He’s the best driver in the land He says that he learned to race a stock car By runnin’ shine outta Alabam’ Oh the demolition derby and the figure 8 Is easy money in the bank Compared to runnin’ from the man In Oklahoma City With a 500 gallon tank
1800l of shine would weigh more than most cars, what on earth was he driving?
Couldn’t tell you the exact make and model, but afair, prohibition was when American automakers first began making high performance cars, specifically because a lot of people needed something that was able to move a shitload of weight while still being faster than the cops.
The specific number in the song is probably just either artistic hyperbole for “a hell of a lot” or a number that fit the meter, though 😁
Actually it was bootlegging.
The underlying point is the same. Bootleggers were providing what the people wanted and cops were in the way because ACAB. That’s the core of it.
I’ll remind you that prohibition required a Constitutional amendment, the idea was very popular.
Popular amongst Protestant busybodies with more zeal than sense and outsized influence on politicians, sure, but not necessarily the population in general.
I’ll in turn remind you that it became so unpopular that they passed a new amendment to get rid of it, the only time that ever happened.
Well some people want kiddie porn and cops are in the way of that too, so probably not the best line of reasoning there.
Wasn’t the whole stock car thing started by shinerunners?
In that case, they were running from the police because they’d have gone to prison if they got caught.
Capitalism is why. There was a market for moonshine and high profit margins for the risk.
Money is usually the motivation
Seems a bit reductive. Everything boils down to money if you’re content to look no higher up the hierarchy of needs.
Capitalism isn’t market forces existing at all.
Capitalism is directing and manipulating those forces towards accumulation and endless growth, following an ethos of “more is more and more is inherently good”
I suspect that there would be a shitload more anticapitalist people in the world if everyone was aware that markets and capitalism aren’t synonyms…