I don’t love the dealer experience, but they distribute the wealth of the auto industry regionally instead of concentrating it in Dearborn or wherever. Local dealers are always sponsoring little league teams and paying property taxes on relatively valuable real estate in a way that Tesla never will.

I dunno, it’s hard to argue this if you take it as gospel that the economy is at its best when it’s finding efficiency at whatever cost. I don’t feel super strongly, but I do think there’s something to this.