• CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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    11 hours ago

    Ford stopped making cars because they can’t compete with the current crop of cars coming from Japan/Korea and Europe regardless of how much money they throw at the problem. They have their niche with trucks and SUVs and are happy to stay there. China builds cars using massive government subsidies, slave labor, and local resources that aren’t available to anyone else in the world which is why I think it’s right to fight against them because it’s impossible to compete against them just like a small local grocery store can’t compete against Walmart.

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      2 hours ago

      China builds cars using massive government subsidies, slave labor, and local resources that aren’t available to anyone else in the world

      Why are Japanese and Korean cars also better/cheaper than American cars then?

      Slave labor

      Citation needed

      Massive government subsidies

      The US doesn’t massively subsidise auto-makers?

      But yeah china bad

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      1 hour ago

      China builds cars using massive government subsidies

      The federal government ended the the EV subsidy a few years ago.

      slave labor

      lmao. We know what slavery looks like, you can see it in the cotton fields outside Angola Prison, rows of enslaved people, and overseer on a horse, all behind barbed wire. In Xinjiang I saw farmers driving combine harvesters in roadside fields.

      local resources that arent available

      You’re getting closer. Through 1 and 5 year plans, the CPC uses SoEs (and sometimes just asks private companies “nicely”) to ensure the foundational inputs, steel, rubber, chips, college graduates, etc are all available to industry at the specific price point and volume that competing private firms need to produce say, 100m EVs or a million more apartments.

      Any country can do a little central planning to make sure private industry has what it needs, but this only works if you’re able to take action against companies that exploit the system.