• tsonfeir@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    I want a $10000 car that would normally be inflated to $30000 in the US.

    I’m no lover of China, but fuck the capitalist auto companies.

    • Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      That $10k Chinese car cost $20k to make. A competitor undercutting the market that much leads to monopolization. When that competitor is being bankrolled by a foreign government it’s potentially even a hostile act.

      People have been mad for decades about what Walmart did to retail in the US. Taking steps to prevent that from also happening with the auto industry should be appreciated.

    • Novi@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      I was born into a car centric society. So much so they design the places we live around them. Including dense residential far away from employment that requires transportation. Chop all attempts at decent public transit and now you have created a market of completely artificial demand. Which the law says cars must become more expensive. I have to have a car because of the awful design choices made by unqualified politicians past. Fuck the auto industry. They could have been out saviors by being the example of what union companies do but instead chose violence.