I think there's room in the market for a back to basics car company that takes out all this bs, goes back to crank windows and all that crap and sells new vehicles for an affordable cost with a good warranty.
It would probably crush today.
Edit: I got like 400 responses saying "slate" ok I get it you can stop
the US used to subsidize EV sales too until a certain pedophile returned to office, and they were still generally more expensive than Chinese ones are now.
And why does it matter? oh no the Chinese tax payer subsidized my car. This is a negative somehow. There's worse things to subsidize than EVs, like growing alfafa in the desert.
The real negative is just the long term concern of a country having a self supporting economy. What happens when all technological production is done offshore and we import everything? Where's the jobs that will pay for that?
Shipping used to be a major barrier to this but ever since the shipping container was developed its gotten exponentially cheaper to ship things to the point that now a worker has to compete with people literally on the other side of the planet being paid horrible wages and working in terrible conditions.
Don't US auto companies get all kinds of tax breaks plus are part of industry protectionism? Yet it seems to be a competition to make the most expensive daily driving car.
Using your massive size to crush local competition is basically what WalMart did and everybody hates that, but apparently they'll cheer for it when China does it because /r/AmericaBad
It's hard to eat morals. It's easy to take a moral stance against something when you are not having to choose between heating your home this winter or buying snow tires.
When the entire economy is trying to grind you into the dust so some shareholders can make a few more dollars it is easy to not look the gift horse in the mouth.
Put another way, your comment better than any single one I have ever read perfectly defines the idea of privilege.
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u/burge4150 10h ago edited 4h ago
I think there's room in the market for a back to basics car company that takes out all this bs, goes back to crank windows and all that crap and sells new vehicles for an affordable cost with a good warranty.
It would probably crush today.
Edit: I got like 400 responses saying "slate" ok I get it you can stop