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Look at his post history. He's a legit SPCX shill lol. Probably fucking volunteered at a Goldman call centre to call everyone's grandparents and be like "Hey there's a once in a lifetime opportunity to invest in Stark Enterprises! Iron Man privatized world peace, now he wants to give you money!"

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There might be no fully free market capitalism as envisioned by Adam Smith but the economic philosophy of the USA is much closer to that original essence than China ever will be. Why you bother trying to hold a country that literally rebuilt itself on rampant censorship to the same standards as a country who touts itself as the world's shining beacon of freedom is beyond me. It's apples to oranges. Western countries literally carved China into spheres of influence during the imperialist era and even if the USA wasn't directly involved in pillaging China specifically, their alliance with European countries meant that they also reaped the benefits of forcing China to open its borders. The Western hemisphere spent centuries pillaging, razing and bullying the remainder of the world, I'm sorry if I feel 0 empathy that for once a country wouldn't let them have free reign over their consumers without also demanding some benefits in return. Your argument in favor of protectionism due to IP theft might have some merit if the USA didn't have also a history of employing the same tactics against Japan automakers when Toyota and co were first gaining a foothold. The USA doesn't like foreign competition, period. China's IP theft is only the cherry on top. As I said before, I am against IP theft in a perfect, meritocratic world. But this world is far from that and I quite frankly find it ironic to when the world's historical bully gets its shit stolen for once. And before you said anything, I'm American.

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I think this is probably much closer to the core of the issue than simply comparing Chinese and American wages. A car isn't just the labor cost of the people doing final assembly. It's batteries, power electronics, semiconductors, motors, castings, software, logistics, suppliers, tooling and the speed at which all of those things can be developed and scaled. That's also why Brazil and Europe are becoming such interesting experiments. Chinese manufacturers are increasingly moving final assembly outside China. In Brazil they're taking over or reusing existing factories and hiring Brazilian workers. In Europe, BYD, Chery, Geely, Dongfeng and Leapmotor are all moving toward some form of localized production. So over the next few years we're going to get much better evidence about this. If their advantage disappears as production localizes, then Chinese labor costs and domestic industrial conditions were doing most of the work. But if much of the advantage survives, then the supplier ecosystem and manufacturing organization you're describing become much harder to ignore. E para o TurkeyBLTSandwich, eu usaria: This is the part of BYD that I think gets overlooked when the discussion becomes only about subsidies and wages. BYD isn't just taking a conventional Western automotive supply chain and paying the assembly workers less. It has built a much more vertically integrated industrial structure around batteries, electronics, powertrains and vehicle production. That doesn't mean the model is automatically superior or that its current advantage will last forever. American manufacturers can reinvest, reorganize supply chains and bring technologies back in-house. But that's exactly why I think competition matters. We're now seeing Chinese manufacturers take that manufacturing model outside China. Brazil is already getting locally produced Chinese vehicles, and Europe is moving rapidly in the same direction. Once those cars are being made by Brazilian or European workers, the wage explanation becomes easier to separate from the manufacturing-system explanation. That's the experiment I'm interested in watching.

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I wash my Balls once a month. I Need to Safe Money for calls

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The solar part is something that gets surprisingly little attention in these discussions. The purchase price is only one part of the economics of a car. Once someone can generate part of their own electricity, the energy economics of an EV become fundamentally different from an ICE vehicle because the owner can actually produce some of the vehicle's fuel at home. Obviously that doesn't work for everyone. You need the right home, charging access, enough solar generation and suitable driving patterns. But that's another reason I think competition matters. Don't just compare sticker prices. Compare purchase price, energy cost, maintenance, depreciation and actual real-world use. Then let consumers decide which technology works for them.

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They would sell them below cost and put Detroit out of business in that segment and then raise the prices once they are gone. And our workers would be flipping burgers at Wendy’s.

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My Uber and Grab shares are gonna go crazy once this oil crisis is over

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Just once i would like to get it on with the triple witches

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To be fair late yesterday was the big move that you could actually take advantage of for once.

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