Big corporations know very well how competition works and would like to avoid it at all costs.
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halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They have never considered actually competing have they?
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 3 months ago
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Former big corporation*
Who also worked primarily in Chinese Automotive industry*
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
They saw what happened in the 70s and said never again will they have to actually compete with better products
deathmetal27@lemmy.world 3 months ago
What happened in the 70s?
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Toyota had small, fuel efficient cars and that’s what people wanted during the oil crisis.
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah, them and Datsun. Super reliable cars when US manufacturers were ugly slow tanks that wouldn’t make it 80,000 miles.
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 3 months ago
They do. For example here. Just not in your country.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They don’t compete here either.
They’ve stopped producing passenger cars, and the Chicken Tax means they don’t have to compete on trucks.
nucleative@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Couldn’t have a thought further from his mind
NotBillMurray@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Nah man, that’s not the purpose of unrestrained capitalism. The point is to get big enough that you can buy out all the competition, then make your product cheaper and cheaper once there’s no one to compete against. It’s a bit like an economical algae bloom.
scarabic@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Detroit is easy to hate but there’s more wrong here than how much can-do energy they wake up in the morning with. If they competed on features and quality they could never compete on price. Everything we do to keep the dollar strong makes it impossible to manufacture here.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Michael Dunne has been competing the entire time, for the Chinese. His statements here aren’t fear, they’re shillery.
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
They saw what happened in the 70s and said never again will they have to actually compete with better products
dinckelman@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They’ve actually done the exact opposite. The lobbying, the import laws, the absence of a foreign export market, and the manufacturing of cars that would never pass safety laws anywhere else, all resulted in the kind of dogshit that Americans have to experience now. Why improve if you’re the only player
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 3 months ago
They have an export market, its the handful of douchebags in Australia that want compensator trucks