Big corporations know very well how competition works and would like to avoid it at all costs.
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halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 1 week ago
They have never considered actually competing have they?
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 1 week ago
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Former big corporation*
Who also worked primarily in Chinese Automotive industry*
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
They saw what happened in the 70s and said never again will they have to actually compete with better products
deathmetal27@lemmy.world 1 week ago
What happened in the 70s?
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Toyota had small, fuel efficient cars and that’s what people wanted during the oil crisis.
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 1 week 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 1 week ago
They do. For example here. Just not in your country.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 week 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 1 week ago
Couldn’t have a thought further from his mind
NotBillMurray@lemmy.world 1 week 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 1 week ago
They saw what happened in the 70s and said never again will they have to actually compete with better products
dinckelman@lemmy.world 1 week 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 1 week ago
They have an export market, its the handful of douchebags in Australia that want compensator trucks