Comment on Fear of cheap Chinese EVs spurs automaker dash for affordable cars

• penquin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I get your sarcasm, but Chinese products are life savers in 3rd world countries like mine. My brother bought a Chinese pickup truck for $3500 brand new. American trucks are at least 10 times that. People there work a whole month for $500 - $900. No one can and will never afford that shit. Same goes for other products like cellphones, computers… Etc. an iPhone there costs $1200 - $1400 and a Chinese one costs $300 max and it does the job no problem. People in those countries love China.

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  • CeeBee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Which countries?

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    • penquin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      3rd world countries. Or do you want specific names?

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      • CeeBee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yes, I asked “which countries”, not “what kind of countries”?

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• Ardiente@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I know someone is going to read that and not get the implied /s

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  • nutsack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t care about them

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t know, I feel like it works on both levels really. There are actual people that think like that and it’s insane. The US trade war doesn’t really help

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    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It depends on how it’s done. If the Chinese government is directly subsidizing the cheap cars then it’s a problem.

      Kind of like the US subsidizing farmers and then dumping the cheap corn on other countries such that their local farmers go out of business.

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s capitalism. You don’t get to complain because someone else gets a better deal.

        China will always be able to produce cheaper products because the cost of living is lower there. But that is hardly a major revelation.

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      • buzz86us@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        they have dropped subsidies, and the companies making terrible product, and those with unsustainable business models are collapsing… Weltmeister, Lepin… all defunct.

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