Comment on Fear of cheap Chinese EVs spurs automaker dash for affordable cars
echodot@feddit.uk 1 year agoI 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
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.
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.
Nobsi@feddit.de 1 year ago
You forgot the uyghurs and slave labour…
Convenient.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well the US has 1.2 million prisoners who get paid on average 86 cents a day. So effectively slave labor. That they aren’t directly building cars doesn’t matter because money is fungible. Every dollar saved not paying prisoners is more money elsewhere in the economy.
www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2017/04/10/wages/
echodot@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Yes I did, I mentioned human rights abusers, it’s right there in the comment that I made, I can still see it.
So what’s a good idea to actually read the comments before getting angry about them.
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.