• TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    If they paid us fairly, then we could afford to buy their expensive cars. Then, the competition from cheap Chinese cars wouldn’t be nearly so big a problem for them.

    Their greed keeps coming back to bite them in the ass, but they’ll do anything at all to avoid sharing the wealth.

    • DisasterTransport@startrek.website
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      7 hours ago

      The CEO of Ford drives a Xaomi. He could have any car he wanted, and he chooses a Chinese car. It’s ostensibly for market research but he’s said he really doesn’t want to give it up. So yeah they’re cheap, and also I think China might just genuinely make better cars at this point. While China has been investing into manufacturing and consumer tech the big three have been dragging their heels and kicking and screaming because they see engineers as cost centers and that is biting them in the ass as well.

    • zbyte64@awful.systems
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      14 hours ago

      And if we had universal healthcare it would actually be cheaper to produce those cars. Canada is proof of this.