Former GM Executive: BYD cars are good in terms of design, features, price, quality. If we let BYD into the U.S. market, it could end up destroying american manufacturers
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You think Americans can't change, just look at German Automakers. They are stuck in Perpetual denial. VW only moved electric because of the massive diesel scandal, otherwise they also would have been like every other car manufacturer.
Yes, but nobody ever expected Germany to be quick and adapt. Germany does not do that in general. It takes something that exists, perfects it, and then sells the perfection of the existing thing, ideally until really not a single person on the world needs it anymore. US on the other hand, has the reputation where innovation begins and does wonders. I am asking myself, where is the innovation in their autoindustry? Last thing was actually Tesla itself, when they started producing first electric cars.
It is the same situation, but the expectation is completely opposite.
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That might be true, but also a certain revolutionary purging of world politics would do a lot to return to something close to that. The golden age happened after the world war and decolonization, when western countries were full of veterans, and laws governing their lives were much simpler.
Internet-assisted direct democracy, open borders, open trade, radical changes in patent laws, simpler laws generally - all this can exist.
We simply have too much legacy everywhere strangling development.
The bad guys are trying to make it appear that the only legacy that can be stripped is that of French revolution ideals, human rights and civilization. That actually we don't have to strip, that is all good. Just them.
It's normal. Sometimes humans need surgeries, and sometimes a part of an old building has to be dismantled - maybe there's a pipe in the wall that leaks, or maybe you need to retrieve a human skeleton found using some new technology, whatever. And you throw out garbage regularly.
So a reform for direct democracy (with ranked choice between variants having, say, 1000+ initial supporters in some incubator to get to the vote itself, because we have computers, storage and connectivity to make everything desirable for such) IMHO would go a long way to fixing half the problems in the world.
We simply have too much legacy money everywhere strangling development.
I think that's the crux of it. Nobody with money to do big things is asking, "What does the world need?" They're always asking, "What can I convince the world it needs so it will give me even more money, and how can I retain exclusive rights to it?"
The human race absolutely has the capacity to turn the world into a wonderful, plentiful place for everybody, but those with the means of starting that are more motivated to acquire more and more for themselves, and most of the common people don't trust the world enough to entertain sweeping proposals because what if it's a trick or just doesn't work?
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Even if they changed how would they win?
They're just too expensive to manufacture as compared to chinese ones.
Expensive is not a problem it it's followed by the appropriate quality. Also, US should be far more able to use tech to automate and make efficient, same as China can use cheap labour. In the end, a robot is a one-time fee, doesn't get sick, and can work 24/7, easy and fast to learn new processes. Long term a robot will always outpeform a human.
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It brings up a valid point. Assembly line manufacturing will soon require massive automation lines to remain profitable, and without massive government assistance in not just money, but education and training, these kinds of automation factories will likely never be fully realized here.
They don't need any government assistance, they just need to take the millions they pay out to stakeholders, and invest them into automation. The money is there, just being handed out to a few people. Why should the government pay for something that sits on tons of cash but won't use it?
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American car companies are focusing on their highest profit center, massive trucks. Milking that market for the short term.
….. regardless of their long term survival. It seems extremely short sighted.
American companies exist to maximize shareholder value. Remember that. There is no company, doing anything, for the better of the world or humanity. At least not as the primary motivation.
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They've got to keep their profit margins, or the CEO's and shareholders might need to take a paycut.
Oh no! Anyway...
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requires foreign investors to partner with Chinese nationals in order to own and operate capital
this also means that chinese companies are notorious for stealing IP. it’s easy to be cheap when you don’t do the R&D - you just fast track to producing the product
chinese companies are notorious for stealing IP
American companies sell the ip to China in exchange for access to capital and labor, then claim they've been robbed when the Chinese firms innovate and expand on the patents they've acquired.
The end result is a car company that produces better vehicles than anything an American or Japanese or German company can manage.
Curiously, these superior vehicles are "stolen" while the Teslas keep exploding under home grown technology.
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Tbf notoriously China subsidizes BYD to net loss so its not exactly capitalism.
fair game IMHO. if you look at china as one big agent, then they can indeed act like that.
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Bailouts are unacceptable period. Trained workers, factories, factory hardware, logistics specialists, engineers, patents and so on - they all remain in the economy. That a company fails and goes bankrupt is not a bad thing. It's just that company. Not the industry as a whole. If there are no additional mechanisms.
Somehow Americans seem to have forgotten that the kind of "capitalism" which gets defended is about this exactly - a company goes bankrupt, too bad. There are other companies which will hire its workers and buy its assets. Possibly new companies created by its former employees. Its shareholders have gambled and lost, well, their problem. That's what an unregulated market is, by the way, and not bailouts to big fish and horse dicks for small fish.
If something works differently - workers don't find a new place to work in, factories go to scrap metal, engineers go flip burgers, patents are collected by trolls, and new companies are not being created, - then something has been broken by an existing policy.
Patents are the worst of it, but also non-compete clauses, legal impediments for creating new businesses, legal expenses making it harder, - these things have to be removed.
I mean, people on Lemmy love to dream of something like what you list, those things are good, but maybe fixing some basic things about what you already have is no less useful. Especially since these fixes do not cost any money to maintain, while, well, pensions and healthcare do.
why bail out the companies and not the people?
(/s, i was joking, of course in US companies value more than human life)
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Tbf notoriously China subsidizes BYD to net loss so its not exactly capitalism.
The US subsidizes farms and petroleum.
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Oh no! The type of capitalism where we have to compete!
Make it go away, Daddy Trump!
Sadly, I think it was Biden that put a 100% tariff on Chinese EVs. Fuck Trump, but come on, Biden, don't do this shit for them. I really like that new Xiaomi YU7.
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Not sure why you get off on trolling that china does not have its own labor issues
Jack Ma defends the 'blessing' of a 12-hour working day
Alibaba's billionaire founder sparked intense debate after pressing for a 9am to 9pm working day and a six-day week.
(www.bbc.com)
cute troll
LOL 'Labor issues' are everywhere, such as child labor in the US. Never said Chinadidn't ve issues.
However your article itself from 2019 and the sinophobic BBC about this one guy who WANTS this system. People say a lot, that doesn't make it reality. That system is illegal in China. So you proved you're a liar.And why do you mods remove my comment when this troll here is calling me a troll while demonstrably lying?
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Not sure why you get off on trolling that china does not have its own labor issues
Jack Ma defends the 'blessing' of a 12-hour working day
Alibaba's billionaire founder sparked intense debate after pressing for a 9am to 9pm working day and a six-day week.
(www.bbc.com)
cute troll
haha mods here are biased
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Also, slave labor.
LOL US cope
Are the slaves in the room with us now?
The only country with massive slave labor is the US with its prison system.
Or their good friends the headchopper gulf states -
What do you think Walmart does when they enter a new market, the eat losses till the local competition folds and they are the only option left
Well don’t forget that Walmart itself is literally government subsidized when the people employed there still need food stamps or other welfare programs.
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haha mods here are biased
....we removed both parties comments because you both were going
you: no your a troll
them: no your a troll
you: no your a troll
them: no your a troll
Not because we took sides.
Calling eachother trolls is not being excellent to eachother (rule 3), if you want to talk about disagreements do it like adults.
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LOL US cope
Are the slaves in the room with us now?
The only country with massive slave labor is the US with its prison system.
Or their good friends the headchopper gulf statesThere is plenty of modern slave labor and exploitation going around. No major manufacutring nation is innocent.
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Tbf notoriously China subsidizes BYD to net loss so its not exactly capitalism.
Did you forget all the bailouts US car manufacturers received?
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Same. I'm looking into an EV, and I just want a simple car that goes and stops when I instruct it to. I don't need any kind of always-online service, I don't need cameras, etc, I just need to get to work and back.
Well, the US did have the slate truck coming up for really barebones options... But tariffs ruined that for now. Some of the lower budget Korean EVs have limited/optional connectivity.
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There is plenty of modern slave labor and exploitation going around. No major manufacutring nation is innocent.
What other "major manufacutring nation" oficially has this slave system?
