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China’s Electric Vehicles Are Going to Hit Detroit Like a Wrecking Ball
(www.nytimes.com)
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Oh no, the single most powerful corporate industry of the twentieth century, who had EVs thirty years ago, and so horribly mismanaged everything the taxpayers were forced to give them billions of bailout money, is gonna be hurt by affordable cars people want.
Oh boo fucking hoo. You fucked around for a century. Eat shit.
This is true, but companies also have workers, who support communities. Those that fucked around will not be those finding out, even if their portfolios perform poorly.
Oh no! The Mexican workers building domestic cars will now be building Chinese cars!
If the companies gave a shit about the workers we wouldn't be having this discussion either. We'd have EVs the workers built instead of clinging desparately to ICE and petroleum.
They don't give a shit. Detroit already showed that decades ago. Why are they being intractable assholes about producing a good affordable EV? Well, the answer's in the question - they're intractable assholes.