• Hannes@feddit.org
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    3 months ago

    Isn’t that how silicon valley worked for years even within itself? Run a loss for long enough until you’ve overtaken the market and then raise prices when the competition has lost their edge.

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      3 months ago

      That’s what China is trying to do with their EVs in other markets right now too as another example.

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        3 months ago

        Yet you still see people grumbling about how restrictions on chinese EV imports are just “American/Western Imperialism”, since people apparently don’t understand how valueable domestic production is

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          It’s because the USA floods countries with cheap goods all the time and then cries foul when someone else does it. It’s pure hypocrisy.

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            What cheap goods does the US produce and flood other countries with? Even in the US, most of our products are made in China.

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              US Agricultural goods are heavily subsidized and, thanks to NAFTA, flooded Mexico’s markets and destroyed farmers’ livelihoods.