• dinckel
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      851 day ago

      They’ve actually done the exact opposite. The lobbying, the import laws, the absence of a foreign export market, and the manufacturing of cars that would never pass safety laws anywhere else, all resulted in the kind of dogshit that Americans have to experience now. Why improve if you’re the only player

    • goferking (he/him)
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      1123 hours ago

      They saw what happened in the 70s and said never again will they have to actually compete with better products

    • @scarabic@lemmy.world
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      115 hours ago

      Detroit is easy to hate but there’s more wrong here than how much can-do energy they wake up in the morning with. If they competed on features and quality they could never compete on price. Everything we do to keep the dollar strong makes it impossible to manufacture here.

      • Boomer Humor Doomergod
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        161 day ago

        They don’t compete here either.

        They’ve stopped producing passenger cars, and the Chicken Tax means they don’t have to compete on trucks.

    • @NotBillMurray@lemmy.world
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      121 hours ago

      Nah man, that’s not the purpose of unrestrained capitalism. The point is to get big enough that you can buy out all the competition, then make your product cheaper and cheaper once there’s no one to compete against. It’s a bit like an economical algae bloom.

    • @finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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      016 hours ago

      Michael Dunne has been competing the entire time, for the Chinese. His statements here aren’t fear, they’re shillery.

    • goferking (he/him)
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      023 hours ago

      They saw what happened in the 70s and said never again will they have to actually compete with better products