Getting under $60/bbl has been a big deal. But a lot of that has just been the economy slowing.

we’d have a more competitive and distributed market for these technologies and a lower future dependence on Chinese imports for said technologies.

I don’t see a future where at least one of the two largest populations of educated professionals doesn’t lead the way on electric vehicles. And that really only leaves you with China or India.

You might have a broader distribution or more regionalized production. But there’s no world in which a country with the manufacturing capacity plus the enormous population advantage doesn’t come out on top eventually.

Right now, I can see a chokehold forming on that sector

I don’t see a chokehold on EVs any more than Taiwan has a chokehold on CPUs.

There’s a building comparative advantage, but the global market is enormous. Plenty of room to catch up.

That’s why China has ten competitive major brands right now

Sure. But that doesn’t change China’s economic growth path. You aren’t changing their behavior

Tesla is definitely “trying” by number of units produced. Volkswagen is also taking EVs very seriously, at least by current and projected manufacturing numbers.

I hate Trump, but I hate Xi Jinping with an equal fervor

Structural issues make egalitarian economic systems difficult. Wealth and social influence compound once another in a virtuous cycle. Wealth has a strong hereditary bias, even in socialist economic models. And violence is historically a powerful tool for accruing wealth. Very difficult to establish universal deterrence against violence.

This isn’t a question of people being smart or stupid. It’s an elaborate balancing act that becomes exponentially more difficult as population size expands.

Bribery is how the US political system has operated for the bulk of the country’s history

But, for the most part, the bribery was intended to increase private profits. Rarely have we seen industry bribe the feds in an act of self-sabotage.

nobody stopped them

What would “stopping them” have even looked like?

The writing is on the wall

If they want to beat the charges, they need to announce their own AI trained on the data several billion in Series A investment funding.

The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House

China’s HSR network is (largely by necessity to make sure there is a large enough migrant workforce available to break any worker organizing)

Is there any actual correlation between HSR and labor organizing? It seems like you pulled that out of nowhere.

I don’t care about your insults

Keep saying that. Maybe you can get someone to believe it

What if China’s domestic policy is centered on public high speed mass transit, not individual car ownership?

Given the high number of school shootings and political shootings and general stocastic violence in the states, it’s more surprising that this doesn’t happen as frequently.

Kirk getting got in the middle of Gun Nut Apologia was certainly a cherry on top, though.

It won’t work. But it would be extremely funny if he’s able to wiggle out of this due to the sheer tidal wave of incompetence at all levels of government.

Didn’t Weiss round up all the people with scruples and fire them already? Or was she just firing people at random and hoping the ones with scruples would catch strays?

I care quite a bit. But, like, in the same way I care about Charlie Kirk’s neck wound.

Your insults mean nothing to me.

Spilling a lot of ink to suggest otherwise

All the other times you attacked your allies?

It’s sort of our thing

This has got to be the stupidest comment you’ve said in our entire exchange

Brother, if you don’t want to learn about this country’s history, that’s on you. But your need to scream “Stupid!” every time I say something you don’t want to hear isn’t an indictment of my intelligence, just your maturity.