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[benji]

The fuck in God's name is going on here? I mean he was probably high on something after jumping like a retard but those eyes.

He legit looks 10 years older. Is twitter more stressful to micromanage than Tesla?

It's well known he's abusing drugs. His Twitter obsession is part of this because he can just sit and scroll and lol.

Thankfully for most of his companies, Musk isn't business stupid enough to not listen to his experts. Remember the panic over the slash-and-burn the Telsa/SpaceX people Elon helicoptered in to do at Twitter over just a couple weeks? Yet, two years later the company is fine.

This is not to praise everything they did, nor staffing choices since, merely to show they were right in estimating that 80% of the employees were expendable. Elon's people may have no better ways of monetizing Twitter and making it profitable but it didn't need that many employees to lose money. (Ironically, something both Jack and the last pre-Elon CEO also said. With the latter planning a long-term hiring freeze due to massive overstaffing.)

China relies on cheap migrant labor just like moi but why ain't shit cheap here? It's not just that dawg or else a lot of people would be up, not just them. ESPECIALLY the states you know, the slavery capital.

Ignoring that China doesn't rely on migrant labor but cheap local labor, because the United States relies on cheap migrant labor for services not manufacturing.

The ACTU is FAR from perfect and it is limited in scope yes, this does not invalidate how state run unions work in tandem with nation industry goals like subsidizing in all sorts of sectors from housing, health or whatever. You don't see anywhere near the same hyper-precarity(fyi I'm african so… yeah, we suffer the most from this) as you do in the states.

Because there is no mobility at all. You should also realize that "working in tandem with nation industry goals" defeats the purpose of unionism.

Your entire post was about individual cases of oppression, you barely stated any macroeconomic factors at all. If the reasons you named had any significant bearing on EV prices, the euro or euro adjacent imperials wouldn't be as far behind as they are today.

Also watch the look down on the suffering of my people. I'm African. Where do you think these materials are coming from? Destabilization of the continent is a QUANTIFIABLE reason of why these things are able to happen in the first place.

I said:

-State ownership
-Subsidy structures
-Nationalized (or sorta kinda) supply chain
-Lower wage definitely partially due to the welfare system
-Big money thrown at public r&d
Are all advantages over private sector driven economies are the primary factors driving cheap EV prices. Your post did not debunk these points.

Because the "macroeconomic" explanation is pretty obvious: China is losing money on EVs and because the workers don't get a choice the state can put the costs for this on them.

This is a well known economic thing and as a poster on a "video game" forum you should know about dumping: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)

Especially because the funniest interview in video game history was the CEO of Atari claiming he was going to block the release of the PlayStation and Saturn in the United States because Sony and Sega were supposedly doing this even as he claimed that the Jaguar had superior technology and was selling it for significantly under the price of either of those consoles.