• reev@sh.itjust.works
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    4 hours ago

    “A free market is self regulating” until someone makes a better product for less money, I guess.

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      3 hours ago

      We tasted some of that self regulating ‘free market’ a while ago. Banks were having huge profits from the housing bubble until the subprime crisis hit, banks went into default, and the losses were picked up by public money.

      My profit. Our losses.

    • CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      The point both of you deliberately overlook is that China is not participating in a free market anyway. They never played by those rules so there‘s no point in treating them the same way as anyone who does. There is a lot of hypocrisy to be found in politics and economics around the world and China itself is a prime example of that. But a measure to defend yourself from an obvious case of economic warfare is the most understandable thing in history. Your criticism is misplaced and irrational. I mean do you seriously think a monopoly is desirable?

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        2 hours ago

        China defends its interests and follows what rules it deems advantageous. Just like everyone else does. It may upset you but they’re just better at playing this game than most countries nowadays.

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        2 hours ago

        We’ve had of ecocomic warfare already. It was just fine for US companies to hollow out domestic manufacturing so China could build the manufacturing infrastructure that could have been built in the US.

        But now that a Chinese company is building things that undercut a US company, you want protections for US billionaires that weren’t afforded to US workers.

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          2 hours ago

          Are you ignoring the whole subsidies thing on purpose? This is not BYD attacking Tesla. This is the Chinese government attacking western industries.

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            2 hours ago

            If the Chinese government is losing money on each car they export, soon China will be bankrupt. It only makes sense to buy more China cars at cheap rates and bankrupt their country.

            Also, there is no proof of subsidy, it’s just made up Western cope.

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            2 hours ago

            This is BYD selling cars for less than the billionaires you care about want to.

            Nothing more.

            If an American company badge engineered these cars and sold them in the US at US prices, you would be fine with it just like you’re fine with the economic warfare against the poor that US manufacturers and China have been allies in for decades.