• Riverside@reddthat.com
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    1 day ago

    Nah, you’re just a propagandized westerner who hasn’t done the most cursory research on the degree of automation in Chinese EV industry. Enjoy malding in your ignorance while your country’s industry crashes and burns

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      1 day ago

      That China has terrible workers rights is a fact. That China also has a lot of automation is an unrelated fact that is also true.

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          11 hours ago

          Chinese EVs are cheaper because the control the supply chain from mining to battery production. It has nothing to do with automation or cheaper labor, US plants are all automated. Chinese cars need to cost more for transport.

          It is impossible to build lower cost cars in the US with healthcare costs, and Trump has only made that worse. US is the only country that ties healthcare to employment.

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          Mostly. Price is a complex problem. Cost is a floor factor and automation affects that somehow. It is hard to know when automation lower prices as this depends on relative labor costs which have been going up in China.

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          23 hours ago

          Its unrelated to a conversation about the oil industry and lobbyists, obviously, yes.

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      23 hours ago

      The degree of automation is not relevant to a discussion about why they’re being kept out of other countries, or anything to do with Big Oil.