On one hand, the CCP fucking sucks. On the other hand, the US alternatives to some of these banned / tariffed Chinese products also really suck - especially when it comes to bang for your buck. ugh.
Problem is that, especially with the automakers, is that a lack of competition becomes an excuse to not invest in innovation. For example, General Motors is throwing billions into stock buy-backs, when they probably should be throwing that into EVs.
Yeah, that's the stuff that makes this difficult. I can talk all day about what "makes sense", but you throw one corporate executive into the mix and everything falls apart.
That only works if you have competition. We don’t really have free markets. The consolidation is so extreme that auto makers for example really don’t care if consumers want a high value budget EV. Why should they? They can make you collectively buy something else when you need a car to get to work.
Yeah they aren't going to invest in their product. They don't have any reason to now. They're now the best product you can buy and they raised the price to reflect that.
And there are plenty of non-Canadians on it too, like me from America. It's a pretty big instance, and I wouldn't be surprised if there are more non-Canadians than Canadians.
Honestly, if there was american branded stuff I would prefer it to made in China stuff. I want to stimulate our own economy not China. For example: computer stuff, small microprocessor stuff like arduinos, circuitry components, rubiks cubes, audio stuff. All of those are dominantly Chinese, if I want to find good American stuff I can't. Someone needs to take the fucking risk and do it.