That’s established and stable brands that manufacture things in China which is completely different from Chinese brands building things in China and that can just close their doors tomorrow morning and leave the owners without any source for parts.

If an established manufacturer closes their doors tomorrow morning the same issue arises, the difference is that Chinese companies are known to do that and the Chinese government sometimes is responsible for closing them or simply doesn’t care about the effect on customers. They can reopen the following day and produce the same items as before but they won’t send you parts for the thing they were producing the day prior because it’s not the same company anymore.

And unibody

Unibody

Free will and vasectomies will become less common!

No one outside of tech communities does that

Only one of the three is body on frame and it’s Ford’s

Because it’s standard practice in China to just close a company and restart it under a new name. The government can decide to shut down everything overnight.

Look at parts availability for stuff sold by Chinese brands.

American manufacturers need to provide parts for 10 years after the last of the same model car rolled off the assembly line. Good luck forcing Chinese brands to respect that.

They still build the only real EV truck though

Sometimes context is important!

Or

Context is important sometimes! (If you want the point first)

It reminds me of that Black Mirror episode where people have memory chips to allow them to relive everything they’ve ever lived.

That preservation comes at a cost though, both monetary and environmental, and the amount of data to preserve increases exponentially.

Why should we care? Never in our history have we chronicled all the mundane things like we find on the internet. It’s like saying we need to archive all the kids drawings or all the personal journals or record all in person conversations and archive them… Just because it’s digital data that can be archived if we feel like it doesn’t mean it’s important.

Government subsidies from China isn’t free market either.

You want true free market? Alright, salaries will need to be the same as in China to compete, how would you like that? All manufacturing jobs in first world countries are gone, sounds nice right? You should ask people from Detroit how that went.

If you don’t mind seeing Chinese manufacturers taking over another sector by underpaying the people working in those factories…

One of the reasons why cars made in the US and Canada are more expensive is also because the people making them have good living conditions. If you want to see those jobs disappear then go ahead and buy more Chinese shit, don’t come crying when China has the monopoly on everything and starts increasing prices in order to get a return on investment on all the subsidies they’re currently paying!

In proportion though it’s clearly not the same!

If you have enough customers that you can sell 4 lbs to one at a rebate and the rest is sold at regular price to the other clients, but then that one client starts buying all your stock at a rebate, you’re losing money compared to the past situation, so you might be better off losing that client or forcing them to pay full price and hoping that they just continue buying depending on how the math works out…

Wouldn’t that open the door to the bill being declared illegal since you didn’t consent to the services?

Well that last part is a US specific issue and people have the right to refuse treatment

Weird that criticism of Spam wouldn’t be acceptable in a vegan community!