imagine if they simply spent that lobbying money on research and development!
They know they can’t compete with China at this point, so they’d prefer to flip the table.
we can’t compete with China, therefore you’ll all die.
They know they can’t compete at the new game, so want to play the old game.
Trouble is, the new game already started.
The issue is that they totally can compete in the new game. People who have put electric drivetrains in older originally combustion cars have been able to make amazing vehicles. If a European company started going back to their roots of good driving, lighter, well built cars I think they would sell. If they were able to have a minimal amount of computers on top of that it would be awesome.
If car companies can’t adapt and innovate in 10 fucking years then they deserve to go under.
the fact that lobbying, which literally is just bribing the government, is somehow legal all over the world is crazy to me.
I’m listening to a podcast about the French Revolution, and man this must be what it felt like watching all those entrenched interests and archaic institutions fight for their stupid outdated privileges in the face of imminent collapse.
Fuck them.
