Which are your top five SF books?

Ford can build that kind of car. They can't get batteries that cheap.

That is the argument Milton Friedman made.

Sounds like you know what the problem is. Think of it like the DeBeers diamond cartel on steroids.

Then the subsidies will start again until those new companies disappear.

The USA is able to develop batteries. China has taken control of the lithium pipeline, the same way they've taken control of the rare earths pipeline (through poor environmental and anticompetitive practices). The CCP doesn't care if they poison their own people.

Dumping means selling below the value.

You are wrong because you don't care what is true. You are a liar. You don't want to participate in conversation, you only want to spread your lies.

Do you mean this review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It's going to get worse in the future: https://m.xkcd.com/3167/

For the same reason people in the US complain about the lack of public transportation. We don't want to use public transportation ourselves,

we want other people to use it so the roads will be clear. https://psmag.com/economics/wh...

How do you compete fairly against a country that uses slave labor and no environment controls?

It's amazing how much your words sound like a Soviet apparatchik. You're not interested in truth, you don't care about that.

If your idea of style is "expensive = style" then you have no style. His watch would be indistinguishable from a $10k watch without close inspection.

No it isn't. My health plan costs me about 12k/year and my employer another 20k. My base salary is more than that. And would be more than that even if I made the median income.

I watched all the stuff the GPP mentioned when I was young, and I actually watch a lot of PBS now; but not nearly as much and less and less all the time. Why because i am replacing it with youtube'ers who genuinely are better.

As great as Roy Underhill's or Norm Abrams' shows ever were, I learned more applicable wood working from Acorn to Arabella and Sampson Boat Co, or at least understood them finally. Same things with cooking, ATK is still amazing, and Julia and Pépin shaped me in the kitchen; but there is plenty out there now that is every bit as good and its not hard to find.

I loved PBS in the late 80s thru the late 90s, but the era is over.

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is an incredible value for the money, said everyone defending every government dollar every time..

Certainly in the era before ubiquitous highspeed internet access and pick your self-publishing video platform, those things were great.

They are obsolete now. There is a time when even where you have found something that worked, the need is gone and it is time to stop doing it.

... has forced american consumers to buy ridiculously oversized SUVs and pickups for the last 2 decades. The best selling car in the US? F150. Don't tell me someone living in the suburbs needs one of those gas guzzling and impractical (unless you really need to chuck half a ton of building material in the bed) vehicles. Manual trades yes, most people? No.