Since you ask, you always sound like a little bitch.

It is not all industries, which is why it's possible. They were subsidizing solar panels for example, now it's EVs. And crypto mining. And food.

This is not to say nobody else does the same thing, but nobody can do it on the same scale, because nobody has as much manufacturing as China. (How we got there is of course of interest, but not relevant to this conversation.)

That's because you lack any semblance of morality.

Your lack of understanding of consent is why people cover drinks around you. Now you know.

This is not good-natured. This is abusive. It's textbook abuse. This employee is going to win.

That this is abuse is obvious unless YOU'RE A FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT.

If you have a poor performer, and you don't want to employ them, terminate their employment. Don't abuse them for your own sick sadistic pleasure. That costs extra.

They have a higher corporate tax rate and actually collect corporate taxes. Ask a hard one.

In that case, you should be killed and fed into a wood chipper aimed at some depleted soil, because that would be environmentally beneficial. Maybe think for at least two seconds before writing something like that. If you want people to believe you're a human, have some human considerations.

Capitalism doesn't specify whether the market is free or not, only that capital controls the means of production.

Expecting anyone to read Ayn Rand is far too much. Her writing was terrible, her characters were caricatures, her ideas were borrowed from a criminal, and she was a hypocrite through and through. You cannot learn anything of value from a person like that except how not to behave.

I've done that kind of work and it does in fact suck. There's good reasons most people try to get a different kind of job.

Wars of the future will, like wars of the past, be settled by manufacturing capacity. And it's capacity to manufacture drones. Which country do you think is most capable of that today? It sure as shit isn't the USA.

I'm not going to spend a lot of effort making sure that google's "AI" keyboard correctly predicted what I was trying to write on this site where the "editors" put zero effort into... well, anything at all, in fact.

I am in no way here to defend any of the shitty stuff my country has done. It's a long list, and I complain about much of it myself, frequently. It's the least I can do (and also TBH the most I have done, aside from some purchasing decisions)

Ford and GM both build a lot of cars overseas. And then there's Stellantis, not sure what to say about that. HTH, HAND.

I'd rather invest in HERF

Yes, if I wanted to deliver something to a prison at night (ObDisclaimer: I don't) I would certainly not give a fuck what the FAA thought, and I would certainly use a drone that could just fly the waypoints and then park itself someplace convenient rather than control it in real-time.

But smugglers have been ahead of the average person for a very long time...