Wont work. As in plenty of places in the world, tractors are already shifting to electric.
And John Deere, will be the last one to adopt that. I do not think they even have a big market (in tractors) outside of the US - hm, perhaps in Australia?
A decent tractor for usage on small farms in Thailand (and for relatively small roads), you get from Alibaba around $3500. Yes, in words three thousand five hundred.
So your idea they order them and assemble/rebrand them is plausible.
I do not know, is Alibaba and all the other sales sites blocked in the USA? I guess importing agrar machines fall again under a special law, and no one bothers to do it.
You get plenty of interesting stuff, like laser cutting machines, or "lego" houses to assemble at home, for close to nothing.
Have you ever seen a lase cutter that can cut a hand width thick plate of steel?
Don't google for it or your
Do you own a shovel or a chicken?
Nope. They are not means of production.
They are simple: a shovel.
And: a chicken.
You are stupid or uneducated or both: beyond believe.
Markets existed before capitalism.
Long before.
As capitalism has nothing to do with the concept of ownership.
Capitalism as the name implies means: money is power.
Owning a house, or a sword, a horse or a slave: is not money. Why is it not money? Oh you can not carry your house to a place and sell it there. You can not have a bank account fill with houses, and invest them into a 5 years delivery plan of grain. Doing business without money, or as ersatz: gold, is complicated.
When money got invented, many things got more easy. And here, arguable when Great Britain switched to paper money: capitalism started.
Either you are dumb, or you play dumb.
And the only restrictions the "anti capitalists" invented once was: rich people should not own mines, and oil wells and other core resources, like the most important industries, or indefinite large patches of land.
Simply speaking: rich people should not have power over poor people. Anti capitalism tries to achieve that, sometimes in some areas it works. Unions for example. Or Norway with its resource fund. And Germany with incentives for "workers" to accumulate a simple wealth (but fails badly there), or strong workforce protection laws (which kind of work). And so on
And that rich people should not have power over poor people is a no brainer, and has nothing to do with free markets or not free markets.
Again: what has capitalism to do with ownership, or a market?
Do you want to call the middle ages capitalism? In a certain sense they were. Could a random person own a random thing? No.
Often even the possession of gold was forbidden.
Were the markets free? Not really. Most of the time prices were set by "agencies", a guild or something like that. Lots of trade was barter trade.
So: even with capital, you could easy just found a brewery. Or have grain mill, or god forbid: a mine.
The critics on capitalism came during and after the industrial revolution. Money gives to much power and makes it easy to have wage slaves, people in bad health, treat the environment like shit, have real slaves, exploit resources in ways that are not good, who cares if a mine later collapses and then towns above them crumble
Capitalism basically means you can abuse the power of having capital unrestricted.
I can buy ALLL the food, and burn it up, and the rest of you useless scums, starve to death
But in those times we had no regulated free markets. And if you want to play the game a bit bigger, you invest capital into something that is quite common, perhaps under valued, and: start a war.
You idiots who mix up all the *isms have idiotic ideas, for example that an "anti capitalist" is against free markets. Only Russia after WWII and parts of its block tried planned markets. And: how far did that go? It is a no brainer that a planned market can not work, and that free market - albeit regulated - is a corner pillar of a modern society.
All other communist countries either had no markets at all - see Cambodia - or always had free markets, see China, Vietnam, Laos.
And the problem is not capitalism versus whatever*ism, it is the idea that rich people have political power. China is proud that rich people in China only have the power they acquire by being members of the party, and be voted into positions inside that party, by other party members. And have otherwise no power at all
Free markets and capitalism are parallel concepts.
None of them requires the other.
The two prime doctrines of capitalism are:
- you may use you capital how ever you want, for example exploit natural resources - and own slaves if
- you are free to accumulate as much capital as you with - how ever you can
Free markets and other things have nothing to do with capitalism.
And for starters: all those *isms can overlap or exist together in the same environment.
Fact is some ways off overlapping *isms work better than others, in one way or the other.
Since Iran is ruled by the Mullhas (which were set into power by the US), it is not really friendly.
To piss off the US, they support Russia, Hisbolla and what ever.
In the end it all always boils down to the US mistakes they made the last 75 years.
Destabilizing other nations governments
When the Shaw did not agree to sell oil only for USD, but said he sells for what ever currency (namely ECU), he got deposed.
The war with Venezuela and Lybia: they refused to only sell for USD - so the idea that the world oil trade would "back the USD" and USA can nearly make as many depts as they want, looked to fail.
All the problems in the world are US money and oil problems. Even Afghanistan. Which was supposed to be the big new oil and gas hub for the transcontinental oil and gas pipelines. Suddenly it got so interesting that everyone thought, lets bomb it before it becomes an economic thread.
The regime there are "Taliban"
Who is winning from the Russian/Ukraine war?
US companies selling liquified nat gas to Europe
but most of the improvements in US automobiles came about only because of pressure from technologically superior imports.
Interesting wording
Actually one would need to admit: they could not export their shit anymore if they did not follow the (safety and other) regulations of the countries they import(ed) from.
On top of that, in the EU it is a rule (not law, but laws get updated accordingly), that when a technology is ten years old: it becomes mandatory for new cars (an airplanes and such).
Of course it is a bit ridiculous if a car now needs a rear facing camara and a monitor to "safely drive backward", but for ABS, ESS etc. or front facing collision avoiding systems: it perfectly makes sense.
ARM processors
Well we have at least two German companies crafting optical CPUs/TPUs.
Linux is Finnish
MySQL/MariaDB
And so on.
Sure, as most modern things are open source, there are plenty of US citizens as contributors.
I would not really call that "US made", like for example an Intel CPU or Apple Silicon.
And we did. See LibreOffice/OpenOffice, formerly known as StarOffice
Or Ragtime
EU regulators were perfectly capable of blocking any US purchase of EU companies at any time.
Without due process? Basically a law suit?
Nope.
On the other hand, EU has hundreds of companies that offer data center services for start ups, that handle all the legal requirements.
You are not supposed to "start up" and your first steps are implementing a legislation conform infrastructure.
That's because as brutal a regime as China is they are at least predictable.
In China nothing is brutal since over 30 years.
Unlike USA it is a fine working striving democracy - stop repeating your stupid US propaganda.
but the incentive to work around them.
The reason why most countries do not honour/support/have software patents is: you can work around a simple principle.
Or you have to hope no one patented bubble sort, and every time a new patented sort algorithm pops up: you have to work around it and use good old bubble sort.
Or as Donald Knuth is supposed to once have said: if I give my students a task, then I expect 3 or 4 solutions, and each solution will be very similar for the students who came up with it.
What is next? We put a patent on adding and multiplying?
Reading mails?
Or god forbid: programming?
Or even remotely logging into an old Cyber 205?
365 Days of drinking Lo-Cal beer. = 1 Lite-year
