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  • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldDon't you like capitalism?
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    There’s plenty of competition in the US auto market, both from US, Japanese and European brands.

    The difference is these cars are either made in the US or in countries with similar enough wages. Even cars made in mexico are required to have a $16 minimum wage as part of USMCA.

    China is on a different level and allowing them to sell cars here without restrictions would cause a race to the bottom for wages in the auto sector, pushing back a lot of wins the UAW has gotten recently.

    If they want to sell cars here they should get the same deal as mexico, require a minimum wage and labor standards.


  • Fundamentally it all comes down to wages, US workers can’t compete with Chinese workers who will do the same job for far less.

    Even on the benefits side all of what you listed above and more is common for auto workers in the US because they have an independent union, and even the workers who are not in the union get the same benefits as the manufacturers compete for workers. Meanwhile independent unions are not allowed in China so they’re at the mercy of the employers and the CCP. Granted the CCP does seem to care about workers more then the US government, neither care nearly as much as the UAW.





  • RFK in particular was an environmental lawyer who spent a lot of time looking into how corporations are poisoning the populace. So he is tuned to see increases in a disease and look for a culprit.

    Trumps wealthy donors don’t want him going after the extractive industries that are actually causing disease so they sent him on this quest to find the mythical environmental cause for autism.

    He’s also surrounded and supported by rich white people who think this is the most pressing “epidemic” because it effects them. They don’t care about the poor black people getting poisoned in cancer Alley because they never see them, meanwhile they see karen and her autistic son who she’s ashamed of every day.



  • This is why buying new cars is dumb,

    A used Hyundai sonata 2024 is ~20k USD

    A used Hyundai ioniq 6 2024 is ~24k USD

    Yeah it may be more upfront, but most people finance any way and your monthly payment will be offset buy your fuel savings.

    There’s enough of a stock of used EVs, quite often with low mileage, at this point that cost is becoming less of an issue for people then the perceived lack of convenience. That and dealerships/manufacturers not promoting them because they get less maintenance fees and they’re lower margin then a giant SUV or pickup.