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> The US car manufacturers are cooked.

Biden put a 100% tariff on Chinese cars and then Trump added tariffs on inputs.

Americans are getting screwed!


We in the US can't hide forever.


Forever is a long time.

Once FSD, we will make rules about the software that will have the effect of excluding Chinese companies. I seriously doubt that I'll see Chinese cars here in my lifetime.


Cool, we can be like Cuba except we did it to ourselves


> When stated that way you can see that there are several levers to pull, the most obvious being compensation.

Ford's profit margin was 1.7%. Lots of innovative/productive American companies since 1970 for workers to aspire to = the enterprise can't continue.


> no social democrats in sight

The US already has social security, medicare, medicaid. It is often just plain worse/more brutal than Western European countries but the difference isn't a radical reimagination of the social order.

> barring the occasional Bernie

Western Europe has likewise not imagined any new government welfare since the 1970s.


> only have use as propaganda

Propaganda helps you ascend to power and then constrains what you do with that power.

Ultimately if you want to look objectively, you have to look at the concrete, at history. But propaganda matters: history would unfold differently without it!


> These words have more conventional meanings.

Kondylis disputes the typical interpretation of "conservatism." Historically it was a backwards justification of feudalism. Easy to see why someone would talk up "history," "tradition" when they're at the top of the social order and an upstart comes on to stage.


ATS does this. Works quite well since multiplication by known factors and addition of type variables + inequalities is decidable (and in fact quadratic).


Xerox was when the US was on the up-trend, not committing economic suicide at the whim of a mad king.


Given the changes to R&D taxation and cuckoo tariffs I don't think private research will want to start a lab in the US like Bell did.


France is explicitly trying to poach researchers. UK is committing higher-ed suicide though it has a better reputation than the US in many ways.


For engineers, maybe. But with immigration restrictions, employers can no longer create a workplace where "work with the best in the world" is an attraction.


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