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WarmWashtoday at 1:50 PM1 replyview on HN

You can't be the worlds premier manufacturer for 30 years and not get really damn good at making stuff


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floatrocktoday at 2:15 PM

Case in point: EV's.

Inferior quality maybe was accurate 5 years ago. Now they're taking over the global automotive market. Only thing preventing them from pulling another Japan-in-the-90s against the US auto market is americans' love of oversized trucks, tariffs, and import controls. If we had a true market economy, we'd see more BYD's than Teslas (and in most global markets that's already the case).

Yes, you can still get cheap Chineesium crap off Amazon for pennies on the competitor's dollar, but it's no longer necessarily true that Chinese = inferior.