• sebinspace@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    EVE Online taught me this lesson. Those with the resources to do so will take a loss to price you out of the market, because they know you can’t take the losses nearly as long as they can.

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      6 months ago

      This isn’t a mom and pop shop. This is the Big 3 in the country with a GDP 10 trillion dollars higher.

      Stop spreading red panic, it’s not the 1950’s.

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      6 months ago

      And that’s precisely what’s happening here. A car manufacturer with a whole-ass government subsidizing it is going to be able to operate just fine at a loss pretty much indefinitely, whereas a normal car manufacturer would sooner or later simply go bankrupt (pointedly ignoring the whole “too big to fail” idiocy, which to be honest, while similar, isn’t quite the same thing).