• JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Government providing money to create innovative new tech and make it available at a lowe cost to their constituents

    Manipulating the prices to be lower

    I just wanted to point out the pervasiveness of capitalist propaganda here. They’re not manipulating prices, they’re helping their people. It just so happens that our capitalistic systems don’t do well when someone helps their neighbor because then we can’t abuse them.

    Now don’t get me wrong though, I’m not gonna sit here and tell you the Chinese government does no wrong. But in just this particular case I think we’re picking the wrong battle

    • jaxxed@lemmy.ml
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      1 hour ago

      It is capitalist perspective, but not propaganda.

      If there is meant to be capitalist competition then the competitors should not be massively funded by the government. China massively funds their electric car industry, principally because they own them.

      That said, US carmakers get Government bailouts all the time.