▲ 522 ▼ TIL that for the average price of a car in the US, you could buy 5 cars in China (www.reuters.com) submitted 3 months ago* by Wudi@feddit.uk to c/til@lemmy.world 230 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] CannedYeet@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 child) That's very nice of them to make stuff cheaper for me. If only my government wouldn't tack on 100% tariffs. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Steve@communick.news 6 points 3 months ago (2 children) It's not. They aren't doing it for charity. It's just like when Amazon sold diapers at a loss. Once all the competition is gone, and China has the global monopoly they want, they'll use it to inflate prices even higher, or for leverage on other markets. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago How could they? For shame... Only American technology companies are allowed to do that. permalink fedilink source parent [–] CannedYeet@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago I love that that story of Amazon selling diapers is the most salient example of what economists literally call "dumping". permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Steve@communick.news 6 points 3 months ago (2 children) It's not. They aren't doing it for charity. It's just like when Amazon sold diapers at a loss. Once all the competition is gone, and China has the global monopoly they want, they'll use it to inflate prices even higher, or for leverage on other markets. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago How could they? For shame... Only American technology companies are allowed to do that. permalink fedilink source parent [–] CannedYeet@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago I love that that story of Amazon selling diapers is the most salient example of what economists literally call "dumping". permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago How could they? For shame... Only American technology companies are allowed to do that. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] CannedYeet@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago I love that that story of Amazon selling diapers is the most salient example of what economists literally call "dumping". permalink fedilink source parent