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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/50900195
Robotics has catapulted Beijing into a dominant position in many industries
“It’s the most humbling thing I’ve ever seen,” said Ford’s chief executive about his recent trip to China.
“Their cost and the quality of their vehicles is far superior to what I see in the West,” Farley warned in July.
Andrew Forrest, the Australian billionaire behind mining giant Fortescue – which is investing massively in green energy – says his trips to China convinced him to abandon his company’s attempts to manufacture electric vehicle powertrains in-house.
Other executives describe vast, “dark factories” where robots do so much of the work alone that there is no need to even leave the lights on for humans.
“We visited a dark factory producing some astronomical number of mobile phones,” recalls Greg Jackson, the boss of British energy supplier Octopus.
In Britain, Shenzhen-based BYD multiplied its September sales by a factor of 10 this year – overtaking far more established brands such as Mini, Renault and Land Rover.
Because they have run our country into the ground for their own personal profit, nepotism and corruption while destroying our education system, opportunities and infrastructure. Check mate idiots
Yeah, but WE pay, the oligarchs, in their privilege-bubbles, don’t.
That’s why they’re into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism , aka torch-us-so-they-get-golden-rulership … style of driving our lobbied/bribed “governments”.
WHEN one ideologically-rejects that souls have any future-Eternity, any “reaping of what they have sown”, as the root-guru of the Christians rendered the concept “karma”,
THEN torching-our-entire-future-for-narcissistic-momentary-pleasure is logical , rightttt?
Political-systems invariably divorce authority from accountability, and that itself proves political-systems unfit for ruling our world.
Responsibilityarchy’s the only survivable alternative.
Human-habit opposes responsibilityarchy, with its automatic-accountability mechanisms, more-fundamentally than it opposes ideology-rule, by far.
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Sometimes oligarchs get destroyed by supporting fascism.
Germany https://tourguide-kevin.com/oligarchs-and-hitler/
Russia https://www.euronews.com/2022/09/22/accidental-defenestration-and-murder-suicides-too-common-among-russian-oligarchs-and-putin