Comment on 'Quit Or Accept Minimum Wage': Chinese Company's Ultimatum To 1000 Autoworkers As EV Sales Drop
eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoIt never occurred to me that the tariffs could be for anything other than blocking off access to affordable EV’s to protect automaker profits; I guess Reddit has made me cynical
circuscritic@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
There are legitimate justifications for this type of protectionism, such as dumping and other predatory pricing schemes. Those are reasonable and legitimate concerns in this instance.
My point was that for a policy with so many vested and monied interests, it’s not unreasonable to consider that the policy makers might have alternative, or additional, policy objectives that they aren’t upfront about.