circuscritic
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- Comment on 'Quit Or Accept Minimum Wage': Chinese Company's Ultimatum To 1000 Autoworkers As EV Sales Drop 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.
- Comment on 'Quit Or Accept Minimum Wage': Chinese Company's Ultimatum To 1000 Autoworkers As EV Sales Drop 3 weeks ago:
That is their publicly stated goal, but that doesn’t mean it’s the policies true objective, or it’s only one.
I’m not providing any moral, or value, judgement on any of this, nor am I claiming to know what went on inside the halls of power when crafting this policy that isn’t public knowledge.
I’m simply stating that there are many “objectives” that this policy might be intended to achieve, other then what’s been promoted.
- Comment on 'Quit Or Accept Minimum Wage': Chinese Company's Ultimatum To 1000 Autoworkers As EV Sales Drop 3 weeks ago:
Depends on what your definition of “working” is.
If it’s to damage China’s EV producers, then yes, they’ll work.
If it’s to promote sales of domestically produced EVs, then probably a bit, although to what degree is unknown.
- Comment on Google Search adds a “web” filter, because it is no longer focused on web results 1 month ago:
Awesome. Truly spectacular.
No seriously, consider that generative AI is so energy intensive ($$$), that Google is requiring users subscribe to Gemini.
Also, Google’s entire company is dependent on advertising sales. Ad sales subsidize literally everything else.
Now, Google wants to remove web results and just use generative AI instead of search as it’s default user interface.
So, like I said: Awesome.
- Comment on UAW preparing the US for a general strike in 2028 8 months ago:
Solidarity and action requires communication. There’s NO way to coordinate that type of collective action and keep it secret.
Much better to say it loud and often to build support.
- Comment on Is "Burn Notice" worth watching? 9 months ago:
It’s dumb fun. Watch a couple of episodes and you’ll know if it’s your kind of dumb fun as the formula stays pretty consistent for pretty much the entirety of the show’s run.