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Very outdated cars that kept getting produced despite significantly improved technology being available due to a refusal or inability to invest into it is a symbol associated with the collapse of the pro-Soviet bloc.
The big 3 make shitty cars that compete with Honda and Toyota, so they have shifted all production to trucks and SUVs that have much higher margins rather than try and make quality cars for cheaper. This has been going on for the past 50 years, but they keep choosing the losing strategy because it offers short term profits that appease share holders.
It is actually shocking how much worse the cheapest American cars are than Japanese, or even Korean, counterparts. And the American ones are often ~$3,000 more for the same type of car in the first place. Every Chevy I’ve been in felt like it was trying to torture me in the most subtle way it could get away with. Jeeps are even worse.
Well Chevy is the lowest tier of GM’s offerings. So yes. They torture you in whatever small ways will get you to buy the same car from a more expensive brand that they also own and has all the same features standardized because, either they’re safety features that it would look really bad to not offer, or they don’t actually cost so much to implement that a competitor couldn’t offer the same package for less.
I have the same theory (if you can even call it a theory, a capitalist would call it “just business”) about affordable apartments being intentionally shitty not for real cost reasons but just to punish people for choosing the less costly option. It also makes the expensive option look artificially better while not actually being that much more expensive to the capital owner, but we all know that advertising something as “luxury” isn’t actually about providing “luxury”.
Very outdated cars that kept getting produced despite significantly improved technology being available due to a refusal or inability to invest into it is a symbol associated with the collapse of the pro-Soviet bloc.
lol i wish, then they’d be making cars with physical buttons and tape decks
Ur car wont have any actually useful (woke) modern tech but it will have full ai integration
The big 3 make shitty cars that compete with Honda and Toyota, so they have shifted all production to trucks and SUVs that have much higher margins rather than try and make quality cars for cheaper. This has been going on for the past 50 years, but they keep choosing the losing strategy because it offers short term profits that appease share holders.
It is actually shocking how much worse the cheapest American cars are than Japanese, or even Korean, counterparts. And the American ones are often ~$3,000 more for the same type of car in the first place. Every Chevy I’ve been in felt like it was trying to torture me in the most subtle way it could get away with. Jeeps are even worse.
Well Chevy is the lowest tier of GM’s offerings. So yes. They torture you in whatever small ways will get you to buy the same car from a more expensive brand that they also own and has all the same features standardized because, either they’re safety features that it would look really bad to not offer, or they don’t actually cost so much to implement that a competitor couldn’t offer the same package for less.
I have the same theory (if you can even call it a theory, a capitalist would call it “just business”) about affordable apartments being intentionally shitty not for real cost reasons but just to punish people for choosing the less costly option. It also makes the expensive option look artificially better while not actually being that much more expensive to the capital owner, but we all know that advertising something as “luxury” isn’t actually about providing “luxury”.
Put more bluntly, it’s class warfare.
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