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Re:China Has Whole Towns Focused on Making Electric Cars by dsfyu404ed on Monday June 03, 2019 @10:31AM (#20083451)
>In the US, progress toward the industries of the future is happening despite government policies, not because of them.

So?

In any democracy government is going to lag the population/private sector when it comes to basically everything because you need more agreement before doing anything than you do in a private cooperation or authoritarian government system so the government winds up deadlocked or going back and fourth on an issue until a strong consensus emerges.

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Re:China Has Whole Towns Focused on Making Electric Cars by bryanlarsen on Monday June 03, 2019 @10:38AM (#20083533)
But it's the government's job to ensure that externalities are captured. Without that, the market is going to continue to exploit that rather than finding efficient solutions to minimize those externalities.
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