Re:Retreating from EVs could be hazardous for Western carmakers
by jemmyw on Saturday December 27, 2025 @04:29AM
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The global population is not dwindling yet. At the current derivative of birth rate it'll keep keep growing for 50 years. Of course many places will experience a demographic crisis well before the global population falls.
Re:Retreating from EVs could be hazardous for Western carmakers
by wakawaka28 on Saturday December 27, 2025 @06:54PM
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Many places already are in demographic crisis. "Not dwindling yet" but the fix is in. It will dwindle as soon as old people start dying.
It’s my pet theory that China and friends have been running some serious propaganda in the West which has culminated in this red vs blue vitriol that’s bordering on mindless, thought terminating cliches. I say that because they routinely get away with far worse and very few people speak up against it nevermind do something about it. The air around it is so quiet it’s as if people are siding with them (and perhaps they are).
[nb. The average Chinese person would easily point out the number of Jews as heads of prominent tech companies in the West and not flinch saying it. The average Westerner dare not even think about saying it. That’s how crippled your standing is right now.]
Blaming Trump won’t help rewind the clock, and there’s ultimately very little he’s personally responsible for in the grand scheme of things. This started decades ago and you’re up against a country that will use every dirty trick in the book, because they are playing to win.
First realize how disadvantaged you are at the moment that whatever you do, your country would stand in your way and sabotage you out of petty reasons, against a country that’s turning more and more people into millionaires and proliferating across the globe and who has softly and quietly taken key strategic economic and industrial positions at a global scale. You can blame Trump if it makes you feel better, but it won’t help you win.
Population across the globe may be dwindling, but some people have more to lose than others and still come out on top.