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This is not capitalism as China is net-lossing market acquisition.
This is called "dumping" and is not a feature of capitalism in any way. In fact, every single economic school that likes capitalism is against it. Generally net-loss market acquisition is very bad thing for our society as it privatizes gains and socializes losses. i.e. if EV market suddenly implodes many people would be holding the bag and if EV market succeeds then only a few people profit.
Marxists themselves classify net-loss acquisition as a failure of late-stage capitalism (which is fair) but when .ml's favorite flavor of authoritarians do it then it's ok lmao
Dumping is the natural end of overproduction or under consumption. It's also a tool to secure new markets. Capitalists employ it to get new customers and minimize losses. That's why Walmart exists in small towns and why previous season's stock goes on sale.
What we see here is a state capitalist entity participating in a global capitalist market using the tools available to them to secure new markets. There's more than one tool at play here too: the article talks of the advanced state of automaton as the differentiator with domestic producers. At the scale of automation described, even if not sold at a subsidized loss that's still gonna produce a cheaper product.
This doesn't make sense in this context of dumping. It's intentional overproduction for market capture not some inbalance in the market.
This is fundamentally opposite of capitalism, in fact as I said in the original comment market capture is inheritly anti-capitalist. Walmart, China etc. use abuse of power for an unnatural capture of markets. This is closer to authoritaniasm than capitalism.
Most capitalism haters fundamentally misunderstand what they're hating it for. It's valid to hate capitalism for it's insufficiencies (it can be gamed and needs intervention) but it's silly to attribute everything to some magical all powerful capitalism in the sky - this just reeks of low brow scare tactics like the red-scare.
Market capture is one of the major goals of capitalism because it allows for continuing, unconstrained profits.
When you control the market people have no choice but to turn to you if they need what you sell--regardless of quality.
Securing markets through control of supply doesn't stop being capitalism just cause it's done (perceivably) unfairly.
I feel like you're going a bit into the weeds here. That's goal of any participant in game theory - capture and win as much as possible. So it doesn't matter what economic framework you're using every participant will try to claim the biggest piece of the pie. At least capitalism tries to address this with "checks and balances" of competition while other systems just blindly work on faith that human virtue will be stronger than game-theory which it absolutely might be, at some point?
To be fair, the kind of capitalism you're talking about is/would be heavily regulated. In a free-market, which most people refer to when referring to capitalism due to messaging from Republicans, dumping is a perfectly fine tool. Is it ethical? No. But who cares? It's a free-market.
Any system ought to be. There's no system that you can just let loose and have it self correct for itself, that's a fairy-level of a delusion. People are very smart and will always figure out how to game a system.
In other words, a non-intelligent system will always be conquered by an intelligent participant, always.
Where capitalism extremists do delude themselves here is that "capitalism can be a sufficiently intelligent system" (the invisible hand) if it defers intelligence to game-theory level competition: because we all check ourselves we end up low-key giving intelligence to the system. Unfortunately this is just impossible to stabilize without unified borg-like society where everyone plays under this unified system but it also doesn't mean there isn't value of introducing some intelligence to the markets under intelligent supervision.
I believe any intelligent system will be corrupted, or manipulated for greed. It's why I believe in complete anarchy. A complete lack of state and authority. All beings equal, all provided what they need. And everyone works with their unique skills for a better future.
Adding intelligence doesn't make it any better. It just makes the system more exclusive for the powerful. It's a higher barrier to entry. But the entry is still there.
We both believe in utopias. And we both hope for systems in which human beings aren't the most vile creatures on earth.
It was a pleasure conversing with you and many blessings to you.
Cheers! I'm a fan of anarchy as well :)
Thoughts on what I think is the standout from their comment?:
I'm glad the US doesn't privatize gains and socialize loses.
And yet here we are, in a capitalist society, and it's the current reality.
Wild.
We are not in "capitalist society" that's a bit of an immature take as we have many ideologies and systems at play. We should identify weaknesses of all systems and use a buffet style policy making not subscribe to religion of specific rule. There are many great things in capitalism, there are many great things in controlled markets, there are even some great things in authoritarianism (i.e. wartime readiness).
Personally I don't believe system design is all that important — it's human virtue that drives all of this. A sufficently virtuous society would thrive under any policy framework as it would be capable of identifying faults and self correcting towards a more balanced interpretation and enforcement of any rule.
Capitalism is destroying our planet. You can only spin that as positive if you don't care about our species continued existence.
nope, shitty people and authoritaniasm is destroying our planet. Often quite literally too.
They’re the same picture.
Shitty people don't get to run everything into the ground unless we let them. That's a feature of capitalism.
Besides, authoritarianism and capitalism aren't mutually exclusive.
We've been ruining the environment for a very long time, and that started with the industrial revolution precipitated by, you guessed it, our very own U.S.
You have been eating from the garbage can of pure ideology.
That's all true and China needs to be actively worked against to prevent their market manipulation but we can't forget the reason American auto makers can't compete is because America has manipulated the the markets so much they are uncompetitive also not capitalism, now they are trying to reverse course 180 before china is unstoppable by letting in a bunch of cheap labor, a lost cause if you ask me America will never be a manufacturing center again but you don't need to beat China just create competition and they will fall eg stabilize and incentive Mexico to create manufacturing and hope the tech industrys in America remains a monopoly or we're SOL.