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And, a recent tour of one of the Asian powerhouse's vehicle plants has proved this beyond a shadow of a doubt, at least to Honda President and CEO Toshihiro Mibe.

"We have no chance against this," Mibe said upon a visit to a Shanghai parts factory, commenting on its seamless automation across all levels of production. Logistics, procurement and all aspects of the process were so automated, in fact, that he did not spot a single human worker on the supplier's floor.

Ford executives saying even three years ago that China was way ahead of the game

Toyota's CEO has likewise said regarding not just his company, but the industry in general, "unless things change, we will not survive"

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[–] EightBitBlood@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You're missing the point completely my dude. There are no competative markets anymore. So there is no capitalism anymore. Do you understand?

Without a competative market, the system that's extracting surplus value is NOT CAPITALISM.

Do you understand what the word "constituent" means?

It means, "a component that is part of a whole (noun) or something that's necessary to form a part of a larger structure (adjective)."

Competative markets are constituent components to Capitalism. Thats what the wipedia page you linked says right after you stopped quoting it. So without competative markets there is no "whole" there is no capitalism.

If you sit down in a theater to watch a movie, and the projector doesn't work, do you think you watched that movie? You bought a ticket for it. You sat down. But the constituent component of a projector broke, so all you saw was a black screen.

That is not a movie. Let alone watching one. But you would argue it is because you bought the ticket and sat down in the theater.

Capitalism's competative markets are likewise broken, so what people are now experiencing is NOT capitalism.

This is not a hard concept to understand.