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Longing for the day I can buy an EV that's not a smartphone on wheels is like... (startrek.website)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by IcedRaktajino@startrek.website to c/simpsonsshitposting@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

On a broader note, this is a failure of capitalism in which products can never be perfected.

There are sooo many technologies that we fully figured out years ago but they can’t just make it optimal and move on.

This is why we have washing machines using internet for whatever reason.

[–] null@lemmy.org 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The flip side is the kind of stagnation where you get a soviet-era hunk of junk that's still in operation, but horribly inefficient.

[–] vagrancyand@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago

Associating the soviet union, which before china was the fastest country to ever industrialize, modernize, and innovate past its competition, with stagnation is kinda wild.

They won the space race with 1/10th the budget and more efficient rocket motors. If they saw computers for what the actual potential was like Chile did with project cybersyn, the wall wouldn't have fallen and a lot of countries would be speaking Russian right now.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I wouldn't really take the soviet union as example for the flip side tbh

[–] null@lemmy.org 1 points 1 month ago

I just meant, "60-year-old rust bucket held together by duct tape and prayers," but soviet-era was shorter.