Should we build better cars at lower prices by investing in better automation?
No, it's the Chinese who are wrong.
Given time, every American auto maker will turn into Harley-Davidson, selling increasingly outsourced, shitty, and expensive vehicles to a shrinking market of boomers while the rest of the industry moves on without them.
The difference is that when Harley got bailed out by Reagan's tariffs people could still buy a small Honda and get plenty of motorcycle for cheap - but right now the trajectory for autos writ large seems to be cutting out all foreign competition entirely, forcing every American to keep buying boomer shitboxes.
