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Martin Schwoerer's avatar

Very well, but in our societies, cars are a Potlatch.

Even though you can buy perfectly useful clothes made in China, folks still like nice made-in-Italy threads. More to the point, folks dress like slobs nowadays because social signalling is done with the vehicle you drive. Technoaffinity by Tesla, red-state virtue with a truck. Could you imagine a MAGA bumper sticker on a Chinese EV?

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