That's a bold claim. Do you really think that the Chinese government has such capacity?

Good luck resisting a tyrannical government that has jets, tanks, bio weapons and nukes

If you need a cheap car, then why buy new? Plenty of good used options out there, and sometimes more reliable than new cars

IIRC the difference between new and used has shrunk quite a bit recently (at least for desirable models and types) because many consumers are frustrated by the new-prices and all look towards used.

I've heard it said (literally, it was a podcast) that US car-companies are caught in a kind of prisoner's-dilemma: They all want to be the ones selling expensive (high profit margin) cars, and nobody wants to be serving the low-end. But in the long run, somebody has to, or else the market gets... Weird.

You can't really compare the economy of countries on two different contintents just based off of a single macroeconomic metric and expect to capture anything. It's way more complicated than that

I think you can. You can completely distill it down to the simple reality that one is growing on the other is not. There's no clever nuance that handwaves that fundamental fact away.

A single protocol seems to be very limited, especially if your collection of music is purely physical, and for a lot of people it is

> The real problem was almost no one had a CD player not even in their car!

That's wild. Popping in a CD is part of the road trip experience!

I remember the frustration of hitting a washboarded dirt road and the CD jumping around and messing playback.