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  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Ford could put all their R&D money into developing low-cost EVs, but they’d prefer to give the cops a handout.

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      4 months ago

      Ford could put all their R&D money into developing low-cost EVs,

      Thus making the EVs very expensive… just sayin’

      Edit: I don’t know why you are downvoting. These are economic realities as they exist today. More R&D => greater costs => higher price. Fully Automated Luxury Communism is, unfortunately, not a likely reality in our lifetimes.

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          4 months ago

          By minimizing costs, including R&D. Further, the lower the price the lower the profit and usually the lower the margin. Companies are not incentivitized to make less money.

          This is pretty basic stuff…

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            4 months ago

            Companies are not incentivitized to make less money.

            If only it were physically possible to change that. Alas, the fifth law of thermodynamics says profit above all.