Chinese citizens get cheap cars funded by government R&D money.

Who's been dicked here?
The car companies take government money and build cars
The car dealers buy them real cheap and sell at a profit
The consumers get cheap cars

The only ones "losing" money are the government. But they're just printing it. And building a massive manufacturing industry with development capability as well. Selling on a global market to everyone else at prices no one else can compete with.

These people don't seem to understand that China is not capitalist.

The Government won't allow it. They'll fund failing companies, write off debts, what every they want to keep things going.
All of these companies have Government representatives on their boards. A large number are partially Government owned.

Only $8 for premium economy on a long haul flight across the Pacific.

In terms of relative prices, a economy flight from LAX might be $900, premium economy $1,500 and business class is more like $12,000 and first class is $20,000

So less than 1% tax. 0.5% for premium economy and 0.16% for first class.

Step two is a GM app store
Step three is subscriptions for all the apps in your car. Cruise control? There's an app for that. Aircon? App for that too.

Buy a second hand car? You'll need to pay for all the options the original buyer already paid for.

Sirius paid good money to have their software preinstalled. How are customers have the ability to remove it

Audi: We don't test third party software before updating your car, and the apps can crash the OS. Das Auto.

The link doesn't need encryption if the application layer is encrypted.

Relying on link encryption is an illusion. As soon as the packets hit the internet, it's open.

Police radio? CB radio?
If you don't want data to be read. encrypt it. Don't rely on the links to protect you. As soon as your WiFi data gets to the AP, it's no longer encrypted.

If Stallantis falls, there won't be anyone to push more bugs OTA.

Translated: Just spend a shit ton of money building infrastructure

In Sydney, that have the problem of too much solar, with prices going negative. Too much rooftop solar back feeding local distribution networks.

The politicians are too far in the pockets of the mining industry to step away from coal.

Mass migration.... if you take out immigration, the USA population is in a big decline. Declining birth rate and increasing emigration.
If you include immigration, it's sitting around 0.12% and projected to go negative soon.

Murder is wrong.
Like stopping someones cancer treatment because you want to extract more profit from the cancer clinic.

It's only a matter of time until a wave of wrongful death lawsuits come their way.

Maybe people want to work somewhere that isn't a random startup in an immature industry, where most of them won't exist in 6 months time.
As soon as these startups fail a round of funding, they're gone. If they're "successful" they get bought out and all the employees either get fired, or have to sign new contracts. Goodbye $500k salary, I hope you had a large stock option.

Such low pay, $490,000 and $500,000