Is rampinomics back?
It will be the upcoming elections in the USA that send him into estrus, or perhaps it will be the European vicissitudes, it seems that two cockolitics (who are Federico MemoriaSelectiva Rampini and Herr Wolfgang “MiMiMi” Münchau. ) are spreading in the newspapers. And I'm sorry to always talk about them, but it seems that these are two #bullshit accelerators , selectively forgetful LHC bullshit, which will continue to work for a little while longer, shattering our balls into smaller particles. In short, a new color of quark, the fucking quark.
Today Rampini exercises his selective memory with the danger that Chinese cars could replace American ones. Their champion of the electric car, Elon Musk (and I said it all: you have to admit to me for having predicted the overrated stupidity of the character when he was still "cool"), I was saying their champion of the Electric Car is going through a bad time, he introduces himself at every show – when it appears – with the same models for ten years now, when a normal large house presents at least something new in every range, every year, and consequently continues to pay dearly for it. After all, Tesla has never made money by selling cars: it has always made money through the speculative effect of the "green bond" financial market.
And now that it gets serious, he clearly succumbs. I don't want to mention, out of pity, that sort of mess that comes from the graphics of an 80's video game, which he calls cybertruck.
However, now Rampini (like many others) is getting angry because the Chinese want to invade us with their surpluses. And here it starts with selective forgetfulness.
First of all, why does China exist as an industrial power when a few decades ago it wasn't even an industrialized country? Who produced this “miracle”?
Let's say it, dear forgetful Rampini:
- The companies of the American stock exchange have collected, for almost 20 years in a row, from 11 to 13 TRILLION dollars a year, to invest in China, to the point that NOTHING was no longer sold in the USA that was not, at least in part, Made in China. To the point that any company that decided to move into Chinese sweatshops (some had one to two million employees, crammed into human-sized chicken batteries) was rewarded on the NYSE with a nice rise. If he then fired the evil Western employees who asked for money to work, and even rights, the leap was assured.
- The companies of the London stock exchange, in cahoots with that of Hong Kong (despite knowing that the latter would come under the control of Beijing in 1999), have collected and moved in China, for the same 20 years of reference (1990/2010) , approximately 8 TRILLION dollars per year. And when we tried to protest about the collapse of employment in Europe, the response was that we didn't understand "the future", and that the "future" was in China.
- Even on the continental European stock exchanges, the collection was equally copious, with these enthusiastic capitalists explaining to us how we Europeans, accustomed to holidays, healthcare, and three meals a day, were the dinosaurs of excessive costs, and that also our obsession with breathable air and drinkable water was an exaggeration, because in China they let you do whatever you want, and screw the unions. What assholes we were, wanting to get home from work alive. And to underline the point, for 20 years, there has been just under ten TRILLION of capital raised in our stock exchanges and poured into China.
I would also like to remind Rampini of those who worked hard to get China into the WTO, reducing duties at the border. No, it wasn't aliens. It was the Americans.
As usual, Americans are very good at building the walls against which they will bang their faces in the future. And when they faced the fact that China was a power, and they can't coexist with other powers without war, their carrot-colored grouse (but also the chocolate-colored one from before), started whining that China was the bogeyman!
But how strange. But the question is: couldn't they have thought of it before investing 40% of the world's GDP in it for 20 years straight? (It's not to say that they definitely wouldn't have grown up. But at least they would have done so under the same conditions as others. It's called “Common Ground”).
The truth is that the market, which Rampini seems to adore, is made up of inflated balls led by overvalued idiots. Don't you believe it? Listen to Warren Buffett for half an hour straight. (if you notice, they don't make you listen to them for more than 4/5 minutes, so that you don't notice that they are dickheads) Listen to Musk speaking, always for half an hour straight. And you will realize that they are none other than Umberto Bossi with a lot of money. Give 300 billion to Trout, send him to the USA: he will be worshiped because he has 300 billion, and from that moment everything he says will be pure Oracle.
And this is where Rampini has a short memory, first act: he mentions the fact that the Chinese industry has destroyed German solar, but forgets when the US government, with an executive decree, blocked Siemens from installing wind farms in the US, hoping that General Electric bought the American division of Siemens. We were saying, Rampini, who has the German "green" industry affected?
But why does the USA always make the same mistake? Because the slavery mentality in the USA has NEVER disappeared. The slavery of blacks ended, coincidentally, together with the great migrations that brought millions of immigrants/slaves, who were the underpaid and mistreated workforce of the USA, and replaced the blacks. And when even these slaves of many colors became middle class, in the 80s and 90s, corporate America turned to China in search of a new slave, this time yellow (after a clumsy attempt to enslave ' the Mexicans, represented by NAFTA)
This is why we never heard anyone in the US complain when slaves worked FOR American industries. This is why we haven't heard anyone complain about the horrendous conditions of Chinese workers, the inhuman hours, the deaths from exhaustion, as long as they were producing Apple iPhones. For that matter, we have not heard Americans complain about slavery: Lincoln abolished it under the pressure of the Northern US lobbies, the industrialists, whose problem was mainly the fact that all the slaves were in the South, and the their factories did not benefit from it. And for the record, Lincoln was a Republican, not a Democrat. Slavery was fine with the Democrats of the period.
Not for nothing, the same industries in the North of the USA never had any scruples about using the new blacks, the immigrants, under the same conditions as slaves.
The US decision to use Chinese labor and relocate is due to the slave culture that characterizes the USA: “Work Hard” and “Be a good slave” are, in the minds of American entrepreneurs, the exact same expression of the exact same concept.
And it wasn't difficult to convince European entrepreneurs to return to the past. Including the Italian ones. Do you think their mentality is different, after counting 1100 deaths a year at work?
And this is Rampini's selective memory: forgetting that the problem he complains about did not fall from the sky. The Chinese are not Martians. And that whole economic system was built using the money of American and European idiots, the geniuses of the stock exchanges who were so adored on both sides of the Atlantic, precisely by those who now fear it.
Dear Rampini, the ones who built the enemy you fear so much were those who speak like you. That is, those financiers who really have money and put it where their mouths speak, and those like you who talk like them without having their money, hoping that some rich person will slip some money into their thong. You are the strippers of "rich" propaganda.
Done with Rampini's Rich Propaganda, now let's get to the real problem: electric cars.
Let's clarify the central point first.
The transition to electric simplifies the construction of a car, to the point that electric cars should cost about a quarter of combustion ones. Which should already cost, both for the economy of scale and for the maturity of the technique, half of what they cost.
Do you know that electric SUV that costs 100,000 euros? The right price would be 12,500 euros. More change, less change. And this makes you understand how much room for maneuver the Chinese have to compete with the Europeans and Americans. Tesla, which sells a ten-year-old model for the same price, cannot compete.
You dug your own grave when, despite knowing the laws of the market, you decided that it made sense to spend 100,000 dollars on a car that, if REALLY produced on a large scale, should cost 15,000. And you convinced your customers. Congratulations, idiots, you dug your own grave.
Not to mention the history of SUV-ization of everything, literally everything. Nowadays every vehicle is becoming an SUV, and I expect to see SUV washing machines and dishwashers on the market soon. And this is because using ONLY ONE car model, it is possible to manufacture the platforms to scale, the bodies to scale, to the point that distinguishing one car from another, in the same range, now becomes a sommelier's question.
But where is this immense saving, which translates into manufacturers' profits, reflected? Certainly not on the price. We reflect on the fact that in a moment of "crisis" the automotive causes themselves earn MORE, their value INCREASES on the stock market, and their top managers take home immoral bonuses.
If you intend to throw in my face the trite "but this allows us to pay the European workforce the highest sums, and all the Fordist enema of the case", stop: even in Europe wealth is being concentrated in a few hands, so Ford's redistribution is NOT IT IS AN ACTUAL PHENOMENON. It works in theory, maybe it worked in the past, but today we SEE NO TRACE OF IT.
What do I mean?
I want to say that the right price for an electric car is the Chinese price. But not the price in Europe: the one in China. Ditto for combustion cars.
And the Western companies dug their own grave the moment they decided, by forming a cartel, that the right prices for cars were Western ones.
And don't mention the history of state subsidies, because if there is an industry that has always saved cars by dint of protectionism (for example, forcing the use of increasingly sophisticated protection systems even where it would have been enough to reduce the maximum speed, as in the case of E BS)
And if Rampini has something to say, he can always give himself a reality enema. Because reality is here to stay, and such a distortion of the market, and I repeat “market”, cannot last too long.
And no, finding other slaves is increasingly difficult.
The market that you seem to adore so much, little penman, is not a beneficent God who spends his day solving people's problems. It's just a game. The Game. And he's not there to make you win.
But if you shake your ass well, maybe some rich guy will put a bill in your thong. Get busy, Rampini: Work Harder!
Uriel Fanelli
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