Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "" video.
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Say what you want about China, but at least they are aggressively pushing the tech forward whiles aggressively pushing the price down for the tech to be useful.
I feel in the west, especially Europe and North America, they've been dragging their feet for way too long, we've seen that on EV cars, we're seeing signs of that with battery tech and with renewable tech like solar, which many are complaining about the flood of cheaper Chinese imports making native brands less competitive.
It's hard to feel sorry for the native brands when clean energy and battery solutions are needed sooner rather than later and need to be cheap, western companies and governments kept dragging their feet, that left the door open for new players to swoop in and take advantage of that by flooding the market and now they complain about price dumping.
Normally I would feel sorry for them but considering how many have tried to hold back progress in many of these areas, it's hard to feel sorry for them, and as a consumer, I don't care where I buy my tech from, just as long as the tech is good and the cost is low, it's high time that western companies and governments start becoming more aggressive on pushing tech forward whiles lowering the price point so it's more impactful for the mainstream markets.
But seriously, as the years go by, I'm buying more goods from Chinese brands without losing out on quality, the price point is just better and they seem more aggressive in wanting our custom.
As a European, I'm fed up with all the excuses we keep hearing for decades from car companies that went out of their way to slow the push to EV cars, now that it's starting to bite them on the arse in Europe and North America, well honestly, they are getting what they deserved and if they want to stay in the market, they better adapt and adapt fast, because they've already wasted too many years with excuses, and to put it another way, as a European, I'm not going to buy European just for the sake of it being European, I'm going to buy from who can deliver the best at the lowest price point, regardless of where it comes from around the world, and don't get me wrong, I'm all for protecting jobs and industry, but I'm not interested in excuses.
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