Thanks but the quality of the article is so low full of handwavy out of touch opinions dethatched form the real world. Like this: "This means Europe[...] should stop mourning old industries and ensure it can harness the power of AI and other new technologies to boost productivity."
It's like the author only looked at a graph and decided everything is rosy and you just need to add some AI on top to be perfect. And even funnier, the graph used in the article is from 2024. Like bro, you're 2 years out of date. Industry today, especially automotive is way worse than it was in 2024.
Sorry, but this isn't in any way a well researched article, but more of armchair Redditor opinion piece.
China makes products across all quality levels now, and local industry often cannot compete with China on price. Even if you don’t want to buy from China, the Chinese product will be compelling for a lot of people.
Sometimes that cheap shit is better than European made stuff, unfortunately. I've had to order shoelaces from Aliexpress, because the only brand sold by my local supermarket (made in EU) is poor quality and breaks quickly. The Aliexpress version I found is half the price and much more durable. And don't get me even started on bathroom equipment... So much low quality crap is being sold, no matter where it was made.
C'mon man. Cheap shit is the best way to raise quality of living for low income/poor families. You can buy everyday useful things for your home at like 1/3 of the price in those Chinese shops in many EU countries (Spain being a prime example with a lot of them everywhere).
There is huge demand for it and it is perpetual. Just walk into those stores and see how many people shop there.
This sort of reasoning was always stupid, but it was more excusable before LLMs. Now that there's LLMs everywhere inflating word-counts with slop, you'd think that people would have learned by now to appreciate when an author doesn't over inflate an article which doesn't need to be very long.
https://archive.is/bXhHH
Thanks but the quality of the article is so low full of handwavy out of touch opinions dethatched form the real world. Like this: "This means Europe[...] should stop mourning old industries and ensure it can harness the power of AI and other new technologies to boost productivity."
It's like the author only looked at a graph and decided everything is rosy and you just need to add some AI on top to be perfect. And even funnier, the graph used in the article is from 2024. Like bro, you're 2 years out of date. Industry today, especially automotive is way worse than it was in 2024.
Sorry, but this isn't in any way a well researched article, but more of armchair Redditor opinion piece.
It's Economist, their reporting in Europe was always very heavily biased and not very well researched.
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Everyone has bought all the cheap shit that they could ever buy from china. There isnt perpetual demand for cheap chinese stuff. PPl are sick of it.
China makes products across all quality levels now, and local industry often cannot compete with China on price. Even if you don’t want to buy from China, the Chinese product will be compelling for a lot of people.
Sometimes that cheap shit is better than European made stuff, unfortunately. I've had to order shoelaces from Aliexpress, because the only brand sold by my local supermarket (made in EU) is poor quality and breaks quickly. The Aliexpress version I found is half the price and much more durable. And don't get me even started on bathroom equipment... So much low quality crap is being sold, no matter where it was made.
Why do you think there isn't perpetual demand for cheaper goods and why do you think people in general are sick of cheaper goods?
He's not talking about "cheaper goods", he's talking about "cheap shit" - thats different things...
Does.not address what I'm asking. It's a blanket statement without evidence.
C'mon man. Cheap shit is the best way to raise quality of living for low income/poor families. You can buy everyday useful things for your home at like 1/3 of the price in those Chinese shops in many EU countries (Spain being a prime example with a lot of them everywhere).
There is huge demand for it and it is perpetual. Just walk into those stores and see how many people shop there.
Yeah those bazars as they call them. They're even owned and operated by Chinese usually.
A lot of the stuff is comparable to ones in more upmarket shops because really it's the same stuff anyway. Just with less markup
WOW, the want you to pay for articles like these? It's just a handful of paragraphs
This sort of reasoning was always stupid, but it was more excusable before LLMs. Now that there's LLMs everywhere inflating word-counts with slop, you'd think that people would have learned by now to appreciate when an author doesn't over inflate an article which doesn't need to be very long.
it's a whole magazine. you pay for the magazine, not this one article.
Ah, that makes sense
If they can write the same with fewer words, it is better.
It’s so shallow I learned nothing and way too short as well.
You could ask an LLM to make it longer