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  • Well… Gimli remained unmarried and never had children. Legolas remained unmarried and never had children. After the destruction of the ring they travelled the world together and were the closest of friends…

    This is Tolkiens equivalent of your aunt living with her best “friend” and never having kids…






  • Sure, but they also suffer the consequences of their own focus on pushing out more and more SUV’s instead of focusing on EV. Volkswagen actually made the correct choice going fully for EV’s, but then backtracked under shareholder pressure. And the EU as a whole failed to protect local battery production and technology, allowing itself (although this also goes for the US, Japan and South-Korea) to become completely dependent on Chinese raw materials refinement and battery production and technology.

    China on the other hand, not suffering from fair and free elections, had a much easier time keeping its eye on the ball and sticking with a coherent long term vision.

    That being said, I do think it’s good for Germany to become less dependent on their car industry. They have a lot of industries screaming for highly qualified employees and the car industry has been vacuuming up a majority of those. These people becoming available for other industries will provide significant benefits as well.