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Perhaps a contractor is defrauding the government, submitting an open source project as their own development work?

The feds didn't negotiate anything, the article the company sponsoring Data Tables is planning to take action against the government.

Mandarin is not widely spoken in Hong Kong-- locals speak Cantonese and Mandarin was not taught in school while HK was under British rule.

Costco is more concentrated in higher wage, higher cost states on the West Coast. They'd love to extend California wage rates to Walmart's red state operations.

Society's income, or capacity to work, isn't a fixed pie.

It isn't "fear" of change, it is that political systems get captured by status quo interest groups that fight against change.

High marginal tax rates in Europe take away the incentive to create a startup, and the governments there confiscate much more of the winnings from successful companies. That, in turn, ensures that there is little venture capital to invest in the next generation of startups.

This practice is part of the problem. It is bidding up the cost of apartments for locals who need a place to live.

Actually, Daimler-Mercedes bought 10% of Tesla a month before the U.S. government announced the loan. U.S. taxpayers are going to get the downside if the company fails but the European automaker gets the upside if it makes it. Well played.

Look, Tesla is billed as being greener than traditional autos but it is not. Drawing power from the grid is amazingly wasteful, and is often COAL. Trading oil for coal is not an environmental win-- Tesla's basic premise is a fraud. It reminds me of ethanol, another big government effort for the "environment" which makes things worse.

A wealthy "investor" in a rigged game-- a company backed by half a billion dollars in taxpayer loan guarantees-- gets a new toy car. A car for which there is no market and is worse for the environment than regular cars, as it relies on toxic batteries and an inefficient power grid that is majority coal burning.

Tesla is a crony capitalist scam, they are burning though nearly half billion in guaranteed loans from the U.S. government. This car is WORSE for the environment than regular autos (inefficiently powered across the grid by coal power plants, uses toxic hazardous batteries) and there is no market here. Tesla's lobbyists and insider investors (including Mercedes) are already cashed out with the IPO. Taxpayers stand to lose their entire "investment."