• PapaStevesy@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I didn’t even know we were racing. What are the results, are we, like, not allowed to do solar power now? What does China get for winning, a free car or something?

    Seriously, why does everything have to be framed as some kind of zero-sum international “race”?

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      2 days ago

      It means that the economic benefits of being the world’s low-cost producer go to people in China instead of the US.

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        They’re not stealing the sunshine from us, it hits them over there. We can still make more solar panels, we haven’t lost anything irretrievably.

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          No, bit the point is that china is making the for themselves and everyone else.