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That could be said about anything really. The Chinese companies will inevitably fail because they will never venture outside of china in any meaningful way that would be sustainable for them.

The Zaibatsus will fail because of aging population and traditionalism. The Chaebols will fail because of archaic hierarchy of the korean society.

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I am sorry but I am not following. What can be said about anything? That it will fail for some reason? Fine, but what does that have to do with the particular point of the ownership structures of German car makers?

They way i understood your comment is that the german car makers will fail because of inherited wealth. I am saying all of them can fail due to cultural differences. It just happens that the american can do attitude works the best and is global or tries to be global.

Everything will fail, so why not instead of trying to keep particular instances alive as long as possible, optimize the system to be less shocked when any single piece fails?

In my mind, this means dis-incentivizing scale. Replace 10000 people dependent on one entity with 10 entities each dependent on 1000. Get rid of mergers and vertical integration and fight accumulated wealth..?

To be honest, the new generation of cars already destroys the sub-contractor culture the car companies used to squeeze manunfactoring costs down. Even the german mail company was able to build there own e-delivery truck, so there is that.

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