I mean what on earth is an automaker doing with 700,000 employees?
General Motors employs 163,000[1]. Ford employs 177,000[2].
[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GM/general-motors/...
[2] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/F/ford-motor/numbe...
Honda is the only one who comes close to Tesla.
And is the relevant measure, as all auto manufacturers employ job shops for various parts.
I don't care if Tesla or Honda manufactured a part in a building under their logo. I care that they invested in US infrastructure and paid US citizens to build the car I drive. That's what country of origin measures.
Heaven forbid we have to fight another war and all the factories and skilled tradespeople are in Mexico or Canada.
We can keep going back and forth. It doesn't change the numbers.
Under communism, there are no billionaires. China has several hundred billionaires.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of...
China allows these billionaires to exist as long as they play ball and toe the party line, because China still owns a controlling share in every Chinese company that exists.
> Ma is an icon in China’s tech industry, one of its most successful and recognizable figures at home and abroad. He was speaking weeks before Alibaba subsidiary Ant Group, owner of the world’s largest digital payments platform, Alipay, was due to go public in Shanghai and Hong Kong. It would have been the biggest initial public offering anywhere in the world. On November 2, 2020, a week after his speech, Ma was summoned for questioning by the same regulators he’d challenged from the stage. Days later, Ant Group’s $34 billion stock market listing was suspended. For nearly three months, Ma disappeared from public view.
That's not different on the West. At least in China you know how much the government owns. In the West it's decided every year by unstable politicians.
It's entirely different, since this doesn't happen in the West. When did a billionaire get disappeared for re-education in the West last time? When was one forced to stop an IPO or sell their shares?
I come from an ex-communist country myself and I can tell you that what the political class was doing back then was definitely not "for the people". If you were part of the political elite (or a boot-licker) you had access to fancy things like cheese and chocolate, got to travel outside of the country, could occupy a good job, and other benefits.
I've seen corporations & billionaires run out of control like in the US where political bribery is legal and the government ends up catering to the 0.1% and not the majority of their constituents, and I'm not a fan of this, though I don't think the problem is democracy.
The Chinese government enjoys massive support, mostly from poorer rural populations. Western views don't quite believe it, and think it's all an excuse to hold power, but they take the notion of not letting rich people take over the state, quite seriously, especially nowadays.
Vietnam today might be even less communist than China.
I would agree that Vietnam is probably less communist than China. That doesn't really impact my point.
That is the key component of all communist countries we have had experiences of it but in theory you could see a country adopting a communist constitution and multiple parties fighting over elections to govern and decide on the specifics. So it is not really a key component of communism.
Human greed makes it so that it wouldn't last for long though.
You can split hairs about marxist-leninist communism and politburos and some sort of pure economic communism, but that mostly seems like pedantry.
Your point is that all red cars with a prancing horse logo are Ferrari. What I am telling you is you will find plenty of red pontiac fiero and toyota MR2 looking like Ferrari up to the prancing horse logo from very far away but when you go much closer or hear them revving it quickly become obvious these are body kits on top of cars that don't have a single genuine Ferrari part inside.