I have had this question that I wanted to explore with Victoria since I saw you a few weeks ago,

and we were talking about this briefly, which is what the fuck is up with the American auto manufacturing

industry? Why is it the way that it is? And how come at a time where nothing seems more important

than the electric electrification of transport, the American auto industry has allowed the

electrification of transport to be taken forward industry has allowed the electric electrification of

transport to be taken forward by a series of hoaxters, including but not limited to Elon Musk. And then

the rest of the auto production capacity seems to be devoted to like the Ford F150 Big Dick edition

that has like a two foot square truck bed and then like a V-14 engine. Yeah.

Well, so, you know, obviously you've pointed out correctly in the conversations we've had in the past that, you know, China realized sometime in the 2000s that they were not going

to overtake us in internal combustion cars because we just had like a hundred-year head start.

And most of what they were making at this point was like cars under license or badge engineered stuff from like Azuzu or, you know, various Japanese companies. So they were like, okay, what if we do like battery electric cars? And they started doing this around the same time that, you know, Tesla was launching its first model, which was the roadster, if you remember that, which was kind of like a lotus chassis with a bunch of batteries strapped into it. They made like 4,000 of them. It's primarily

notable as the vehicle in Tony Stark's garage to signal that he's like cool with it. Back when

tech and entrepreneurs were like people that were admired instead of reviled. And, you know,

the pet theory that I've developed kind of in the

intervening decade is that the U.S. economy is not structured to allow us to transition to really

any other form of like transportation. We had the initial automobile revolution because we were

operating under a system of, you know, Fordist economics.

Um, is it okay if I just launched into this? Is this? Go for it. Go on.

Yeah. I just want to make sure that this is okay. This is, um, we're workers on a board.

And Victoria is consulting us in a way that's non-binding. I feel so included.

The concept of like CEO with anxiety is just so funny, honestly.

It's like all they talk about these days is the thing.

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