Trade is always beneficial to both sides. I find it quite silly for people who say they support free trade but then claim this kind of bs. If the trade isn't beneficial, then they simply won't trade. And if is then they will receive a benefit from the trade. But trade is decisions by individuals, and shouldn't be up to donald tramp and his tramp crew. What your describing is asymmetry between countries in trade. The Hecksher Ohlin model describes the relationship quite well and the relationship is natural. For the same reason the whole complaing about how X country is subsidising their Y products and ruining our country, is just rich corporate bs. It's focused on business owners and not consumers. Why should I pay for a product when I know my marginal utility/marginal cost is higher with the other product? So I can put more money into some rich asshole's ass pocket? While you might be rich enough to sit complain about things being too cheap, some of us have bills to pay. And I see no reason to pay more so you can make money off the rest of us.
Dune is soft sci fi. TBP is hard sci fi. They're very different formats of stories. Good hard SF generally doesn't have character development. In fact character development is a kind of subgenre called bildungsroman. I don't know why ppl these days expect characters to change as though it's some inherent part of a book. Some books are thought experiments or about world building. Part of reading for me is to try experiencing something novel. But on your hate for TBP, I'd say the huge fanbase, the Hugo committee and Obama would disagree with you on that one.
Yeah maybe. Pretty sure Nio will tank though. Building car owner club houses despite their losses is weird. I don't understand why they don't spend money on improving their product.
I got the impression you feel that's a bad thing, but I think it's just me. To me a rational governments would want its country to grow. And economic growth is accomplished by having new or growing businesses.
I agree Tesla was allowed as part of their benefit. I don't think Tesla benefits any of those Chinese automakers. No one wants a competitor. Sure, Tesla would help the crap companies die faster and force the rest to adapt to higher standards. But I think the real intention is for Chinese consumers to benefit from a superior and less polluting product. They are aggressively environmental nowadays afterall.
Yep that's cuz we practice Evidence Based Medicine. If it works, it works, we don't care for the mechanism. Mechanism of action is only ever a hypothesis anyways.
But as a 2nd point, we don't always do things by evidence either. Obstetrics is an example of an entire field where there is not much evidence, and people practice what was passed down to them. The reason is because often you cannot do an RCT in an ethical way with Obs.
Additionally, often times when we prescribe a medication/treatment, there is a really significant chance it won't do anything for you. The number needed to treat before one person experiences a benefit could be quite high, like 10 or 15. We still do it if the benefit outweigh the risk.
TLDR: We don't care how it works just that it works. Some fields like obstetrics have little evidence for many things. And just cuz there is evidence, doesn't mean it'll help most of the ppl who get it.