@admitsWrongIfProven i guess all enshitification is relative!

US prison labor definitely isn't in the US Tesla supply chain, where I'm not sure we can say forced labor in China isn't in EV supply chains. (Maybe we can! I don't know.) But I think even if, labor costs are not the big differentiator between US + Chinese capabilities. 1/

@admitsWrongIfProven The US now is planning to protect the domestic EV industry with huge tariffs on Chinese imports. That may be wise or not, but if it's true that China is just better at building and designing EVs, such strong protection will just leave the US with a modern equivalent of old Soviet Ladas, a substandard product that competes only in isolated markets. I'd hope we'd be more clever, but of course US incumbents do a lot of lobbying and don't mind this outcome. /fin