Holding things together with metal is generally a more durable solution. There are some factors that can mitigate this, but in something like a car… well, maybe he was talking about interior bits and not the guts or body. But he gave me the impression that this replacement was widespread, which would be a strong indicator that the car was a “real car” in the sense that it has four wheels and an engine, but not in the sense that it showed other cars were “high cost.”
I’m not very concerned about problems from this, even were it to become widespread—capitalism is pretty good at what it does. My point was that I don’t feel like this demonstrates that we’re stuck doing things the hard way; it at best opens up a new market niche and at worst, doesn’t. It seems to be just normal capitalism making tradeoffs to explore the market, even if the speaker sometimes hides the tradeoffs.
I think we need information about whether adhesives have improved enough to be satisfactory for structural joins in a car.
Capitalism (whether normal or not) is affected by what people believe is possible and worth doing. I believe that opportunities to make profits frequently don’t get noticed for a while until someone thinks to look in that direction.
Holding things together with metal is generally a more durable solution. There are some factors that can mitigate this, but in something like a car… well, maybe he was talking about interior bits and not the guts or body. But he gave me the impression that this replacement was widespread, which would be a strong indicator that the car was a “real car” in the sense that it has four wheels and an engine, but not in the sense that it showed other cars were “high cost.”
I’m not very concerned about problems from this, even were it to become widespread—capitalism is pretty good at what it does. My point was that I don’t feel like this demonstrates that we’re stuck doing things the hard way; it at best opens up a new market niche and at worst, doesn’t. It seems to be just normal capitalism making tradeoffs to explore the market, even if the speaker sometimes hides the tradeoffs.
I think we need information about whether adhesives have improved enough to be satisfactory for structural joins in a car.
Capitalism (whether normal or not) is affected by what people believe is possible and worth doing. I believe that opportunities to make profits frequently don’t get noticed for a while until someone thinks to look in that direction.