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[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Subsidizing them to kickstart them was absolutely right, both from a national and international perspective.

To not reap the reward but let it crumble was patently stupid.

The subsidies worked. Now we have matured, (somewhere else) mass produced technology on scale. It worked so well that now it's viable without subsidies.