John Deere brags about sabotaging competitors & customers on hot mic - they’re PROUD of it!

    • jampacked@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Sounds like a screamy no context statement in vague cannibalistic threat form, fed made.

        • pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz
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          1 year ago

          Not necessarily. A bunch of us could band together and fund a bunch of folks who are good at building shit and just commission them to design and build new tractors that are easily repairable – preferably electric too – and then sell them. And this effort could be incorporated as a non-profit, which itself legally can own businesses and those businesses could sell them at a profit, and kill off John Deere’s shitty-ass company and any other shitbirds that want to take away consumers’ rights to own their own products.

        • grayman@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Look up Edison Motors. A literal logger in Canada is beating out every truck company with investors. People are excited and lining up to buy them (logging companies anyway).

          What he’s doing with logging trucks can be done with tractors.

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              1 year ago

              What is it? 90% of companies fail in under 3 years?

              I get it. Still cool to see someone try and try well.

          • steltek@lemm.ee
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            1 year ago

            Wow, that’s a cool little company. Also, “Stealing Tesla’s Ideas”, ha.

            Related to the sibling comment, good ideas are rarely the whole story to a company’s success. Execution (and luck) matter.

            I’m going to need to read up more on them. The jump from “regular truck drivers who do repairs” to “so we put a locomotive drivetrain in our truck” is too big and I think it’s really the key to them getting off the ground.