No. I'm complaining that what they are getting is just a bandaid to the problem. These workers getting paid more won't stop executive bonuses and salaries from skyrocketing and the money to fund those bonuses will just be pulled from our pockets. Until some regulation is in place to fix the underlying issue, employers and employees will just keep trading blows and running up the cost. Everyone is acting like these car companies are suddenly going to stop doing what they've been doing for decades.

And very little of the recent explosion in car prices is from the manufacturers. It's the dealerships.

Just a few years ago NOBODY paid sticker price. That's still true, but now it's because the dealerships are charging 20-50 percent ABOVE stocker price

I'm not disagreeing with you but it seems naive to think that these companies would do anything but pass the cost along and keep paying execs way too much. Are we really under the assumption that car manufacturers are going to accept making less money?

Agreed but this strike isn't going to do that.

You never own the car any more, it runs closed source offline software that farms you for data. It is a rented tool for the neo digital feudal serf class. Ownership is only a right for citizens. Proprietary means ownership through a loss of agency. Once ownership rights are lost slavery follows. This is the true legacy of our time that people will talk about for hundreds of years.

Not sure where this is going.

Not bootlicking. Just being realistic about the capitalist tendencies of any large company beholden to shareholders.

It's a little more nuanced than that. Prices are always set to "what the market will bear." By complaining about the additional labor costs (or patting themselves on the back for their benevolence), they may be able to shift market attitudes to increase the price, thus 'passing it on."

That's not how it works because the majority of us don't get to adjust the rate of our labor on the fly. Passing the cost to consumers literally happens all the time and it's not a secret.

So you actually think this strike is going to fundamentally change how they do business? With no additional regulation they will just decide to make less money and make no attempt to do exactly what they've been doing all these years which is to increase profits at all costs.

I don't think most people buy a car they can actually afford anyways. They take loans with ridiculously long notes and as long as the payment from month to month sounds good they'll sign.