Al<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>AkaSci</span></a></span> <br>I remember, a long time ago, when we started to have fuel efficiency standards. The Japanese hired well educated engineers to solve the fuel efficiency problem, the US <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/bigCorp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigCorp</span></a> hired lawyers and lobbyist to go to DC to have our laws changed. </p><p>It is still going on today and in all areas of business.</p><p>Want a present day example.<br>our gov gives more grants to bigCorp for 4 wheel electric cars but not to <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/aptera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aptera</span></a> which has a well designed 3 wheel electric car....because it has 3 wheels.</p>