You are right. It is not conspiracy theory.Who woulda' thunk?
Actually, I got quite a bit of push-back right here when I suggested big auto was using chip shortages as an excuse to limit production and increase ASP's while covering up a lack of demand. When word gets out that people are not buying ICE because EV is the new thing, well, it's going to cause ICE sales to collapse even quicker. Big auto will continue to pretend there is not a demand problem for ICE vehicles until it's so obvious they are starting to look foolish to the average Joe.
A few very vocal people treated this theory like it was a whacky conspiracy theory. Did I really think this whole chip shortage was a huge conspiracy? No, the chip shortage was real but that doesn't mean the big OEMs won't hide behind it. Of course we still don't have absolute confirmation yet but it's been looking like that for some time and that look just got stronger.
As mentioned previously, big corporations teach classes in good excuses [euphemistically titled “communicating to upper management”].
The chip shortage would be the textbook one to select and present. Some element of truth. In the news. Can be credibly parroted further upstream. Blame is external, so you are a team player.
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Telling your bosses that they “developed an inferior product, that one has to pay people to take, because the company metrics encourage and support that behavior” is not greeted with the same enthusiasm as “global chip shortage.”
So it is taught in a general sense. I guess that makes it a normalized behavior rather than a conspiracy.
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