I mean, I haven’t watched the video, but who thought manufacturing millions of inefficient metal behemoths was a good idea? And then whose brilliant idea was it to turn around and put out a call to scrap them all? It’s almost the definition of “busy work,” but blown up to incomprehensible macro scale.
It’s almost like if McDonald’s decided to make a duplicate of every incoming order but throw it away JUST so they could hit that “99 Billion Sold” milestone in half the time.
And yes, it meant that a lot of original purchasers just dumped their otherwise functional vehicle down the disposal rather than let it enter the used market.
—Patrick