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Auto company profit margins provide further evidence supporting your hypothesis (modern car requirements are just inherently more expensive).

The auto companies whose profit margins I checked are in the single-digits, sometimes negative. If it was just greedy price gouging, we'd expect them to see much healthier profit margins.

I don't understand why people don't check these figures more often for these publicly traded companies when offering the 'companies are being greedy' narratives.