• Ulrich@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    the Chinese are really good at low cost manufacturing

    They’re not “good” at it, they just have no minimum wage and no semblance of annoying things like worker protections or unions to be concerned with.

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      22 hours ago

      They actually have a problem with workers or the lack of them and they have invested heavily in robotics. They aren’t the China of the 70s and 90s. It’s really something that we need to face up to if we want to compete but our political class isn’t really ready for that sort of reality. Years behind because of smugness.

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        18 hours ago

        We can’t compete with a country that pays their workers $1/hr without doing the same.

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        2 days ago

        Like all things in China, this is owned by the government, making it pointless.