• quoll@lemmy.sdf.org
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    23 hours ago

    because it was cheaper labor

    at some point, eventually, maybe… american’s will come to realise chinas economic growth and domination of manufacturing and technology is built on a far more sophisticated suite of policies (good and bad) then they have been brainwashed into believing.

    huawei isn’t huawei bc they pay their employees less.

    you should jump on a plane and check it out, genuinely fun country to travel in and you will learn a lot.

    no im not a tankie, taiwan fucking rocks.

    • Madison420@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      That’s a dumb argument, labor in the 80s when we started to shift heavily into China was factually orders of magnitude cheaper and they had almost no labor regulations. Now sure they have more protections but that isn’t reflective of years gone by.

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        29 minutes ago

        Labor protections are necessary and good, however China also has more robust social welfare in general, that’s less cost out of their pocket meaning their wages don’t necessarily have to be as high to have a similar standard of living elsewhere.

        Not saying they do, but on the whole they don’t have the same level of disparity we have in the US for instance.