• derpgon@programming.dev
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    16 hours ago

    Also labor price is unmatched. Nobody would work for the wage they give to children in China, so you can’t really go that much cheaper while not sacrificing safety.

    Not saying Chinese cars are that well made.

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      15 hours ago

      Very few children work in china right now, Chinese workers even have 5 days of vacation a year by law.

      That’s 5 more than the US…

      There were probably more children working on farms in the US than in china, and I remember something about Florida wanting to reinstate child labour again?

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      14 hours ago

      That’s true, but we could subsidize the cost of labor too. People make a living wage, but the company pays less than that because government covers the difference.

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      15 hours ago

      China has compulsory education for children just like America. There’s no child labor in China.

      They pay adult workers less in China, but these yuan has 7x buying power than the dollar in China

      • derpgon@programming.dev
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        14 hours ago

        That’s what Chinese propagandists want you to think, there are way more people living in (borderline) poverty (per capita) than in the US.

        Social media is being fed with a slice of mainland China, but anything beyond that is people struggling to keep ends meet.