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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

While they are subsidised, the Chinese are really good at low cost manufacturing. It’s not the cheap labour anymore but factory automation and robotics. They really outclass anyone else.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

like worker protections or unions

That's just patently false. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-China_Federation_of_Trade_Unions

It is the largest trade union in the world with 302 million members in 1,713,000 primary trade union organizations.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month 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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

China doesn't have a national minimum wage, but minimum wage is delegated to the local level there and definitely exists in every single province. Just echoing what the other user said, literally everything you said here is easily disprovable. https://www.china-briefing.com/news/minimum-wages-China/

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Beijing has the highest hourly minimum wage (RMB 26.4/US$3.7 per hour)

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Glad you learned something!

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