Comment on The New York Times Just Published Some Bizarre Race Science About Asian Women
iopq@lemmy.world 4 days agoChinese wages are not actually that low. In Beijing it’s ¥26.4 which is $3.66
US federal minimum wage is $7.25
Comment on The New York Times Just Published Some Bizarre Race Science About Asian Women
iopq@lemmy.world 4 days agoChinese wages are not actually that low. In Beijing it’s ¥26.4 which is $3.66
US federal minimum wage is $7.25
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Yet for these types of jobs, nobody gets paid minimum wage, even $15/hr is probably low. What is the typical Chinese employee making for this type of work?
iopq@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Also several times the minimum wage. The minimum wage jobs are the do nothing jobs like door man.
The fact is, the difference is in concentration. You have millions of workers in Shenzhen all in the same area doing similar jobs. It makes it easy to ask one factory to manufacture a thing and the one next door to assemble it.