Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car

• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 to be concerned with.

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  • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    like worker protections or unions

    That’s just patently false. en.wikipedia.org/…/All-China_Federation_of_Trade_…

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • Saurok@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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. www.china-briefing.com/news/minimum-wages-China/

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • Saurok@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Glad you learned something!

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  • Greyghoster@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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