Exploitative sweatshop labour pays dividends for us westerners, doesn’t it?
j4k3@piefed.world 23 hours ago
Awesome. As an American consumer, China is doing far more for me than the corrupt USA.
yucandu@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
Lmao when china does it, its sweatshop labour and when western companies pay their labour pennies its the fault of the workers for being lazy.
I get the feeling if this was a us company, people like you would have been chanting this as a success of capitalism that will increase competition and decrease prices.
j4k3@piefed.world 21 hours ago
Better than a million feral humans sent back to live as animals in urban nature and corrupt wage slavery for pirate banker commodity housing, not to mention the Flock-You surveillance state that is stealing citizenship and democracy right now. When Citizen is functionally equivalent to Slave, China looks far better. "You will own nothing and be happy about it.” -because slaves that speak up find themselves dead. I’ll take a sweatshop over this corruption any day.
Eldritch@piefed.world 19 hours ago
Nearly everything you mentioned there could be said about China as well though. So, how? In what way does it make China look better? Serious question. And not a defense of the west out the US.
ragica@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
There is a general perception now with many in the US and even more among the US’s partners that the US government is now actively regressive, making life more difficult for most of its citizens and partners, and indeed the world. China, despite its shortcomings, is mostly seen as making progress at raising living standards, moving more towards being environmentally responsible, and as a stable and predictable partner.
Whatever the complicated on the ground realities, these are some of the ways that make China currently seem to look better too many. Since you ask.
hushable@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
greetings from Kansas province
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
China has been doing more for you and I as American consumers than the USA for the past like 60 years. China is the manufacturing superpower of the world.