Subj : How far I've come...
To   : Rob Mccart
From : Moondog
Date : Sun Jan 29 2023 01:12 pm

  Re: How far I've come...
  By: Rob Mccart to DUMAS WALKER on Sat Jan 28 2023 12:48 am

 > DW>It is difficult to make something of the same quality at the same price
 >   >point when the entity you are competing against pays their employees so
 >   >much less and can also use slave labor from the re-education camps.
 > 
 > Commenting on all the messages referring to China, not just this one, China
 > have a different attitude than we do about business. A company will run at a
 > loss for 10 or 20 years until they put all the competition out of business a
 > then they raise their prices to make a profit. Western countries do not plan
 > that far in advance. They want immediate profits.
 > 
 > Wages are not that low in China. Just checking the most recent figures say
 > the average worker there makes just over $54,000 (US) a year, not exactly
 > slave labour.
 > 
 > They do work efficiently.. I recall years back, probably when wages were qui
 > a bit lower there, a big US manufacturer of sporting goods was making footba
 > helmets in the USA. But, they were shipping the helmets to China to have the
 > mouth guards attached, and then shipping them back since that was cheaper th
 > doing it in the USA.
 > 
 > Also, the Chinese gov't hates paying people to do nothing. They will keep a
 > factory operating that is failing miserably, and then dump the products on
 > foreign markets at ridiculously low prices, rather than let the company shut
 > down.
 > 
 > Ironically, they will also mechanize a plant to make more products using few
 > workers to increase the potential profits where Unions here would never stan
 > for that.
 > 
 > It's hard to compete with that sort of mentality.

The country also restricts travel from one province to another to regluate
jobs and commerce.  This ia a way to keep farmers' families in farming, so
their kids won't leave in puruit of better manufacturing jobs.

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