Subj : How far I've come...
To   : DUMAS WALKER
From : Rob Mccart
Date : 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 and
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 quite
a bit lower there, a big US manufacturer of sporting goods was making football
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 than
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 fewer
workers to increase the potential profits where Unions here would never stand
for that.

It's hard to compete with that sort of mentality.
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