• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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          22 hours ago

          That’s also not how that works. China can get away with having cheap labor because it also has cheap cost of living. But the cost of living in the US is ridiculously high. These tariffs are only going to make the cost of living go up.

      • quoll@lemmy.sdf.org
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        20 hours ago

        because it was cheaper labor

        at some point, eventually, maybe… american’s will come to realise chinas economic growth and domination of manufacturing and technology is built on a far more sophisticated suite of policies (good and bad) then they have been brainwashed into believing.

        huawei isn’t huawei bc they pay their employees less.

        you should jump on a plane and check it out, genuinely fun country to travel in and you will learn a lot.

        no im not a tankie, taiwan fucking rocks.

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          19 hours ago

          That’s a dumb argument, labor in the 80s when we started to shift heavily into China was factually orders of magnitude cheaper and they had almost no labor regulations. Now sure they have more protections but that isn’t reflective of years gone by.