• Greyghoster@aussie.zone
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    2 days ago

    While they are subsidised, the Chinese are really good at low cost manufacturing. It’s not the cheap labour anymore but factory automation and robotics. They really outclass anyone else.

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      1 day 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 or unions to be concerned with.

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        13 hours 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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          8 hours ago

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

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          1 day ago

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