This is a super important point. You go to Home Depot and you see something with the American flag on it. You turn it over - “Made in the USA with domestic and global materials.” Read - a lot of Chinese inputs, parts and subassemblies. That along with a small markup for the fellow poorly paid American assembly worker, and a huge markup for the corporation owner. Cut the middle man and let the American worker deal with him many-on-one - something that has to happen anyways, if this shit is to ever get better.
with a small markup for the fellow poorly paid American assembly worker
You forget that the fellow poorly paid Chinese assembly worker endures even more hardship under a coerced labour regime. We must have transparent global supply chains - something China has been lobbying against for years - ‘if this shit is to ever get better.’
I haven’t. Us cutting the US middle man can only affect my fellow Chinese worker positively since there’s more money left from the transaction without that middle man and less leverage to depress her pay, ceteris paribus.
Oh, no, your fellow Chinese worker will still suffer from forced labour under the same regime while the markup goes the corporation owner. It’s just now a Chinese company owner under the control of a dictator. That’s the same thing, but you criticize the one and praise the other. What a hypocrisy.
The vast majoriry of manufacturing in China has always been done by Chinese companies. Goods we buy from Walmart aren’t made by Walmart factories in China, employing Chinese workers. Walmart finds the cheapest Chinese manufacturer of trays then orders their Great Value branded version, shipped straight from the factory to the Walmart distribution hub. Walmart is the middle man. We cut them. The existing employer of the Chinese worker making the trays remains unchanged. There’s no hypocrisy. We’re cutting the most profit-hungry middle man from the supply chain is all. We know how things work.
Everything we buy from the US is made in China anyway, so we’re just cutting out the middleman.
If we can eliminate US IP protection next then we can build our own technology and do away with them completely.
This is a super important point. You go to Home Depot and you see something with the American flag on it. You turn it over - “Made in the USA with domestic and global materials.” Read - a lot of Chinese inputs, parts and subassemblies. That along with a small markup for the fellow poorly paid American assembly worker, and a huge markup for the corporation owner. Cut the middle man and let the American worker deal with him many-on-one - something that has to happen anyways, if this shit is to ever get better.
You forget that the fellow poorly paid Chinese assembly worker endures even more hardship under a coerced labour regime. We must have transparent global supply chains - something China has been lobbying against for years - ‘if this shit is to ever get better.’
I haven’t. Us cutting the US middle man can only affect my fellow Chinese worker positively since there’s more money left from the transaction without that middle man and less leverage to depress her pay, ceteris paribus.
Oh, no, your fellow Chinese worker will still suffer from forced labour under the same regime while the markup goes the corporation owner. It’s just now a Chinese company owner under the control of a dictator. That’s the same thing, but you criticize the one and praise the other. What a hypocrisy.
The vast majoriry of manufacturing in China has always been done by Chinese companies. Goods we buy from Walmart aren’t made by Walmart factories in China, employing Chinese workers. Walmart finds the cheapest Chinese manufacturer of trays then orders their Great Value branded version, shipped straight from the factory to the Walmart distribution hub. Walmart is the middle man. We cut them. The existing employer of the Chinese worker making the trays remains unchanged. There’s no hypocrisy. We’re cutting the most profit-hungry middle man from the supply chain is all. We know how things work.
You are just parroting propaganda.
I’m sorry you think that, but I’m not the one with half-dozen accounts spamming China-bad all day, every day:
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