More than 160 workers have been rescued, according to local prosecutors.
  • blaue_Fledermaus
    12•2 days ago

    I’m from Brazil. It’s impressive how fast BYD cars have been multiplying in my city.

    • @[email protected]
      5•2 days ago

      I mean, it’s because they are cheap and decent. But I guess it’s impressive since other car makers have failed to do the same thing.

      Where I live, electric cars are much more expensive than fuel cars. We do have these Chinese low cost cars too though but they are probably not great for winter. I don’t trust things not to break.

      It’s like Teslas, also not known for their quality, despite their high price.

      If it’s one thing I want to have good quality, it’s my car, since my life can depend on it.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•16 hours ago

          Because they subsidized the technology and industry in China. If Apple bids out a contract to build a manufacturing plant in the U.S. and someone makes a bid that looks good, they take it. If it got halted because the company was using minors and paying illegal migrants under the table to build it, it is a terrible thing, but it wasn’t Apple that did those things, and in ruth I would say Apple may have grounds to sue for the impact it would have on their image. The company that made the bid and did illegal acts should not have done those things.

          Apple and BYD don’t construct manufacturing plants… They bid them out to companies that do. They should come down hard on those companies if they are using illegal practices to make cheaper bids to encourage companies to go with them. The biggest fault they would have is if they found out it was going on and didn’t bring it to authorities.

        • @[email protected]English
          5•2 days ago

          We have evidence now, but I could have told you this years ago. Cheap products have been the product of environmental and human rights abuses for a long, long time.

          • @[email protected]English
            2•2 days ago

            Oh, I’m well aware of that. The part that grabbed my attention is that it appeared these were migrant workers brought in to Brazil.

            Essentially the cheap Chinese factories are diversifying where they are located, but not how they staff them.