• @RememberTheApollo_
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    4920 hours ago

    Oh, sure. Spend billions on moving factories to a xenophobic, undereducated, and burgeoning fascist society instead of expanding into more stable, emerging markets without an unstable fuckwit for a leader.

      • @Madison420
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        1719 hours ago

        Yeah because it was cheaper labor. The US does not have that level of cheap labor.

          • Echo Dot
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            516 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.

              • @Madison420
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                116 hours ago

                An hour of labor hasn’t bought a big Mac for about a decade iirc.

        • @[email protected]
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          -115 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.

          • @Madison420
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            213 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.