• @antidote101
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    378 months ago

    Apparently when everything’s made in China, it gives China a bit of an advantage…

    … who’d have thought, except everyone who said so when the west started outsourcing all their manufacturing work there.

        • LanternEverywhere
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          28 months ago

          For sure, China is a manufacturing juggernaut, no question. They also have 4 times the population of the US. But in terms of raw numbers, absolutely China is the biggest manufacturer

        • @lightnegative
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          18 months ago

          Every time I go to buy something “Made in USA” from a hardware store, it’s measurements are all like 5/8ths of a freedom eagle.

          At least the Chinese stuff uses metric, even if it’s generally less robust

    • @800XL
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      118 months ago

      And every dly that goes by that companies send more shit there to be made blows my mind until you realize that corporations have no loyalty to the country in which they reside and stay only as long as the country subsidizes them and allows them to get away with paying no taxes.

    • @kerrigan778
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      38 months ago

      Also having a government which invests heavily in its infrastructure