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[–] DiscontentedMajority 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago (edited ago)
Chinese labor is still drastically cheaper than labor in the US. The problem is that it's becoming not cheap enough to offset the cost of shipping finished goods to the US. Especially if new taxes and tariffs come into play.
[–] Le_Squish 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Productivity, brah.
Chinese workers are cheap but they also produce less and are overwhelmingly low quality workers.
China also has the problem where Chinese people don't trust things made by Chinese people especially food products. The demand for American made goods is high.
It would be very profitable for those that want to sell in domestic markets in China so set up shop in the US.
[–] Scotcheggs ago (edited ago)
It's well known that Asian employees are far worse than westerners. You only need to visit a so called 4 star hotel in China to see how low the standards are. Even slumming it in a western hostel for 25 bucks a night would have higher standards. Also nothing is more grim when you call a company help line and a poo in the loo Indian answers the phone and tries to spazztically address your issue without having the intelligence to even grasp what your issue is after you explain it 5x over to them. Anything Asia will put me right off keeping business with a place. I'll even spend 2-4x more buying shoes made in my own country rather than some ching chong abyssal ant colony country because they are not to be trusted.