Chinese manufacturing labor isn’t just cheaper. It’s better.In China, there are no people who are too fat to work. The workers don’t storm off midshift, never to return to their job. You don’t have people who insist on being paid in cash so that they can keep their disability payments, while they do acrobatics on the factory floor that the non-disabled workers cannot do.
Chinese workers are much less likely to physically attack each other and their manager. They don’t take 30 minute bathroom breaks on company time. They don’t often quit because their out-of-state mother of their children discovered their new job and now receives 60% of their wages as child support. They don’t disappear because they’ve gone on meth benders. And they don’t fall asleep on a box midshift because their pay from yesterday got converted into pills.
And they can do their times tables. To manufacture, you need to be able to consistently and accurately multiply 7 times 9 and read in English, and a disturbingly large portion of the American workforce cannot do that.
Da bleibt kein Auge trocken.
Sadly, what I describe above are not theoretical situations. These are things that I have experienced or seen with my own eyes.Und das ist nur einer von 14 Aspekten, die er da beleuchtet.
Das ist alles so fraktal dumm und kaputt. Hier sehr schön auf den Punkt gebracht.
Many are saying that this tariff policy is the “end of globalization”. I don’t think so.Unless this policy is quickly changed, this is the end of America’s participation in globalization.
*mike drop* (via) (Danke, Holger)