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[+] -11 points 5 months ago (14 children)

You mean borderline slave labor? Because that's pretty much what Chinese manufacturing is.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    As someone who actually knows some Chinese nationals, no it isn't. What you are actually objecting to is Chinese people having jobs.

    Some of these jobs have dorms, which accounts for why there are so few people who are street homeless.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    Maybe if you are comparing it to the US cost of living? The average manufacturing job for tech companies in China is around 12k usd a year, while a middle class yearly income starts around 15k a year. So they are in the upper end of the working class.

    The basic cost of living is just extremely cheap compared to western countries. Although the wages are only 20-25% when compared to US manufacturing, the cost of basic necessities like housing and food are about 3x cheaper.

    It really matters what region you are talking about, tier 1 cities are quite a bit more expensive than tier 2 and 3, but still affordable compared to western nations.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    American capitalist create a chip shortage, china saves the day: china bad

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    CapitalistS. You still have to pluralize even if there happens to be an S nearby.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, you’re gonna have to take that up $4 trillion tech company, Apple. I am physically disabled, so I use the voice to text and you get what it gives you.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah, I know I’m not gonna go with that 1990s bullshit anymore. The middle class is stronger than the American middle class so I hope you’re not an American… because that would mean you occupy the same corporate dictatorship that I do. Suppressing free speech everywhere. Pushing half the country into poverty while china pulls theirs out? Yeah bro must really suck to live in China right now.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I have connects in China. Some Chinese have fixed salary work contracts and their money is allegedly deflating. I'm jelly, I had to warn people not to brag.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Deflating? Isn't that usually very alarming?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago*

    Not if your company is required by law to pay you a certain amount based on buying power, according to this guy I spoke to. Granted, this is stuff I'm learning secondhand from friends, I'm not a financial expert and they could very well be blowing smoke in order to brag on themselves.

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