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somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 days ago

Why is EVERYTHING made in china?

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Why is EVERYTHING made in china?

somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 days ago
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  • piskertariot@lemmy.world
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    Slave labour.

    Do you want to be paid $0.0001 per widget you produce 12hrs per day, 7 days a week? Because that’s how you get cheap things.

    The world found a place that had people that desperate.

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      This is just factually untrue. Real wages for the working class have increased substantially year over year for decades in the PRC. The reason why it’s cheaper is because the PRC has become that much better at producing goods.

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        wages for the working class have increased substantially

        So they’re up to $0.01 per widget? That is substantial!

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          Purchasing Power in 2022 was 25 times higher than 1978. This process is continuous. You need to turn off Fox News and actually look at what’s happening in China right now.

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      Eh. The “sweatshop” labour pretty much always pays better than staying on the subsistence farm. And might have better conditions.

      Were they desperate compared to Westerners? Sure. Is it bad to do business with desperate people? That’s pretty questionable.

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      I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. It’s well-known they use slave-labor concentration camps filled with Uighurs.

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        Xinjiang: A Report and Resource Compilation

        The PRC is not murdering, enslaving, nor sterilizing Uyghurs. It’s genuinely a complex situation, but you can absolutely rely on the west to uncritically report their paid propagandist and christian nationalist Adrian Zenz of the “Victims of Communism” state department propaganda outlet. The reason why the west keeps pushing this distortion of what’s actually going on in Xinjiang is because they wish to stoke political and civil instability, creating a wedge to force through economic liberalization and capitulation to US demands.

        The U.S. doesn’t give a shit about muslims, and are actively committing genocide in Palestine. There’s absolutely no reason to trust what the U.S. State Department says on the matter, especially when nearly all evidence circles back to testemonials (and fabrications!) from Adrian Zenz.

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        It’s well-known

        Previously:

        You can’t bring us evidence because there isn’t any.

        The US tried to foment division in China by funding and organizing Salafi terrorist into Xinjiang, and once its efforts failed, it made lemonade out of its lemon by concocting and promoting a genocide narrative.

        The only countries pushing this narrative are the “always the same map” imperial core countries, which just so happen to be largely the same ones supporting Israel’s genocide.

        Almost no predominantly-Muslim country buys the Uyghur genocide narrative, because they know it’s bullshit, because they talked to the Uyghurs themselves.
        https://twitter.com/un_hrc/status/1578003299827171330

        #HRC51 | Draft resolution A/HRC/51/L.6 on holding a debate on the situation of human rights in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of #China, was REJECTED.

        • The Uyghur Human Rights Project is a product of the National Endowment for Democracy, which is the American government’s main regime change NGO.
        • A Reddit AMA Claiming To Be A Uyghur Quickly Exposes A CIA Asset Slandering China
        • The Xinjiang Genocide Allegations Are Unjustified
        • Uyghur genocide allegations
        • American Debunks All Major Western Propaganda on Uyghurs and Xinjiang
        • US-Funded Uyghur Activists Train as Soldiers of Empire
        • The blueprint of regime change operations How regime change happens in the 21st century with your consent
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        Even if you believe in the Uyghur genocide claiming that all products made in China is made by them is just absurd.

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