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Baffled: Japanese take apart BYD electric car and wonder: 'How can it be produced at such a low cost?'
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That's not why these are cheap and others cost more...they use slave labor basically for their workers. If you don't have to pay your workers much then you can drop the price that much more.
America uses slave labour too. At every opportunity they've paid minimum wage and when workers started unionising, they started outsourcing to places they could get away with employing people for less than minimum wage. This is all well documented, just for some reason it's fine when America does it.
Exporting our labor to another country with a lower COL is not the same as using actual slave labor of their own people. Let's not try and equate the two please. One is shitty, the other is a massive humanitarian rights issue.
American companies literally use the same Chinese slave labour. Example: workers jump off the roof of Apple's Foxconn plant. Sorry, I guess Apple is technically an Irish company?