Worked for a giant manufacturer, they move liability from the states to countries with the least oversight. By the time the issue is discovered by the new country $$$$$ millions have been saved from workman’s comp. claims. Almost all jobs with any hazards is in Mexico or other like countries.
The strategy (and I shit you not) is that the US government, starting with the Nixon administration, had hoped that, by helping China develop their economy to be more prosperous, the Chinese working class would start demanding more political freedoms.
The US legit believed that making the average Chinese citizen richer would make them want to protest the communist party and revolt against it.
Now, we have given pretty much all of our low-value manufacturing to China, and China has become so prosperous that they're starting to automate or export those same jobs to places like Africa and Indonesia.
Any signs of internal fracturing or unrest? Other than Hong Kong, not really.
We allowed entire regions of the US to rot away from deindustrialization based on a naive hope among the neoliberal top minds in Washington DC.
dannylofuz on June 23rd, 2020 at 14:00 UTC »
Worked for a giant manufacturer, they move liability from the states to countries with the least oversight. By the time the issue is discovered by the new country $$$$$ millions have been saved from workman’s comp. claims. Almost all jobs with any hazards is in Mexico or other like countries.
CurrentHelicopter on June 23rd, 2020 at 14:57 UTC »
The strategy (and I shit you not) is that the US government, starting with the Nixon administration, had hoped that, by helping China develop their economy to be more prosperous, the Chinese working class would start demanding more political freedoms.
The US legit believed that making the average Chinese citizen richer would make them want to protest the communist party and revolt against it.
Now, we have given pretty much all of our low-value manufacturing to China, and China has become so prosperous that they're starting to automate or export those same jobs to places like Africa and Indonesia.
Any signs of internal fracturing or unrest? Other than Hong Kong, not really.
We allowed entire regions of the US to rot away from deindustrialization based on a naive hope among the neoliberal top minds in Washington DC.
jar-jar-kinks on June 23rd, 2020 at 15:56 UTC »
American corporations move overseas to pay lower wages and taxes, and circumvent obstructive health and liability standards
Undocumented migrant workers are hired by manufacturers and farmers to do jobs that most Americans don't want to do
edit: maybe I'm thick, but I feel like people are disagreeing with me by using the points I made